Republicans try and STOP Biden holding his State of the Union address because he hasn't submitted his budget for 2025 - even though their spending plan for 2024 is FOUR MONTHS late!

As President Biden continues the tradition of blowing past budget deadlines for 2025, Republicans in Congress are trying to force the president to submit his plan before he gives his yearly address to Congress.

President Biden was supposed to submit his budget plan and national security policy proposals on February 5, but that submission is almost always delayed until March. 

The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 stipulates that a president must submit his budget request to Congress by the first Monday in February. The National Security Act of 1947 requires he submit a national security proposal to kick off the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) process the same day. 

The SUBMIT IT Act, released earlier this month, would ban Congress from inviting the president to address a joint session until he's submitted both plans. The bill would not kick in until 2025. 

The SUBMIT IT Act, led by Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Rep, Buddy Carter, R-Ga., would ban Congress from inviting the president to address a joint session until he's submitted both plans. The bill would not kick in until 2025.

The president's budget and national security requests are not going to become law - they merely serve as guidelines for Congress to draw up spending and defense legislation. Republicans in Congress are likely to give little weight to Biden's proposals. 

'The President has a duty to submit an annual budget and National Security Strategy. If the President, regardless of political party, does not get these vital documents to the legislature in a timely manner, then he or she has no business addressing Congress,' Carter said in a statement. 

'Actions speak louder than words, folks, and Biden’s budget is late once again,' said Ernst. 'If the President is going to be allowed the opportunity to address Congress and the entire nation, he should actually have a plan in place.'

Biden's budgets over the past three years have been 115, 49, and 31 days late. At least the previous four presidents - Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton - all blew through budget deadlines as well. 

President Biden was supposed to submit his budget plan and national security policy proposals on February 5, but that submission is almost always delayed until March

As they demand an on-time budget from the president for 2025, Congress still has not passed long-term legislation to fund the government in fiscal year 2024, which began four months ago.

They've passed three stopgap spending bills to kick the deadline down the road, one of which expires on Friday. 

March 1 is the deadline for Congress to fund four of 12 agencies of government. They need to pass legislation to fund the other eight agencies by March 8. 

With no clear path forward, prospects of a government shutdown loom large. 

Biden has invited Congress 'Big Four' leaders, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY., House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.,  to the White House on Monday. 

Congressional leaders had hoped to release the text for the first four spending bills, Agriculture, Energy and Water, MilCon-Va and Transportation-HUD, to expire on Sunday night, but that has not yet happened.