The Latest: Trump addresses Congress following his tumultuous first weeks in office

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : " Trump says tariffs make Americans rich, while economists say his taxes make people poorer "Tariffs are about making America rich again and making America great again," Trump said.
74% : Every time Trump boasts of his accomplishments, they hold up the signs.
70% : Now, Trump is using Biden's line to suggest that his return to the presidency means his vision of America is back.
68% : Trump claims responsibility for a rise in Army recruitment that preceded his presidency Trump has repeatedly claimed that the Army had its best recruiting in January, suggesting that the turnaround is tied to his time in office.
67% : Trump wants to reduce childhood cancer Trump said that driving down childhood cancer rates and studying autism cases in the U.S. will be a top priority for his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine and environmental advocate who is lobbying to redesign the U.S. food supply.
66% : Here's the latest: Trump sets record for longest address to a joint session of Congress Trump has set a record for the longest address to a joint session of Congress.
66% : Trump borrows from Biden "America is back.
64% : Trump concludes his speech "The golden age of America has only just begun," he told Congress as he finished his speech after speaking for nearly 100 minutes.
62% : Other guests of Trump and First Lady Melania Trump received scattered seated applause from Democrats as well.
61% : "The death of this beautiful 12-year-old girl and the agony of her mother and family touched our entire nation greatly," Trump said.
61% : "For $5 million, we will allow the most successful job creating people from all over the world to buy a path to U.S. citizenship," Trump said.
60% : Trump wants the United States to start building more large ocean-going vessels.
60% : Trump also highlighted his moves to open up areas in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling.
59% : There was a fear among allies, Biden said, that Trump could return.
57% : Trump echoes campaign rhetoric with 'law and order' message "As we reclaim our sovereignty, we must also bring back law and order to our cities and towns," he said.
56% : Republicans cheer on Musk Multibillionaire Elon Musk stood at Trump's invocation of his Department of Government Efficiency.
56% : Democrats tune out, Republicans tune in Some Democrats are quietly chatting with each other as Trump delivers his remarks.
56% : 'America is back,' Trump says Trump has begun his joint congressional address to "USA!
55% : She was in the audience Tuesday as Trump gave his address.
54% : Since his first term in office, Trump has expressed interest in acquiring Greenland, which is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, a longtime U.S. ally and a founding member of NATO.
54% : But at the same time, Democrats pointed to Elon Musk, who is heading up the Department of Government Efficiency.
53% : "We've had serious discussions with Russia and have received strong signals that they are ready for peace," Trump said.
53% : " Trump started his address by taking a line from his predecessor in the White House, Joe Biden.
52% : at Trump before police escorted him from the chamber.
52% : Republicans greet Trump with chants of 'USA!
50% : "Our goal is to get toxins out of our environment, poisons out of our food supply and keep our children healthy and strong," Trump said.
50% : Republicans erupt in applause, Democrats don't move as Trump enters The Republican side of the House chamber was on their feet, whistling and applauding as Trump's entrance was announced.
49% : Trump wants an office of shipbuilding, but he gave few details "I am announcing tonight that we will create a new office of shipbuilding in the White House and offer special tax incentives to bring this industry home to America," he said.
49% : Child who overcame cancer sworn in as honorary Secret Service member More than a dozen Democrats joined Republicans in a standing ovation for a guest of Trump, a child diagnosed with cancer who Trump said aspires to become a police officer.
49% : " Trump is banking on the idea that taxing imports is the road to riches for the United States.
49% : At least 24 states have already passed similar laws and a federal version sputtered this week in the U.S. Senate.
48% : Speaking of Jocelyn's love of animals, Trump said he decided to rename the wildlife refuge near her Houston home for her.
47% : Trump says, 'We need Greenland' Trump said the U.S. supports Greenland's right to determine its own future but would "welcome" the country into the United States for national security -- and to make them rich, he claims.
47% : Trump brags about gender policy "I signed an order making it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female," he said.
