Bono and Paul Pelosi will eat with Jill Biden following State of the Union

During Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Jill Biden will host Bono and Paul Pelosi in the first lady’s box. Her guests will be Americans who gained notoriety for their work on some of the most important causes that President Joe Biden is anticipated to champion in his speech.

These guests include the mother of Trye Nichols, a black man who died after being abused by police, and a Texas lady who almost died as a result of the harsh abortion laws in her state.

The Joining Forces Initiative of the first lady and the Cancer Moonshot are just two of the guests who are connected to Joe and Jill Biden’s key goals in the White House.

The varied guest list also include Americans who have benefitted from the administration’s legislative successes, such as the CHIPS Act, the American Rescue Plan, and its bipartisan infrastructure plan.

Jill Biden to host Bono and Paul Pelosi during State of the Union address

On the night of the State of the Union speech, the first lady’s box is the most conspicuous vantage point. It looks out over the House of Representatives’ well, where President Biden will give a speech outlining his achievements from the previous year and outlining his plans for the country’s future.

Additionally, multiple times throughout the address, the television cameras pan to it, and the president often gestures toward the visitor to put a human face on his ideas.

It is generally anticipated that President Biden’s address would serve as a preview of his reelection pitch. He has hinted that he would run for a second term even if he has not formally declared it.

According to a statement from the first lady’s office, Jill Biden’s guests “personify topics or themes to be addressed by the President in his speech or they symbolize the Biden-Harris Administration’s policies at work for the American people.”

Jill Biden requested Oksana Markarova, the ambassador of Ukraine, to sit in her box for the second consecutive year as a sign of solidarity for Ukraine. Doug Emhoff, Second Gentleman, will also be present.

On Tuesday night, RowVaughn and Rodney Wells will perform with the first lady.

Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man who was badly assaulted by many police officers during an alleged traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, is the stepson of the Tennessee couple and is the mother of Tyre.

After the beating, Nichols passed away.

After the gruesome footage of the beating was revealed, Vice President Biden appealed for nonviolent demonstrations. He’s talked to Nichol’s parents as well. He is anticipated to urge Congress to enact the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act at his State of the Union speech.

In his yearly message from the previous year, Biden demanded more money for the police.

The Wells first accepted Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford’s offer to attend the address; but, by sitting in the first lady’s box, they will have a more prominent position. Horsford is the head of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Brandon Tsay of California, who neutralized the gunman responsible for the horrific shooting at the Monterey Park Lunar New Year festivities on January 21, is seated next to the first lady. At the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, the shooter shot and murdered eleven people while injuring nine others. In the neighborhood of Alhambra, the gunman went to another dance club.

Tsay, a 26-year-old computer programmer whose family owns the dance studio, attacked the shooter in the foyer, took the pistol from him, and pursued him out. Tsay’s family owns the Lai Lai Ballroom and Studio. It is said that Tsay prevented a further tragedy.

The following weekend at the Alhambra Lunar New Year Festival, when Tsay was recognized for his acts, Democratic Rep. Judy Chu of California remarked, “The devastation would have been much much worse had it not been for Brandon Tsay.”

She said that while she had first asked Tsay to attend the State of the Union Address as a guest, he was ultimately invited by the president.

Chu said to Tsay, “I can’t believe you rejected me for the presidency.”

After the shootings, Biden contacted Tsay to thank him for his “act of extraordinary heroism.”

Austin, Texas resident Amanda Zurawski will be sitting next to Jill Biden. When her water broke, she was 18 weeks along. However, physicians were hesitant to assist her because they were worried that giving her the necessary care would violate Texas’s prohibition on abortion. The nation’s harshest rule forbids abortion treatment unless a woman’s life is in danger.

She would need to be quite ill for medical help or miscarry on her own, according to that.

Before she and her husband Josh were able to conceive their baby daughter, they underwent 18 months of fertility treatments.

She was sent home with instructions to return if she showed symptoms of a potentially fatal illness, which she did three days after being discharged. Due to the delay in starting treatment, Zurawski developed sepsis and came dangerously close to dying. She still has medical issues as a result of the delay.

She and Josh will attend the president’s speech in the House chamber.

After Roe v. Wade was overruled by the Supreme Court, Democrats turned to the abortion debate to energize voters for the 2022 midterm elections.

Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, will also be sitting next to the first lady. An assailant stormed into the Pelosis’ San Francisco home seeking for the then-speaker, and he is now recuperating after being struck with a hammer.

David DePape said that his assault was motivated by politics and made no apologies for his conduct. He is being prosecuted for crimes.

Paul Pelosi had brain surgery and has gradually made a comeback to public life. He previously went to the president’s speech as his wife’s guest. When Nancy Pelosi resigned from her position as party leader, she lost the luxury of having her own box for visitors.

Due to his efforts in the battle against HIV/AIDS, Bono has been asked to sit alongside the first lady. The Dublin-born U2 frontman also worked to foster bipartisan support for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which was first proposed by President George W. Bush and supported by then-Senator Joe Biden.

