Published 06:49 IST, February 5th 2020
US President Donald Trump set to deliver State of the Union address amid impeachment trial
The address comes at a time when the impeachment trial is going on in the Senate and the result of the trial set to be announced on Wednesday
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United States President Donald Trump is set to deliver his annual State of Union (SOTU) dress on Tuesday (local time). dress comes at a time when impeachment trial is going on in Senate.
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SOTU on Tuesday
President Trump is likely to spend much of speech highlighting ecomy’s strength, including low employment rate, stressing how it has helped blue-collar workers and middle class. A focus will be new tre agreements he has negotiated, including his phase-one deal with China and United States-Mexico-Cana agreement he signed last week.
President has also invited multiple guests including a mor who lost her Army husband to a roside bomb in Iraq, a man whose bror was killed by someone White House believes should have been deported rar than released from jail and a 2-year-old girl born at 21 weeks.
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President might also talk about his government's action of eliminating ISIS Chief and also Iranian military's Qasem Soleimani, which also le to serious geo-political crisis, including a Ukrainian plane being accidentally shot down by Iran government in retaliation.
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President's dress also comes a day after results of Iowa caucus, which saw Democratic party's results being delayed by almost 24 hours because of a technical error. early precincts showed Pete Buttigieg leing Democrats. President tweeted regarding confusion caused in anuncement of results and said that it was a reflection of party's incompetence.
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dress will be final SOTU before Presidential elections which are scheduled to be held later this year.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and few or Democrats will be skipping dress as a mark of protest. AOC anunced that she will be skipping dress in a Tweet a few hours before dress. Ayanna Pressley, Al Green, Hank Johnson, etc are among or Democrats who said y will t be attending SOTU dress.
(Im credits: AP)
06:49 IST, February 5th 2020