45% : However, GOP lawmakers rose in a standing ovation when Trump told them that Ukraine was showing it was ready to negotiate a peace deal.
45% : One Republican shouted, "MAHA baby!" Democrats invoke Trump's Jan. 6 pardons as he talks about 'law and order' Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas., first shouted "January 6th" as Trump recounted his plans for combatting crime throughout the country.
45% : Most economists say Trump's tariffs would hurt the country, as they're tax increases that could raise the costs of goods in ways that could also harm economic growth.
45% : " Laying out more details on how he plans to stimulate the farming economy, Trump argued that increasing U.S. tariffs on agriculture products from abroad would protect domestic producers at home while acknowledging, "It may be a little bit of an adjustment period.
45% : It lists 3.6 million people from ages 110 to 119." The databases may list those people, but that does not mean they are getting paid benefits, as Trump implied.
43% : " Trump announced DJ would be sworn in by his new Secret Service director as a member of the force.
43% : Trump promised that come April 2, reciprocal tariffs will be imposed for most of the country's trading partners.
42% : Trump wants to 'reclaim' the Panama Canal Trump gave a shoutout to Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, as the president detailed his plans to "reclaim" the Panama Canal.
42% : " Democrats applaud Trump's acknowledgement of US aid for Ukraine It was the only line from Trump's speech that drew more applause from Democrats than Republicans, yet Democrats applauded as Trump acknowledged that the U.S. has sent billions of dollars in military aid for Ukraine.
40% : When the Yale University Budget Lab looked at the tariffs that Trump imposed Tuesday on Canada, Mexico and China, it found that inflation would increase a full percentage point, growth would fall by half a percentage point and the average household would lose about $1,600 in disposable income.
40% : This means that some entries with missing or incomplete birthdates will default to a reference point of more than 150 years ago. Republicans applaud, Democrats point to Musk at Trump line on unelected bureaucrats Republicans jumped to their feet in applause as Trump told them "the days of unelected bureaucrats are over."
38% : Trump suggests that the impact on inflation would be minimal.
38% : Trump promises reciprocal tariffs are coming soon "Other countries have used tariffs against us for decades, and now it's our turn to start using them against those other countries," he said.
38% : "From now on, schools will kick the men off the girls team or they will lose all federal funding," Trump said during his speech.
38% : Trump said on his Truth Social platform that there were "8,326 apprehensions of illegals by Border Patrol at the U.S. - Mexico Border" in February.
38% : They were seated and mostly faced forward as Trump entered.
37% : 'I received an important letter' Trump recited a letter he received earlier Tuesday from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, saying that the wartime president wants to come back to the table after an explosive Oval Office meeting last week broke down negotiations for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
35% : Nungaray's mother campaigned for Trump.
35% : Green shouted, "You have no mandate to cut Medicaid!"
33% : They would have to pay taxes in the U.S., Trump said.
32% : Trump's order actually states that there are only two immutable sexes, and it was one of a series Trump has signed that target the rights of transgender people.
31% : Democrats then went largely silent as Trump discussed his health policies.
31% : Trump pardoned around 1,500 rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, in a bid to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
30% : Trump again invokes Springfield and Aurora "Beautiful towns like Aurora, Colorado, and Springfield, Ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like no one's ever seen before," Trump said.
30% : At least a dozen Democrats joined in the repeated chant as Trump discussed the need to crack down on violent criminals.
29% : Trump says tariffs will help farmers, but farmers brace for uncertainty Trump said farmers need to "bear with me again" as he imposes tariffs.
27% : Trump says his government must move quickly to lower egg prices Trump talked about the price of eggs and other key staples at grocery stores, where prices have remained stubbornly high due to inflation.
27% : 'How did that work out' Trump said: "We've ended weaponized government where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent like me.
26% : Congress passed and Trump signed into law a bill bearing her name as his first piece of legislation in his second term.
