Biden to Deliver State of the Union Address on March 7

President Biden will deliver his third State of the Union address on March 7, an opportunity to detail his vision of the nation amid a presidential campaign that the White House has described as a test of democracy.

In a letter on Saturday morning, Speaker Mike Johnson officially invited Mr. Biden to deliver the constitutionally mandated speech to a joint session of Congress during “this moment of great challenge for our country.”

“Looking forward to it, Mr. Speaker,” Mr. Biden said in a Saturday afternoon post on X, the social media platform. March is unusually late for a State of the Union address, which is typically broadcast nationwide; Mr. Biden’s last one fell on Feb. 7.

The speech will come at a delicate time for Mr. Biden, after a pair of deadlines on Jan. 19 and Feb. 2 to pass packages that would fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal year 2024 and prevent a shutdown.

Congressional negotiators have yet to agree on even the most basic details of a budget — though leaders have signaled they are optimistic about being able to agree on its overall size, at least, in the coming days.

Mr. Johnson is facing pressure from hard-line members of his party who have threatened to block bills to fund the federal government unless the Biden administration sharply cracks down on migration across the U.S.-Mexico border — an issue that is one of the more glaring crises facing the White House.

The invitation also comes amid high-stakes negotiations among the White House and Democrats and Republicans in Congress over aid for Ukraine and Israel that has become a signature piece of Mr. Biden’s foreign policy agenda. Republicans have also refused to approve the foreign aid without immigration restrictions. Mr. Biden last month