Here are the economic highlights from Trump’s first address to Congress

MORE: “Once again, the unlikeliest of presidents had torn up the script and thrown his young administration into upheaval”.

In a news conference on February 16, Trump was asked whether he was going to end President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields from deportation some young people who were brought illegally to the U.S.as children.

From Benjy Sarlin: “When it came to immigration, President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday night was more notable for what it left out than for what it included”.

Trump may well revise the grade, after delivering the most polished, optimistic address of his short political career on Tuesday night.

The former labor secretary said that if Trump supports undocumented immigrants gaining legal work status, then his actions need to match his rhetoric.

Activists called it everything from a “fake-out” to a “fog machine”.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the theme of the speech to Congress, which is controlled by Mr Trump’s fellow Republicans, would be “the renewal of the American spirit”, and it would be grounded in how to solve the problems of everyday Americans. And while his immigration policies, or proposed policies, will not be as welcoming as Democrats rightly advocate, President Trump seems to be moving at least a little on the subject.

Some Democrats were also dismissive: “This plan doesn’t add up”, Senator Chris Van Hollen told AFP.

That publication, which is more than 300,000 words, did not put a price on the U.S. immigration policy but said: “On average, [immigrant] individuals in the first generation are more costly to governments, mainly at the state and local levels, than are the native-born generations; however, immigrants’ children – the second generation – are among the strongest economic and fiscal contributors in the population”.

It is unclear whether Trump will follow through on his stated openness for an immigration compromise. I’m also not entirely sure Trump’s VOICE is headed in the right direction.

Activists are particularly salty after believing they were about to win the issue in 2013, when a broad legalization bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support on a 68-32 vote. I’m a proud Democrat, but first and foremost, I’m a proud Republican and Democrat, and mostly American. “But it must be the plan they want, not the plan forced on them by our government”.

You know, another Republican president, Ronald Reagan, once said, “In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about”. Business leaders cheered the positive tone in the president’s speech to a joint session of Congress, even as they acknowledged a continued lack of specificity in many areas, such as taxes.

They would have to meet a minimum score to be allowed to immigrate. Yet the president only obliquely referenced this head-turning position in his speech. We had a rough election and a turbulent first month in his presidency.

“Ironically, perhaps, Trump is the one that can do it”, Aguilar said.

Most mornings, President Donald Trump gathers business leaders, union executives or others at the White House for made-for-television meetings meant to project the image of a can-do chief executive.

“One of the anchors said that if anyone can get a deal it would be you. And if he can get it consistent with his principles, he will”.

Now it becomes the job of every American to hold President Trump’s feet to the fire that he kindled quite brightly this week.