In his speech to Congress and the United States, President Donald Trump vowed to work to “put America's fate into our own hands,” and promised that “this will be our biggest era” as he fights to build the most freest civilization.
Trump's remarks came on Tuesday when he gave a speech in a similar speech to the annual coalition state to the Congressional joint session, declaring that “America is back,” and that “American dreams are surged.”
In his speech, Trump announced that Ukraine is ready to register for the Rare Earth Minerals Trade and continue peace talks to end the war with Russia, and that his administration has captured the terrorists behind the attacks in Afghanistan. He also promised to “fight a war” in drug cartels, as he cuts inflation costs and boasts about his administration's achievements already in the past six weeks.
Specifically, Trump urged lawmakers on Tuesday to increase funding for border security and touted his administration as “starting the widest border and immigration crackdown in American history,” in order to create a bill for the construction of border walls along the southern US border.
“The cartels are at war with America. It's time for the US to do the war with the cartels we're doing,” Trump said Tuesday.
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President Donald Trump attended a joint Congressional meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on March 4, 2025. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
Trump said he sent detailed funding requests to Congress explaining how to eliminate the threat and implement “the biggest deportation operation in American history.”
“Americans expect Congress to send this fund without delay, so I can sign it to the law,” Trump urged the chairman of Mike Johnson (R-La., and Senate majority leader John Tune) to pass such measures so that he can quickly sign the law.
Additionally, Trump said Tuesday that his administration had inherited an “economic catastrophe” and accused the Biden administration of allowing him to “out of control.”
“One of my top priorities is to save our economy and be dramatically and instantly saved by working families,” Trump said. “As president, I fight every day to overturn this damage and make America affordable again.”
The consumer price index shows that consumer prices have risen by about 20% under former President Joe Biden's administration, and egg prices have risen nearly 37% over the past year.
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President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a speech at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 4, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via Reuters)
Trump also defended his administration's new tariffs and raised existing tariffs on Chinese goods to 20%, comments coming after the US imposes a 25% tariff on Mexican and Canadian imports.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday that Canada will slap tariffs on more than $100 billion in American goods, while Mexican President Claudia Sinbaum said Mexico will announce its own retaliatory tariffs on Sunday.
Americans remain split along the party line regarding the outlook for the economy next year. 73% of Republicans said they expected the economy to improve a year from now, but 64% of Democrats said they expected the economy to deteriorate, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center.
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President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Voldimia Zelensky were sparred on Friday amid negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
Trump also said he would continue to work to end the war in Ukraine after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and stagnated on Friday.
Ukrainian President Voldimiazelensky visited Washington on Friday amid negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and was poised to sign a minerals agreement that would allow the United States to access Ukrainian minerals in exchange for US support.
Meanwhile, Zelensky said on Tuesday that Ukraine was ready to “come to the negotiation table” just hours before Trump's speech, saying, “It's time to get things right.” He was called the “unfortunate” exchange on Friday, and Ukraine is ready to sign a mineral contract.
Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine was ready to negotiate peace talks and resumed, and that he received a letter from Zelensky that he would sign a mineral trade.
“It's time to end this pointless war,” Trump said.
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Special guests attending Tuesday's speech included Trump border emperor Tom Homan, former deputy immigrants and customs executive director. Noah Algamani suffered from prison by the Palestinian extremist group Hamas after the group attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. Hockey legends Buzz Schneider and Rob McClanahan were part of the US hockey team that was inducted into the US Hockey Hall of Fame in 2003 and defeated the Soviet Union at the 1980 Olympics.
All lawmakers are usually invited to the president's annual speech, but Democrats include Democrats, including Democrats, including Democrats who choose to speak this year, including Director Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Patty Murray of Washington, Don Bayer of Virginia, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
Freshman Senator Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich. is set to submit a Democrats' official response to Trump's speech on Tuesday. Slotkin, a former CIA analyst who worked for the Pentagon and White House for both 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.
