There is recent precedent for lawmakers skipping the annual address of a president from the opposing party.
won control of the House of Representatives during the midterm elections last November.
"I will not be attending Biden's State of the Union to listen to him lie about the damage he has caused to our country while the left-wing media and members of Congress applaud his lies," Miller wrote in the statement. President Joe Biden delivers his second State of the Union on March 1, 2022. Inset, Representative Mary Miller, an Illinois Republican. Miller pledged to boycott the president's 2023 State of the Union address over what she called his"lies" about immigration and energy.Instead, Miller plans to share her tickets with a colonel who retired from the military after declining to take the COVID-19 vaccination, she said.
is expected to provide the Republican response to the State of the Union, while Arizona Representative Juan Ciscomani will do so in Spanish.