Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Friday called on President Obama to offer a bipartisan agenda in his State of the Union address next week.
Obama is scheduled to deliver his agenda to Congress on Tuesday, which McConnell said “can be a new day” if the president offers proposals that “correspond to the message voters delivered in November.”
This will be Obama’s first State of the Union address before a GOP-led Congress, although the House has been in Republican hands since 2011.
Republicans swept the congressional elections, taking the majority in the Senate for the first time since 2006.
While both parties have since promised to work together, the legislative year has so far brought nothing but division, with Obama promising to veto a string of GOP bills, including one that would allow the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Obama is now planning to pitch a 7 percent increase in federal 2016 spending, which is likely to be a non-starter with a GOP determined to reduce the size of the budget.
McConnell said called for Obama “to cooperate with Congress to enact a different and better reform agenda for the middle class.”
