WASHINGTON (AP) — Oksana Markarova, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, and Frances Haugen, the former Facebook employee who exposed what the company may have known about damage caused by its social media platforms, will sit with Jill Biden for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, the White House said Tuesday.
Also sitting with the first lady are Patrick Gelsinger, the CEO of Intel Corp. INTC, -1.84%, and several people she met during the past year of traveling around the country on behalf of the Biden administration. They include a community college student-parent, a military spouse, a middle-school student, a nurse, a member of a Native American tribe and a labor-union member.
At least three congressional Democrats are skipping the highly ceremonial joint session on Tuesday night after recent positive tests for COVID-19. A number of Republicans, including Sen. Marco Rubio, have suggested they would not be in attendance because they didn’t have time for the required COVID test.
The guest list marks a big change from last year when Biden delivered a speech — not called a State of the Union address — to a joint session of Congress a few months after he took office in 2021.
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