President Donald Trump will go to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, his first speech before the Congress of his second term.
His speech will be his fifth public speech before a joint session of the Congress, and arrives at a time when Republicans have a triumph with a Republican president and majorities both in the Chamber and in the Senate.
This is what you need to know about speech and how to see.
President Donald Trump delivers a speech from the State of the Union to a joint session of Congress in the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2020.
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When is it?
Trump will go to a joint session of Congress at Capitol on Tuesday, March 4 at 9 pm et (8 pm CT; 6 PM PT).
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, invited Trump to deliver the joint speech to Congress last month so that Trump could share his “first vision of the United States for our legislative future,” the speaker wrote in his invitation.
The president of the House of Representatives delivers comments after the Chamber approved the republican budget resolution on the bill of expenses on February 25, 2025 at the United States Capitol in Washington, DC.
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How can I see and transmit?
ABC News will have a special Trump speech coverage from 9 pm to 11 pm et in ABC and ABC News Live, which is also transmitted on Disney+, Hulu and other digital platforms.
“World News Tonight” Anchor and Managing editor David Muir Will Lead the Coverage and Be Joined by ABC News Live “Prime” Anchor and “World News Tonight” Solanday Anchor Linsey Davis, Chief Washington correspondent and “This Week” co-ACHOR Jonathan Karl, Chief Global Affairs correspondent and “This week” co-Anchor Martha Raddatz, Chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce, Chief Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas, Chief Business, Economics and the technology correspondent Rebecca Jarvis, the senior political correspondent Rachel Scott, the national correspondent, the national correspondent Mireya Villarreal and the multiplatform reporter Jay O’Brien.
ABC News Digital will have a wall to wall coverage, including a live blog with update comments on the main topics of the address and response of the ABC News expert team, notable moments and key conclusions of the night, and a control of facts. 538 will also have previous views and data -based reactions to the address.
What is an address for the joint session of Congress?
Since this speech will be Trump’s first during his second term, it is not known as a “state of the union”, although both the address of the joint session and the state of the union are effectively the same.
The speech is called the State of the Union during the years that do not include the opening of the president.
Speech is a Ordered presidential duty in the Constitutionwhich requires the President “from time to time to give Congress information from the State of the Union.”
What is expected to say?
Trump, like other presidents, will take the opportunity to discuss his agenda.
Since he assumed the position, Trump has been aggressive in promoting his priorities, which include stopping what he sees as a wasteful government expenditure through federal employment cuts.
It will probably discuss those efforts, as well as their objectives with immigration, foreign policy and the economy.
Monday morning, Trump Published in your Social Network Network that the speech will be “great” and he “will say it as it is.”
Who will be there?
Trump’s speech will join all the branches of the government, since it joins the members of the Congress and the judges of the Supreme Court.
The president of the house and the vice president sit behind the president while speaking. This speech will mark the first time that Vice President JD Vance will sit behind Trump for speech. During his previous administration, former vice president Mike Pence sat behind him.
During her last speech in the state of the union in 2020, the then Bisa Nancy Pelosi memorably torn a copy of Trump’s speech just when she finished.
The president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, starts the documents after President Donald Trump deliver a speech of the State of the Union to a joint session of the Congress in the Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2020.
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Guest guests also attend the event. The White House and the members of the Congress generally invite guests with a background and specific stories that are important for them both personal and politically, people who want to thank, honor or even highlight a particular issue.
The White House has not yet launched its guest list.
Who speaks for the Democratic Party?
Every year, the opposite party has a televised response to the president’s message. This year, Michigan’s senator Elissa Slotkin will deliver the democratic response after Trump’s speech before Congress.
“The public expects leaders levels with them about what is really happening in our country. From our economic security to our national security, we have to draw a path to follow that improve the lives of people in the country that we all love, and I am anxious to put that,” said Slotkin, a first -year senator, in a statement.
Slotkin is a political survivor who won his seat in the Senate in November for less than 20,000 votes, although Trump took the state at the presidential level.
The former CIA analyst and Pentagon official also met two periods in the Chamber, after turning a suburban seat in Detroit in 2018. Trump won his district for 4 points in 2016 and lost it for .5 points in 2020.
Democratic representative Adriano Espaillat, president of the Hispanic Caucus of Congress, will deliver the Spanish response to Trump. It is the first Dominican immigrant, and previously undocumented, in serving in Congress.
Benjamin Siegel of ABC News contributed to this report.
