Sen. Katie Britt attempts to clean up her misleading State of the Union response

Alexandra Marquez is a politics reporter for NBC News.

Alabama GOP Sen. Katie Britt on Sunday responded to allegations that her response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address was misleading. The criticism centers around a story Britt told about a victim of human trafficking, which she implied happened during Biden's tenure. Britt spoke in her Thursday night speech about visiting the U.S.-Mexico border in 2023 and speaking to this woman. “She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12.

Though Britt did not offer the victim's name in her speech Thursday, a spokesperson for her office told the Washington Post that she was referring to Karla Jacinto Romero, a trafficking victims' rights advocate who testified before Congress in 2015 about what happened to her as a girl. Britt's office did not respond to a request for comment from NBC News on Saturday. The White House shot back at the Republican senator, accusing Britt of relying on “debunked lies” to attack Biden.

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