Trump doubles down on tariffs and DOGE cuts in speech to jubilant Republicans and protesting Democrats

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : " The president told members and a television audience expected to number in the millions that he was there to report that "America's momentum is back, our spirit is back, our pride is back, our confidence is back, and the American Dream is surging bigger and better than ever before," despite recent polling and economic data that shows the U.S. careening towards a recession with sliding consumer confidence on account of the uncertainty he has injected into the political environment with unilateral import tax increases and cuts to government services. Democrats, despite pleas from their leadership to maintain decorum and not provide content for a Republican media attack machine that routinely weaponizes displays of emotion from their party, began protesting within minutes of Trump arriving in the chamber.
52% : Trump, who entered the House chamber to chants of "USA" from the Republican majorities in the assembled House and Senate, opened his speech by noting the relatively short interval that has passed since he was sworn in under the Capitol rotunda and claiming to have "accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years.
49% : Trump did appear to acknowledge that the tariffs he is imposing unilaterally will cause pain for consumers, but he dismissed the impact of higher prices and claimed that the tariffs he champions are "about protecting the soul of our country" and "about making America rich again and making America great again.
46% : Trump also bragged of having eviscerated a whole class of longstanding programs meant to aid recruitment of minorities to federal employment under the guise of ending diversity programs he and his supporters say discriminate against white people, claiming that the U.S. "will be woke no longer" under his leadership.
41% : Throughout the speech, Trump rehashed the past, lambasting Biden for the inflation that surged during his presidency.
41% : Trump said he was moving forward with plans to implement unilateral tax increases on imports from any country that places tariffs or unspecified "non-monetary trade barriers" on American goods.
36% : But Trump also used the speech to provide a measure of comfort to the families of the 13 service personnel killed in the ISIS-K attack by announcing that U.S. authorities have "apprehended the top terrorists responsible for that atrocity.
26% : They won't do it no matter what." As if they were eager to prove his point, Democrats in the chamber heckled the president right back, shouting criticisms of his various policies even as they were drowned out by the Republicans in the chamber chanting the president's name or simply "U.S.A." Some Democrats, like Maxine Dexter of Oregon, Jasmine Crockett of Texas, Maxwell Frost and Andrea Salinas of Oregon, walked out of the chamber during Trump's address as they wore black t-shirts saying "resist" or "No Kings Here." Continuing, Trump shrugged off the displays from the opposition party and went into a rote recitation of his administration's first actions, including a federal hiring and regulation freeze, a freeze on foreign aid that is being challenged in court, and withdrawals from several international organizations and agreements such as the Paris Climate Accord, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Human Rights Council.
25% : Trump, who has reoriented American foreign policy towards Russia and away from the country's traditional democratic allies in NATO, said it was "time to stop this madness" and "stop the killing" that has taken place as a result of the war, which he refuses to say was started by Russia.
24% : Yet Trump failed to acknowledge, as he always does, that tariffs are not taxes on other countries because the American government does not collect taxes from foreign governments.
13% : Seemingly in response, Trump launched into a partisan rant after bragging of having declared a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border, attacking his predecessor, former president Joe Biden, as "the worst president in American history" and lambasting the Democratic side of the House chamber as being packed with people who are so blinded by partisan hatred that they could never bring themselves to see any value in anything he might say.
8% : Rep. Al Green of Texas raised his cane almost as soon as Trump began to speak and said that Trump did not have a mandate.

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