President Biden often boasts about his Irish heritage and is proud of it.

When U2 was recognized by the Kennedy Center at its annual Honors presentation in December, the Bidens got to see the performer.

At the time, President Biden credited U2 with changing the globe because “music can change the world because it can change individuals.” The world has been altered by U2 for more than 40 years. Songs that advocate for civil rights, worker solidarity, and the pursuit of peace. Songs about family and love. concerts with the goal of eradicating poverty and sickness.

We must keep in mind that, as their song says, “We’re one, but we’re not the same,” at a time when there is much too much hatred, rage, and division in America and, quite honestly, over the globe. He answered, “We get to carry each other.

Ruth Cohen of Rockville, Maryland, a Holocaust survivor and volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial, will also be in the first lady’s box. She and her family were evicted from their house during World War II, and Cohen was taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In 1945, she was freed from the concentration camp.

She is Emhoff’s special guest; on his six-day tour to Europe to highlight the Biden administration’s commitment to combating anti-Semitism, he visited Auschwitz-Birkenau on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

In addition, Maurice and Kandice Barron from New York, whose three-year-old daughter Ava overcame a rare kind of pediatric cancer, will be hosted by Jill Biden. For the Cancer Moonshot, the first couple’s campaign to cut cancer mortality rates by at least 50% over the next 25 years, Maurice Barron wrote to President Biden to express his gratitude.

Additionally, breast cancer survivor Darlene Gaffney of North Charleston, South Carolina, will be joining them. In March 2015, she received a stage 2 breast cancer diagnosis.

The Bidens began the Cancer Moonshot last year, and it just marked its first anniversary. When Joe Biden served as vice president, it was first established.

For the Bidens, who lost their son Beau to brain cancer in 2015, it’s a close-to-home cause.

Lynette Bonar, a Navajo woman from Arizona, is also seated in the first lady’s box. She was a former U.S. Army medic and sergeant. Jill Biden visited Bonar to commemorate the first cancer clinic opening on a Native American reserve in 2019.

Deanna Branch, a visitor from Wisconsin, spoke with Vice President Harris about her family’s exposure to lead. As a consequence of her son Aidan’s fight with lead poisoning brought on by contaminated drinking water, she is addressing the problem in her neighborhood.

The government is trying to replace all lead service lines in America within the next ten years in accordance with the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Children who provide care for their aging parents, sometimes known as Hidden Helpers, are a topic that is dear to the first lady, and Kristin Christensen and her daughter Avarie Kollmar from Seattle are part of this movement.

Christensen is a mother of three and a caregiver for her retired from the Navy due to injuries sustained in war spouse. Avarie helps with her father’s care as well. In 2022, during a Joining Forces event in favor of Hidden Helpers, Christensen and Kollmar spoke with the first lady about their experiences.

Pennsylvanian Mitzi Colin Lopez is a DREAMER. When she was just three years old, her parents took her from Mexico to the United States. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was granted to her in 2015, and she is a proponent of all-encompassing immigration reform. In 2021, she spoke with President Biden on her experiences.

Through a program supported by President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, Maurice “Dion” Dykes of Knoxville, Tennessee, is trying to become a teacher. In 2022, Jill Biden, a professor at a small college in Northern Virginia, ran across him while traveling through Tennessee.

Kate Foley, from Rolling Meadows, Illinois, is a computer-integrated manufacturing student in the 10th grade at Rolling Meadows High School, a public high school that helps students become ready for the workforce by forming connections with local businesses.

In 2022, Jill Biden visited the school where she first met Foley.

Courtney Griffin, Doug Griffin’s 20-year-old daughter, died in 2014 after a fentanyl overdose in New Hampshire. He is assisting other local families struggling with addiction.

The CDC estimates that 107,375 Americans died from drug overdoses and drug poisonings in the year that ended in January 2022.

Overdose fatalities have increased at a historic rate, particularly in New Hampshire.

At the Brent Spence Bridge in Covington, Kentucky, union iron worker Saria Gwin-Maye of Cincinnati, Ohio, introduced Biden. At the political gathering, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell spoke on infrastructure alongside the president.

Small company entrepreneur Jacki Liszak, from Fort Myers, Florida, also serves as president of the Fort Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce. She first came into contact with the Bidens in 2022 when they examined Hurricane Ian’s storm damage.

Senior mechanical engineering student at Ohio State University, Harry Miller is from Ohio. He was a former football player who stated in 2022 that he would no longer participate in student athletics in order to prioritize his mental health. Since then, he has turned into a champion for the cause.

The Massachusetts couple Gina and Heidi Nortonsmith were the plaintiffs in the case Goodridge v. MA Dept. of Public Health, which resulted in their state being the first in the US to formally recognize same-sex unions. On the first day that same-sex marriage licenses were released in Massachusetts in 2004, they wedded to commemorate the occasion.

The largest client of Paul Sarzoza’s cleaning business, which is based in Phoenix, is the semiconductor manufacturer TSMC. Under Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act, the Taiwan-based business is growing in the US.


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