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| Obama to recast agenda to focus |
| Obama to recast agenda to focus on jobs, deficit
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 27-January-2010
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After his worst political setback since he took office a year ago, President Barack Obama will vow to revive US job growth and tame skyrocketing budget deficits in a crucial speech on Wednesday.
Obama's annual State of the Union address to Congress at 9 p.m. on Wednesday comes just over a week after his Democratic Party suffered the loss of a pivotal Senate seat in Massachusetts.
His feistier side is likely to be on display as he emphasises populist themes like slapping new curbs on Wall Street and offering tax credits to struggling middle-class families.
There will also be signs of a recalibration by Obama, who promised to bring wholesale change to Washington but now faces a starkly different political reality. That has imperiled his legislative agenda of overhauling the healthcare system and fighting climate change.
Obama will need to chart a way forward on those efforts, which have been left in tatters now that Democrats no longer hold a "supermajority" of 60 votes in the Senate that would avoid Republican procedural hurdles.
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