25% : How did that work out?" Trump is gloating about having survived, without any meaningful accountability, four different criminal prosecutions -- only one of which went to trial.
25% : USA!' Republicans were boisterous as Trump stepped to the lectern in the House.
24% : " Trump has long promoted a tough-on-crime agenda and sought to paint Democratic-led cities as besieged by violence, despite statistics showing a downward trend in violent crime after a spike during the coronavirus pandemic.
24% : Trump says he's stamped out diversity and inclusion initiatives nationwide Trump said his administration has rushed to ban diversity and inclusion programs in the federal government and dismiss workers charged with advancing such efforts.
23% : "Wouldn't that be beautiful?" Arrest and extradition in connection with Afghanistan attack Trump says the U.S. government is extraditing a suspect in the deadly Abbey Gate bombing in the final days of the Afghanistan withdrawal that killed 13 American servicemembers.
23% : Trump has already used executive actions to roll back a series of Biden administration policies promoting transgender rights, and he has vowed to stamp out "gender ideology.
22% : Trump has made similar threats for weeks but said he didn't want to make the announcement on April 1 because of April Fool's Day.
22% : Democrats remained seated as Trump said it, some scowling.
21% : Trump says Democrats will pay a price for opposing his tax cuts, but the record suggests otherwise Trump taunted Democrats for opposing his tax cut plans, which could cost anywhere from $5 trillion to $11 trillion over 10 years, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a fiscal watchdog.
21% : A new working group on so-called weaponization is targeting the prosecutors who investigated Trump, and senior officials dismissed a criminal case against New York's mayor because they saw him as an ally in the president's fight against illegal immigration.
20% : Trump signs executive order renaming wildlife refuge for Houston girl killed Trump signed an executive order renaming a wildlife refuge for a young girl who prosecutors say was killed by two Venezuelan men in the country illegally.
20% : Harris and the Democratic Party's prodigious fundraising operation raised more than $1 billion in their campaign against Trump.
20% : at Trump as the president discussed his cuts to the federal government. Democrats increasingly groaned, shouted, "Not true!"
20% : " Americans were certainly still gloomy about the post-COVID inflation spike that peaked in 2022, but Trump did not inherit a disastrous economy by any measure.
19% : Trump dismisses the African nation of Lesotho Trump said: "$8 million to promote LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of.
16% : " Trump lauds his wife's work to criminalize revenge porn Trump praised his wife for lobbying for a bill that would make it a federal crime to post intimate imagery online, whether real or fake.
16% : Trump calls out woman injured by transgender athlete One of Trump's orders is intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports.
15% : " President Trump has already begun dismantling his predecessor's climate change and renewable energy policies and declared a national energy emergency to speed up fossil fuel development.
12% : " Trump cited the funding as an example of government waste uncovered by his administration and the Department of Government Efficiency.
12% : Trump admonishes Democrats for not cheering him "It's very sad, and it just shouldn't be this way," Trump said.
11% : Democrat Al Green confronts Trump and is removed from House chamber "The presidential election of Nov. 5 was a mandate like has not been seen in many decades," Trump said as he began his speech.
7% : Trump calls on Congress to criminalize gender-affirming surgeries for children "I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body," Trump said.
6% : " Trump is keen to blame former President Joe Biden for inflation, even as consumer sentiment surveys by the Conference Board and the University of Michigan show people are worried about Trump's tariffs pushing up prices.
4% : Trump says agricultural products imported from abroad 'may be very dirty and disgusting' "Those goods that come in from other countries and companies, they're really, really in a bad position in so many different ways," Trump said.
4% : Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office that revokes a nonbinding goal set by Biden that EVs make up half of new cars sold by 2030. Trump makes inflated statements about inflation Trump said: "As you know, we inherited from the last administration an economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare.
3% : Trump again invokes the nonexistent 'EV mandate' Trump again said incorrectly -- as he has done many times before -- that his administration ended what he called the Biden administration's "insane electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto workers and companies from economic destruction.

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