The president's State of the Union address is scheduled to start at 9 p.m. ET, and will be carried live over several NBCUniversal News Group properties, including Nbcnews.com.

NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC News NOW and Noticias Telemundo will feature live coverage and real-time analysis of the address, Biden's second formal State of the Union and his first before a divided Congress.

Online, the NBCNews.com live blog will stream the address while featuring real-time news, analysis and fact-checking.

NBC News' special coverage will be led by "Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt and "TODAY" co-anchor and NBC News chief legal correspondent Savannah Guthrie beginning at 9 p.m. ET.

MSNBC is beginning special coverage at 8 p.m. ET, led by Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid and Nicolle Wallace. 

NBC News NOW anchors Tom Llamas and Hallie Jackson will also host special coverage at 8 p.m. ET.

CNBC.com will live stream the State of the Union address and host a live blog, while Julio Vaqueiro will lead Noticias Telemundo’s coverage at 9 p.m. ET.

The address is also being streamed live on the White House's website, which will include an American Sign Language translator.

The president will highlight the need for "effective, accountable policing" in his address, and will again urge Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, the White House said Tuesday.

In a release, the White House said the police reform bill — which failed to pass the Senate last year — would "advance accountability, transparency, and public trust in law enforcement. Real change at the state and local level requires congressional action."

Sen. Tim Scott, R.-S.C., who has been a lead Republican negotiator for police reform, said in a series of tweets last week that discussions about resurrecting the bill are “a nonstarter.”

Biden will also urge action on his "Safer America" plan, which would fund 100,000 additional police officers with enhanced training, help clear court backlogs, pay for de-escalation training and invest in crime prevention programs.

He'll also again urge Congress to tackle gun violence. "The president is not going to stop until Congress requires background checks for all guns sales, requires safe storage of firearms, and bans assault weapons and high-capacity weapons — weapons of war that have no place in our communities," the White House release said.

Biden will use his address to call on Congress to cap insulin prices at $35 a month for all Americans, the White House said Monday.

The president sought to impose a universal insulin price cap as part of last year's Inflation Reduction Act, but Republicans successfully scaled back the measure to affect only Medicare beneficiaries. That policy will go into effect this year. In tonight's address, Biden will pressure Congress to expand the measure to the more than 21 million people with diabetes who are not on Medicare.

"The president will call on Congress to extend this common-sense, life-saving protection to all Americans, not just people with Medicare," the White House said.

Democrats argue that the measure is broadly popular, though it faces a slim chance of passing a Republican-controlled House.

In the hours before Biden delivers his address, White House aides sought to drive home the message that he wants to work with Congress in a cooperative, bipartisan spirit.  

Trouble is, it may not exist.

Yes, from Capitol Hill to the White House, everyone wants to cure cancer, end opioid addiction, and help veterans — goals the presidents will describe in tonight’s speech. But the temptation to demean the other party is so pronounced that lofty ambitions often are drowned out by the intramural bickering.

Consider the events of this morning. Even as Biden administration officials laid out what the president calls his “unity” agenda, disunity reigned. On Capitol Hill, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, held a hearing devoted to illegal border crossings. 

“Make no mistake, the state of our border is in crisis,” Comer said. He added, “Starting on his first day in office, President Biden signaled to the world our borders were open. Open to criminals, human traffickers and drug traffickers."

Anticipating the attack, the White House sought to discredit it in advance. As Biden administration aides opened a conference call to brief the press on pieces of the Biden agenda they hope will win bipartisan backing, other White House aides blasted out a memo attacking the Republican-run border hearing.

“It is clear that House Republicans are more interested in staging political stunts than on rolling up their sleeves to work with President Biden and Democrats in Congress on legislation to strengthen border security and fix our immigration system that has needed repair for decades,” wrote Ian Sams, a special assistant to the president.

The ill will in Washington is one reason that some critics believe the State of the Union address has lost its relevance. It doesn’t capture or reflect what’s happening day to day either in the capital or the nation more broadly. “It has felt increasingly rote, often exceedingly empty and removed from the reality of our national and political life,” said Jeff Shesol, a speechwriter in Bill Clinton’s White House.

Biden will use his speech before Congress to announce increased funding for mental health programs and to urge lawmakers to ban online advertising targeting children and impose limits on data collection.

At last year's State of the Union, Biden debuted his four-pronged "unity agenda," which aimed in part to tackle the mental health crisis. Ahead of Tuesday's address, his administration touted its efforts to address rising rates of anxiety and depression, including expanding behavioral health clinics, investing in the 988 suicide prevention hotline and minimizing social media's harms to young people.

At this year's address, Biden will announce increased funding to recruit diverse mental health professionals and to expand the crisis care workforce. Additionally, he will preview an investment of more than $280 million in grants to increase the number of mental health professionals in schools.

This spring, the administration will propose new rules to ensure that mental health providers are being paid on par with other health professionals and that insurance plans are not imposing barriers to mental health care, the White House said Tuesday. The White House noted that the number of children and adolescents with anxiety and depression has risen around 30 percent since 2016. Forty percent of American adults report symptoms of anxiety and depression.

The president tonight is set to highlight progress that's been made since he and first lady Jill Biden last year rebooted a federal cancer-fighting initiative known as the “Cancer Moonshot," which he first launched in 2016 as vice president following his son Beau's death from brain cancer.

The “Cancer Moonshot” has announced nearly 30 new federal programs, policies and resources over the past year, according to the White House.

In his State of the Union address, Biden will call on Congress to reauthorize the National Cancer Act that set up the National Cancer Institute 52 years ago. The reauthorization of the act aims to update the nation’s cancer research and care systems. The president will also highlight his administration’s plans to take steps to ensure patient navigation services are covered benefits for those with cancer, to take measures to prevent more people from smoking in the first place and provide support for Americans who want to quit.

Ahead of the State of the Union, the White House touted the work it has accomplished so far for veterans while laying out plans to increase job training and mental health services.

In a release ahead of Tuesday's speech, the administration said the Department of Veterans Affairs had processed a record 1.7 million veteran claims in 2022 while delivering $128 billion in earned benefits to 6.1 million veterans and survivors.

The White House said both the VA and Defense Department reported suicide rates among veterans had declined in the past year, and said it plans to build on those decreases by expanding programs across the country, including one focusing on veterans who are at particular risk.

The administration is also planning to expand rent support for low-income veterans while strengthening job training programs, initiatives the president plans on addressing in his speech as part of his unity agenda, the White House said.