What time does Trump address Congress tonight?
Mr Trump’s address came at a pivotal moment for a new president elected on pledges to swiftly shake up Washington and follow through on the failed promises of career politicians. His supporters, still fervent in their support for him, will be looking for Trump to focus on the work he’s done to make good on the campaign promises that vaulted him from reality TV star to president. He was asked about his comments regarding violence in Chicago and what he meant by saying he was going to send in federal law enforcement, a question which he avoided. I want to be in a room filled with hard working American patriots who love their country, who salute their flag and who pray for a better future. Capital Economics’ chief USA economist Paul Ashworth said Mr Trump appeared to be struggling to implement his agenda.
“One of the reasons he has as much support as he has now, he’s really showing the American public that he’s decisive”, Mr. Hall said, citing the president’s early flurry of executive actions. If “millions of people get deported and more people don’t come in to take their place, then you’ll have downward pressure on home prices, especially in urban areas”.
Touted deals he says he made with a number of American companies to produce new jobs and the deregulation he has proposed that he believes will lead to job growth.
This is a Nixon to China kind of proposition. I don’t expect there to be a lot of details, but I’m also not confident that the market is going to disappointed by not having details.
Even workers with green cards and work visas under the H1-B program for skilled foreign workers are anxious about possible restrictions under Trump.
Trump restated his key campaign themes, issuing a rallying call for the “renewal of the America spirit”.
In Congress, where nearly no one in either party expected Mr. Trump to win a year ago, the president still has a lot of persuading to do. Trump also reconfirmed that he intends to repeal and replace Obamacare, increase defense spending, enforce immigration laws and also overhaul tax including cuts for the middle class. Even filling political appointments has been a slow process (less because Congress is holding up the process than because the White House isn’t producing nominees).
But the Democrats groaned because they didn’t want to hear about crime committed by illegal immigrants. Um, it’s publicly known that he and a bunch of other news anchors had lunch at the White House today with Trump. “A softening” is the term he reaches for when he wants to describe his willingness to compromise on amnesty.
Fourthly, we should implement legal reforms that protect patients and doctors from unnecessary costs that drive up the price of insurance – and work to bring down the artificially high price of drugs and bring them down immediately.
Welch said he’s convinced that Trump’s opponents will try to “knock him down” at every opportunity over the next four years. And that makes it all the less likely that he’ll be able to offer anything more to the push for a “compromise” than a few encouraging words.