The more than 90-minute address added up to a defiant sales pitch for the policies the promised during his campaign and leaned into during his first weeks in office.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to keep up his campaign of “swift and unrelenting action” in reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy in an unyielding address to Congress and the nation that left Democratic legislators to register their dissent with stone faces, placards calling out “lies,” and one legislator’s ejection.
Trump’s prime-time speech was the latest marker in his takeover of the nation’s capital, where the Republican-led House and Senate have done little to restrain the president as he and his allies work to slash the size of the federal government and remake America’s place in the world.
The more than 90-minute address added up to a defiant sales pitch for the policies that he promised during his campaign and leaned into during his first weeks back in office. …