After sounding the war drums for weeks with warnings to Iranian leaders, President Donald Trump spent scant time on foreign policy matters during his State of the Union address, with lawmakers saying they expected to hear more from the commander in chief.
Trump bickered and traded verbal jabs with Democrats during a nearly two-hour appearance in the House chamber that was heavy on domestic issues. He asked Congress to end a Department of Homeland Security shutdown, ban lawmaker stock trading, block institutional investors from purchasing single-family homes and codify his stalled health care plan.
What he did not do was ask the House and Senate to pass any new authorizations for him to use U.S. military force against Iran or to achieve his polarizing Western Hemisphere policy goals. In fact, the president spent just a few minutes on foreign policy, spending most of the address telling Americans who have grown frustrated with his economic and domestic policies that they are working — despite his declining poll numbers.
