House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) criticized President Joe Biden’s Feb. 7 State of the Union address in a Fox & Friends interview, accusing the president of having deliberately misrepresented critical aspects of the Republican Party’s legislative agenda while failing to take responsibility for a failed border policy and an escalating fentanyl crisis driven by China.
McCarthy, who sat onstage behind the president throughout the address alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, described a highly partisan speech aimed at fomenting frustration on the part of GOP lawmakers in the audience, some of whom reacted with catcalls and cries of “liar” to those remarks concerning what Biden said are Republicans’ plans to sunset Social Security and Medicare.
