Why Trump’s Tuesday speech isn’t a State of the Union address
His speech will be known as an “address to a joint session”.
Among their guests were undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, known as Dreamers, who fear Trump will dismantle Obama’s 2012 order granting millions of them temporary legal status.
Already, the White House seems to have teased the speech with reports that Trump is open to immigration reform – including a pathway to legal status – despite the rhetoric of his campaign.
“Currently, when we ship products out of America, many other countries make us pay very high tariffs and taxes – but when foreign companies ship their products into America, we charge them nothing or nearly nothing”, he said. Baldwin said she hopes Trump will embrace a “Buy America” measure she has championed, which would require that federal infrastructure funds be used to buy US -made products and materials.
It was a signature issue on the campaign trail and important enough to be signed into power as an executive order at the end of Presiden Trump’s first week.
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Leo Shane III covers Congress, Veterans Affairs and the White House for Military Times. “If we are guided by the well-being of American citizens, then I believe Republicans and Democrats can work together to achieve an outcome that has eluded our country for decades”.
Five days after the killing of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, President Lyndon Johnson made his first speech to a joint session of Congress.
Another guest, Jamiel Shaw Sr, is the father of a 17-year-old boy who was shot and killed in 2008 by an undocumented immigrant.
Some of the individuals deported by Trump’s administration were convicted of crimes deemed less serious under President Barack Obama. They discussed areas of “common ground” such as the tax overhaul and removing regulations that drive up costs and slow innovation, she said in an email.
But Trump said he is speaking for Americans who have not been treated fairly.