President Donald Trump's attends a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 4, 2025. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
Trump said that he's sent Congress a detailed funding request laying out how to eliminate threats and carry out the "largest deportation operation in American history."
"Americans expect Congress to send me this funding without delay, so I can sign it into law," Trump said, urging Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., to pass such a measure so he could sign it into law quickly.
Furthermore, Trump also said Tuesday his administration inherited an "economic catastrophe," while accusing the Biden administration of allowing the egg prices to get "out of control."
"Among my very highest priorities is to rescue our economy and get dramatic and immediate relief to working families," Trump said. "As president, I am fighting every day to reverse this damage and make America affordable again."
The consumer price index shows consumer prices increased roughly 20% under former President Joe Biden’s administration, and that egg prices have soared nearly 37% in the past year.
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President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sparred on Friday amid negotiations to end war in Ukraine.
Trump also said that he would continue to work to end the war in Ukraine, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and after negotiations stalled on Friday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Washington Friday amid negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, and was poised to sign a minerals agreement that would allow the U.S. access to Ukraine’s minerals in exchange for U.S. support in the country.
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy said Tuesday hours before Trump’s address that Ukraine is now prepared to "come to the negotiating table" and said "it is time to make things right" in a post on X. He also called the exchange on Friday "regrettable," and that Ukraine is prepared to sign a minerals deal.
Trump said Tuesday he received a letter from Zelenskyy stating that Ukraine is ready to negotiate and resume peace talks, and would sign the minerals deal.
"It's time to end this senseless war," Trump said, noting that it's important to talk to both sides to end wars.
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Special guests who attended the Tuesday address included Trump’s border czar Tom Homan, the former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director; Noa Argamani, who suffered captivity from Palestinian militant group Hamas after the group attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023; and hockey legends Buzz Schneider and Rob McClanahan, who were inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 2003 and were part of the U.S. hockey team that defeated the Soviet Union in the 1980 Olympics.
While all lawmakers are typically invited to the president’s annual address, Democrats including Sens. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Patty Murray of Washington, along with Reps. Don Beyer of Virginia and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York chose to opt out of attending the speech this year.
Freshman Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., is slated to deliver the Democratic party’s official response to Trump’s speech Tuesday. Slotkin, a former CIA analyst who worked at the Pentagon and the White House under both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, previously served several terms representing her state in the U.S. House of Representatives before joining the Senate.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
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