Outage of U.S. Government Websites During Biden's Speech

Several U.S. government websites experienced outages coinciding with President Joe Biden's State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress at the Capitol. The websites of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Secret Service displayed a message of "technical difficulties" for 20 minutes on Thursday evening. No specific cause for the service interruption was provided, but officials from the Department of Homeland Security stated that it did not appear to be malicious.