According to the details, around 200 people will be receiving invitations to President’s address on Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress. As the Biden administration is taking strict precautions, therefore they decided to restrict the total number of people to meet social distancing guidelines.
Instead of 1,600 people crowded into a House chamber for a regular State of the Union address, just 200 people will be attending Biden’s first marquee event before Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday.
“I will not be attending, and one of the reasons why is the ticket numbers have been really limited; they’re making people sit in the gallery,” Florida senator Marco Rubio told Fox and Friends on Tuesday.
The Florida senator also called out inconsistencies with the enforcement of coronavirus restrictions at the Capitol, dubbing it “silly season.”
“It’s interesting — when it came to coming together to impeach Donald Trump for the second time after he was out of office, they put 100 senators in the same room sitting just inches apart for hours at a time over five or six days,” Rubio said.
“Apparently COVID was not an issue then. But now, of course, for something like this we can’t have that many people in the room sitting next to each other. So it’s kind of silly season here,” he added.