President Donald Trump seeks to convince voters to support his initiative to rebuild the US economy in a speech during the maximum hearing at a joint session of the Congress on Tuesday nightarguing that despite the economic winds against, the country “has recovered the impulse.”
“Our pride has returned. Our trust has returned. And the American dream is booming, bigger and better than ever. The American dream is unstoppable and our country is on the verge of recovery, ”said Trump.
But while Trump spoke, the divisions within the country were clearly evident, and at the beginning of his comments the president was repeatedly interrupted by the Texas Democratic representative to Green. The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, asked Green, who had already asked to dismiss Trump, to show decorum and sit. When the Democrat refused, Johnson caused the camera sergeant from the camera to take him out of the camera.
“I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize that there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy, or to make them stand up or smile,” Trump said.
Trump’s speech arrives at a crucial moment, with data that shows new tensions about the economy: the manufacturing activity stagnates, inflation increases, consumer confidence decreases and actions are left behind the values markets of other countries.
The actions were violently moved on Tuesday after the latest Trump tariff measures against the main business partners of the United States, and the S&P 500 index closed at its lowest level since before the president’s election last year. The Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, hinted that the administration could announce a way for the relief of tariffs for the goods of Mexico and Canada, two of the affected countries, which are covered by a free trade agreement as soon as tomorrow.
But Trump also took advantage of his speech to defend his use of tariffs and reveal new projects, andA new gas pipeline and efforts to increase the production of critical minerals and rare earths, which according to the national industries.
Trump promoted the pipeline as “one of the largest in the world” and said that countries like Japan and South Korea would be associated in the initiative “with billion investments each.”
Similarly, Trump prepares to argue that he is taking measures to address the persistent concerns of consumers (from egg prices to energy costs) while expanding critical industries. He argued that his administration inherited what he described as “an inflation nightmare” of his predecessor Joe Biden and that his policies were already helping the recovery of the economy.
“It has been a quick and relentless action to mark the beginning of the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country,” Trump said.
The president speaks just hours after applying 25% tariffs to his main shopping partners, Canada and Mexico, and double the levies to the second largest economy in the world, China, 20%, measures that run the risk of exacerbating economic pressures.
“Whatever the tariff imposed on us, we will impose it on them,” Trump will say, according to extracts from the interview that was done in the White House. “Whatever the tax imposed on us, we will impose it on them. If they impose non -monetary tariffs to keep us out of their market, then we put non -monetary barriers to keep them out of ours. ”
Trump said he had talked to the bosses of the three largest car manufacturers in the United States on Tuesday before his speech. Automotive companies are particularly concerned that tariffs on Mexican and Canadian products to increase prices even assembled cars in the United States.
In his second term, Trump has quickly acted to implement his policies with a series of executive measures that are remodeling the United States government and their economic and security ties with the world.
Trump, while highlighting his economic agenda, also promoted many of his measures in relation to the cultural problems that have encouraged his base. Among them, their efforts to restrict initiatives for diversity, equity and inclusion, a directive for the Government to recognize only two genres, the prohibition that men participate in women’s sports aimed at transgender athletes, as well as their decision to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.
The representative of Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of Trump’s most faithful allies, wore a red hat in which “Trump was right in everything”, and the president took the stage among songs of “USA”. The Democrats were seated during the rest of Trump’s comments, and some held posters that said “Musk roba” (a reference to the Trump multimillionaire advisor, Elon Musk) and “false.”
The president prepares to present plans to end the war in Ukraine days after a public confrontation with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, who surprised the allies. Trump is pressing the country devastated by war to accept a peace agreement with Russia.
Zelenskiy was in Washington last week to sign an agreement that allows the United States to benefit from the development of the natural resources of Ukraine, which Trump has presented as necessary to pay US taxpayers for their support and lay the foundations to put an end to the conflict. American officials rushed to relive the agreement, with the aim of Trump to announce an agreement as soon as possible in Tuesday’s speech, people familiar with the matter said.
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Musk, who supervises an effort to cut the workforce and expenditure of the federal government through the government efficiency department, He was in the camera and received an ovation standing from the Republicans.
These measures have caused consternation in Washington and concern even among some Republicans about their reach. The Democrats will also highlight the initiative, and some legislators will invite former government employees who lost their employment.
Trump presented a long list of government programs and subsidies that he presented as examples of waste, and reiterated previous statements (which were later retracted by other government officials) who suggested that social security was providing benefits to people aged hundreds of years. The Democrats often intervened to make fun of the statements.
Trump’s appearance before Congress also represents a crucial opportunity to pressure Republicans about the adoption of legislative measures. Republicans are dealing with the way of extending the tax cuts that expire from Trump’s first mandate, approve the additional benefits he promised during the campaign and his calls to balance the budget.
“I am asking that there are no taxes on tips, or overtime, or on the benefits of social security for our dear elderly,” Trump said.
Trump will say that he is transmitting a “detailed financing application” in search of additional resources to carry out his intensified deportations of undocumented immigrants and to complete its emblematic border wall that wants legislators to approve immediately.
Trump is expected to also approach the war between Israel and Hamas, after a six -week truce will end with both parties still divided on how to move towards an indefinite cessation of the fighting. However, Trump’s role as a mediator has been hindered by his proposal that the United States reconstructs Gaza to make it a “Riviera” Middle “Riviera”.
The speech also addressed controversial issues that Trump addressed in last year’s campaign, in particular the participation of transgender women in sports and concerns about crime.
The guests of the first lady Melania Trump include a former high school volleyball player injured in a game with a transgender athlete and Laken Riley’s family, a student killed by an undocumented migrant.
However, the state of the economy and the consequences of tariffs are the backdrop of Tuesday’s statements, since surveys show that voters want Trump to make more to stop inflation. Trump’s advisors downplayed market liquidation as growing problems to address what they consider unbalanced commercial flows and bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States, but the damage of the growing commercial war threatens to spread.
