Biden’s speech will reflect an uneasy new power alignment in Washington

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When President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday night

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he will face a challenge that also confronted each of his four immediate predecessors

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responding to an election that ended his party’s unified control of Congress

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Like Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W

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Bush and Bill Clinton all entered the White House with their party also controlling the House and Senate

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That initially allowed all of them to drive an aggressive legislative agenda

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In their first State of the Union after that defeat, each president

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