Washington – President Donald Trump is expected to be in a joint speech to Congress on Tuesday night, expose their efforts to quickly reduce the size of the federal government so that critics warn about their authority and threaten the lasting damage.
The speech occurs when Trump is doing a strong break from the previous administration, both on international and national fronts. On Friday, Trump and Vice President JD Vance had a heated confrontation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the oval office, rocking international relations and causing concerns of critics that the White House is moving away from a democratic ally and is closer to Russia, an authoritarian adversary.
Tuesday’s speech, Trump’s first speech before the Congress of his second term, gives him the opportunity to further justify the shakes, both at home and abroad, legislators and the public, and to obtain a preview of what will come later.
The president plans to use the address to promote what he sees how the initial successes of his administration, while receiving the guests that the White House said he benefited from Trump’s first mandate, according to an administration official and a senior White House official.
The issue of Trump’s speech is “the renewal of the American dream,” said a senior administration official.
It is likely that the president focuses his comments on immigration, new tariffs and efforts of the Government’s efficiency department to reduce budgets and fire federal workers, as well as administration’s efforts to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal government, said a senior administration official to NBC News last week.
Elon Musk, who has headed Doge’s efforts despite not being the interim administrator of the initiative, will attend the speech, according to a White House official.
“There will be many surprises and many moments made for television,” said another administration official.
In his last joint speech to Congress, his discourse from the State of the State Union of 2020, Trump granted the presenter of the right -wing interview program, Rush Limbaugh, the Medal of Freedom, the highest civil honor in the country. (Limbaugh, 70, died a year later).
It is possible that Trump does not travel through the country to amplify his message in the days after the management, as is typical for the presidents, according to a White House official. The official said that the president and his team believe that he is achieving much of his White House agenda, adding that they felt comfortable with him explaining his message to the Americans of his hanger in the Oval office.
“The priority is to ensure that the businesses here in the White House are established,” said the official, added that the plans after address could change.
Instead, Vance will travel outside Washington to highlight the key points in the president’s speech, said a senior administration official. It will begin with a trip to the southern border on Wednesday, according to a spokesman for the vice president. It is expected that Vance tour a processing installation in Eagle Pass, Texas, becoming the tallest Trump administration official in visiting the border so far during Trump’s second mandate.
Vance played a key role in Friday’s combative meeting with Zelenskyy, an unprecedented public confrontation with an American ally that was later cheered by current Russian officials and Ex. The measure was criticized by the Democrats, and many Republicans have doubled the criticisms of the administration to Zelenskyy.
Senator Elissa Slotkin, from Michigan, will deliver the democratic response to the joint direction. The president’s opposite party generally selects someone considered as a rising political star to present the priorities and perspectives of the party on the administration. Slotkin won the competitive seat open in the Michigan Senate in November, surpassing Vice President Kamala Harris in her presidential offer.
Slotkin’s speech will be inclined in his security history as former CIA analyst, according to a source familiar with his speech, who said that his background gives him a unique perspective on the confrontation of the Oval office between Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy. The senator will also highlight a proactive economic vision and will discuss what the Democrats see how the way to follow, said the source.
Congress members also invite guests to joint presidential addresses in an effort to highlight specific issues.
The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., asked the Democratic Caucus to bring the guests who “have suffered under the policies of the Trump administration,” according to a spokesman. The spokesman said that Schumer planned to bring two Medicaid receptors, a child with spinal muscular atrophy, whose survival was accredited to a program of National Health Institutes and two federal workers fired.
The Trump Union state speech in 2020 echoed campaign speeches, promoting its economic and migration records only one month before the country stopped due to Covid. At the end of his comments, the then president of the house, Nancy Pelosi, started a copy of the president’s speech.
