Overview
- House Speaker Mike Johnson said he expects the address to occur the week of Feb. 24, though the schedule is not yet official.
- He noted that alternative dates are still under review and that the timing matches a week when Congress is in session.
- Johnson said that late February is the White House’s preferred window for the speech.
- This would be President Trump’s first formal State of the Union of his second term, following last year’s non-SOTU joint session that drew Democratic walkouts and an interruption by Rep. Al Green.
- The traditional formal invitation from the House speaker has not been issued yet, as planning continues in a politically tense environment with a narrow GOP majority and policy questions such as expired ACA tax credits.