Joe Biden enters House chamber for joint session of Congress

Joe Biden fist bumped US lawmakers as he entered the House chamber for to address a joint session of Congress.

In his address Mr Biden will press his colleagues to prove that “democracy still works” in his address to a joint session of Congress, as he outlines an ambitious domestic policy agenda following his first 100 days in office.

He will argue that his administration inherited a “nation in crisis” recovering from the coronavirus pandemic and a deadly Capitol assault that amounted to “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.”