WASHINGTON  – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) issued the following statement after President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress:

“From gas to groceries, the price of everything is skyrocketing after Democrats’ spending binge. Illegal migrants are overwhelming our sovereign border by the millions. The Administration’s historic failures in Afghanistan and Russia’s deadly invasion of Ukraine are not the hallmarks of competent leadership.

“America needs strong leadership now. The President should begin working with Republicans and reasonable people in his own party without delay. If he continues to surrender his agenda to the far left, the state of the union will continue to suffer.”  

# # #