President Trump is expected to attend a joint Congress meeting at 9pm on Tuesday night, reshaping the federal government and laying out a positive agenda to change US foreign policy during the first televised primetime speech of the second term.
Trump is expected to talk about the layoffs of sweep staff that affect almost every corner of the federal government. He is likely to deal with tense relations with Ukraine after an oval office exploded with the country's leaders last week.
The president may coincide with his administration's crackdown on illegal border crossings, coinciding with a decline in the number of migrants across the southern border, and his legislative push for tax and spending cuts that could increase the federal deficit by hundreds of millions of dollars.
This is what you need to know.
Where can I see it?
The New York Times streams addresses on NYTimes.com using live analysis from reporters. Speeches are also carried on major television networks and cables.
Who will provide the response?
Democrats chose Sen. Elissa Slotkin, the first-term Democrat in Michigan, to respond to Trump's speech. Slotkin, 48, won a small Senate seat in the swing state that Trump carried. She was first elected to the home in 2018. Other centralized Democrat women have military or intelligence news backgrounds and have been hired as Trump's counterweight. Slotkin worked in the national security position as a CIA analyst for both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
New York Democrat Adriano brings a Spanish response to Trump's speech, where the majority of Hispanic districts include Manhattan's upper and parts of the Bronx. He was the first Dominican American and the first immigrant who had previously been documented to serve in Congress. As a state legislator, Espaillat strongly supported New York's policy to allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses. The Trump administration has sued the state over its policies.
Progressive Democrats chose California's signature Latte Fasimon, who was elected to the East Bay Area Open Seat in November. Simon, the first member of the Congress, is the first member born blind and gives a response from the worker's family.
Who will you join?
The President and First Lady usually invite guests to sit in the First Lady's box during their speech.
First lady, Melania Trump, along with Berry's mother and stepfather, invited Elliston Berry, a teenage victim of AI-generated porn. Lawmakers on both parties are pushing for bills that criminalize the act of explicitly publishing sexual images without their consent, and are calling for social media platforms to remove those images.
Olivia Hayes was killed in a car accident involving an undocumented immigrant who drove her husband Wesley Hayes under the influence of alcohol, where speaker Mike Johnson invited Tom Homan to Trump's “border area” in the White House, and her husband Wesley Hayes drove under the influence of alcohol. Sen. Joni Ernst, a Republican of Iowa, said he plans to invite Scott Root, the father of Sarah Root, who was killed in 2016 by an illegally drunk driver in the country.
In President Joseph R. Biden's Union speech last year, Republicans wore pins and t-shirts depicting Rayken Riley, a nursing student killed by undocumented Venezuelan immigrants, in support of Trump's immigration agenda.
Democrats invited people affected by the Trump administration to rapidly and indiscriminately fire federal employees. Sen. Tina Smith, a Minnesota Democrat, welcomes Kate Severson, one of roughly 1,000 National Park Service employees, who were suddenly fired on February 14th.
