Highlights from President Donald Trump’s 2025 joint address to Congress
By: The Associated Press
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President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to keep up his campaign of “swift and unrelenting action” in reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy in an unyielding address to Congress and the nation that left Democratic legislators to register their dissent with stone faces, placards calling out “lies,” and one legislator’s ejection.
What to know:
- Rep. Al Green asked to leave the chamber: Out of power, Democrats showed their dissent to Trump’s remarks with stone faces and placards with the word ‘lies’ and ‘save Medicaid’ on them. Texas Rep. Al Green was ejected from the House chamber after heckling Trump that he had “no mandate to cut Medicaid.”
- Sen. Elissa Slotkin delivers the Democrats’ response: Slotkin, a first-term Michigan senator, sought to push back on Trump’s points about the economy, Ukraine and the federal workforce, saying America could make change “without forgetting who we are as a country and as a democracy.”
- Tariffs spark economic uncertainty: Trump launched a trade war Tuesday against America’s three biggest trading partners, drawing immediate retaliation from Mexico, Canada and China and sending financial markets into a tailspin.
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