Former Freedom Caucus chair floats House GOP nixing State of the Union invite over Biden border policies
Conservative Rep. Scott Perry suggested that House Republicans rescind President Joe Biden's State of the Union invitation for March 7 over immigration and border policies.
"We need to use every single point of leverage," Perry said on Fox Business' "Mornings with Maria." "He comes at the invitation of Congress, and Republicans are in control of the House. There’s no reason that we need to invite him to get more propaganda."
Perry, the former head of the House Freedom Caucus, claimed allowing Biden to deliver the address would merely allow the president to "actually blame the American people for the crisis he’s caused.”
Biden plans to visit the southern border on Thursday, as congressional Republicans have stalled a bipartisan compromise on border security.
Speaker Mike Johnson invited Biden in January to deliver the annual address to Congress, selecting a date in March relatively late in the normal calendar now situated near a looming potential government shutdown.