President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday focused on his executive agenda, though he also made several specific asks of the assembled lawmakers while renewing calls for them to act on some of his key tax and immigration enforcement priorities.
In a wide-ranging address, which featured plenty of objections from Democrats, Trump announced that reciprocal tariffs would kick in starting April 2 and offered a more positive update on discussions with Ukraine, reading from a letter from the country’s leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
And Elon Musk, whom Trump referred to as the head of the office known as the Department of Government Efficiency, was featured throughout the night, with the president drawing cheers from Republicans as he highlighted the outfit’s cost-cutting barrage, which, nevertheless, has run into numerous legal challenges.
