In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Joe Biden made a strong statement of Democratic Party priorities while challenging Republicans to support them. Biden highlighted issues like raising the debt ceiling, cutting taxes to help middle-class Americans, and protecting Social Security and Medicare. Republicans in the chamber did not respond well to the President's words, responding with jeers, heckling and shouting. Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy repeatedly tried to shush the GOP members, to no avail.

Biden seemed to welcome the engagement, standing firm in calling for Republican support on these issues. He even got the upper hand at one point, when he eloquently asked for an end to production of fentanyl and for better resources to protect our border – prompting Republicans to keep quiet. The midterm elections showed that Americans are largely uninterested in the performative outrage Republicans so often put on, yet the behavior on the floor of Congress at the S