Khanna, Massie to sit together during Trump’s State of the Union
Republicans and Democrats generally sit with members of their own party during the State of the Union.
Gregory Svirnovskiy
02/24/2026, 4:38pm ET
Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) — the bipartisan pair who bonded amid an effort to pressure the Justice Department to release the Epstein files — will sit alongside one another during Trump’s address Tuesday evening.
Republicans and Democrats generally sit with members of their own party during the State of the Union, but Khanna and Massie have forged an unlikely friendship amid their push for transparency on the deceased sex offender’s political and financial ties.
“We text back and forth all the time. I will often see him on the House floor, pick up the phone and call him,” Khanna said of his GOP colleague last year. “Obviously, we come from different ideological perspectives, but there are areas where we have agreement in making sure that we’re preventing wars of choice overseas and transparency.”
In a statement, Khanna said the pair is “sitting together to show support for the brave survivors who will be there tonight and to send a message to the Epstein class.”
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