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==== Response to 2024 State of the Union address ====
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?534120-1/republican-response-state-union-address Republican Response to the State of the Union Address, March 7, 2024], [[C-SPAN]]}}
On March 7, 2024, Britt gave the Republican [[response to the State of the Union address|response]] to President [[Joe Biden]]'s [[2024 State of the Union Address|State of the Union Address]], which he delivered earlier that night. She criticized Biden's policies on immigration and the economy, called Biden "dithering and diminished", and said that Republicans "strongly support continued nationwide access to in vitro fertilization".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pecorin |first1=Allison |title='Nightmare': Sen. Katie Britt paints bleak picture of America in Republican response to Biden |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/alabama-sen-katie-britt-responds-bidens-state-union/story?id=107912187|access-date=March 10, 2024 |work=
After blaming Biden for the increase of migrants at the border and saying that she had visited the border shortly after taking office, Britt mentioned a woman who had told her that she was "sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12". Britt said that "[w]e wouldn't be okay with this happening in a Third World country. This is the United States of America, and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it. President Biden's border policies are a disgrace." She appeared to imply that the woman had been abused recently in the U.S. because of Biden's policies.<ref name=Kessler>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/09/fact-check-katie-britt-sex-trafficking/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309185539/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/09/fact-check-katie-britt-sex-trafficking/|archive-date=March 9, 2024|url-status=live |last=Kessler|first=Glenn|title=Katie Britt's false linkage of a sex-trafficking case to Joe Biden|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=March 9, 2024|access-date=March 9, 2024}}</ref><ref name="decades">{{cite news |last=Pettus |first=Emily |title=Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as Republican attack on Biden border policy |url=https://apnews.com/article/katie-britt-mexico-border-sex-trafficking-f74c95d1f7e3e5b9a660d9efc51ab214 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |work=[[Associated Press]] |date=March 10, 2024}}</ref><ref name="recycle">{{Cite news |last=Picciotto |first=Rebecca |work=[[NBC New York]] |date=March 9, 2024 |title=Biden rebutter Sen. Britt blasted for recycling 20-year-old sex traffic story to attack border policy |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/biden-rebutter-sen-britt-blasted-for-recycling-20-year-old-sex-traffic-story-to-attack-border-policy/5209857/ |access-date=March 9, 2024}}</ref>
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