Trump's speech to a joint meeting of the congress: NPR

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President Trump began his joint speech to the congress on Tuesday by addressing his election victory and “America is back”.

“America's swing is back. Our spirit is back. Our pride is back. Trust is back,” said Trump from the Republican side of the hall and to silence Democrats.

Shortly after the beginning of his speech, Trump became Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who stood and called that Trump had no mandate. The spokesman for House, Mike Johnson, R-La. After the exit from Green, Trump continued his comments and scolded democratic legislators, of which he said that she would not be satisfied with anything he did.

The President then outlined a laundry list of actions from his first six office weeks, including the termination of foreign aid, the ban on trans -athletes from participation in school sports and establishment of the Ministry of Government Efficiency – an initiative to lower the size of the federal government that leaded Trump with the billionaire Elon Musk. Musk visited the speech personally and was personally thanked by the President.

Trump said that Doge has found evidence of “hundreds of billions” dollars, although the government did not provide complete accounting for these figures.

Trump said he was working on making prices for Americans more affordable and accused the former President Biden for things like the high price of eggs. The most recent tip of the cost is based on bird flu. He said he would also reduce prices by reducing the energy costs by investing in a natural gas pipeline in Alaska and assuming the production of minerals from rare earth.

When cutting the government spending, Trump said: “We will find out where this money is going, and it will not be pretty, but the entire fraud, waste, waste and theft we can find will defeat inflation, mortgage interest, lower car payments and food prices, protect our seniors and bring in more money into the pockets of American families.”

Other democratic congress members continued to protest on Trump during his statements, and many stopped black posters who had phrases such as “Save Medicaid” and “Musk Steals”. Some members protested by going out in the middle of the speech.

The President's speech comes because the tensions have escalated with the three largest trading partners in the United States. On Tuesday, the USA initiated new tariffs against China, Canada and Mexico, which led to retaliation. The aspiring trade war is expected to increase the costs for consumers and lower the markets on Tuesday.

Trump also said that in his speech he would talk about a potential agreement on critical minerals with Ukraine.

On Tuesday, after Trump announced a break for military help for Ukraine for his war against Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy released that that Ukraine is ready to sign the deal.

“We see this agreement as a step towards guaranteed security and solid security guarantees, and I really hope that it will be effective,” said Zelenskyy.

When the agreement is concluded, the blowout meeting of the past week between Zelenskyy, Trump and Vice President Vance would follow in the Oval Office. The meeting ended with Zelenskyy left the White House earlier than planned.