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Former NCAA athlete Riley Gaines, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, and a state-level DOGE official are just some of the faces Americans will get a glimpse of inside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday night.
Members of Congress spoke with Fox News Digital about their guests for President Donald Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress for his second term.
Rep. Marianette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, said she invited Gaines after they both attended a White House event where Trump signed an executive order aimed at limiting transgender athletes’ participation in school sports. Girls’ sports was a top issue for Miller-Meeks during her close House race in 2024.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., told Fox News Digital he would be bringing Ross Ulbricht, founder of the darkweb platform Silk Road.
In another nod to the Trump administration’s work so far, Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, is attending the speech with the chair of her home state’s own DOGE task force.
This in an excerpt of an article from Elizabeth Elkind and Julia Johnson.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called his meeting at the White House last week “regrettable” on Tuesday and said he is ready to pursue peace under President Donald Trump’s leadership.
Zelenskyy made the concession in a lengthy statement posted to social media on Tuesday, saying Ukraine “is ready to come to the negotiating table.” He added that last week’s meeting “did not go the way it was supposed to be,” and he said “it is time to make things right.”
“My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump’s strong leadership to get a peace that lasts,” Zelenskyy wrote.
Read more about a possible mineral deal between Zelenskyy and Trump.
This is an excerpt from a story by Anders Hagstrom.
President Donald Trump is set to address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night for the first time in his second term and is expected to deliver a speech to outline his plans for the nation under the theme of “The Renewal of the American Dream.”
The president is scheduled to speak before all members of Congress on Tuesday at 9 p.m. EST.
The speech is not officially called the “State of the Union” because Trump has not been in office for a full year, though it operates in a similar fashion. The yearly presidential address is intended to showcase the administration’s achievements and policies.
The president has been working at a breakneck pace to align the federal government with his “Make America Great Again” policies. The president took more than 200 executive actions on his first day in office on Jan. 20 and has not slowed the pace since.
White House officials exclusively told Fox News Digital that the speech, themed “The Renewal of the American Dream,” will feature four main sections: accomplishments from Trump’s second term thus far at home and abroad; what the Trump administration has done for the economy; the president’s renewed push for Congress to pass additional funding for border security; and the president’s plans for peace around the globe.
This is an excerpt of an article by Fox News’ Brooke Singman.
The State of the Union is an annual address given by the President of the United States to a joint session of Congress about the current condition of the nation.
The speech typically takes place near the beginning of the calendar year and is considered an opportunity for the president to share the successes, policy goals, achievements and failures of their administration. Interestingly enough, this address has not emerged out of some esoteric tradition but is a literal constitutional responsibility of the Office of the President.
Article II, Section 3, Clause 1 of the Constitution reads, “The president must give the Congress information on the ‘State of the Union’ ‘from time to time.’” While “from time to time” allows some personal discretion, since the 1930s, the address has been given annually.
The president’s update to Congress on the state of the union hasn’t always been a speech to a joint session of Congress. Before modern U.S. history, some presidents sent a letter. But for nearly a century, presidents have opted to give a live address to Congress.
The State of the Union has been the origin of some of the most famous speeches in U.S. history. Abraham Lincoln’s 1862 speech codified the sentiment of America as the “last best hope of earth.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1942 speech advanced his “four freedoms” wartime goals for the U.S. while fighting the Axis powers, and in 2003, George W. Bush advanced his claim that Iran, North Korea, and Iraq formed an “Axis of Evil” who were pursuing “weapons of mass destruction.”
The State of the Union takes place every year, typically within the first three calendar months.
The speech fulfills the president’s obligations under Article II Section 3 of the Constitution which requires him or her to “give to the Congress information” about the nation’s state of affairs and give recommendations for legislative action.
From Thomas Jefferson until Woodrow Wilson, the president typically delivered his his State of the Union messaged in writing to Congress.
The rise of radio and later television expanded the reach of the president’s address, with President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 beginning the tradition of delivering the address in prime time to reach a wider television audience.
This year, President Donald Trump will stand at the House lectern in front of Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.
Trump will likely celebrate the work of his government watchdog agency DOGE led by SpaceX founder Elon Musk , the early successes of his Cabinet officials and changes in domestic and foreign policy versus the Biden administration.
President Donald Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress of his second term will begin at 9 p.m. ET, and can be live streamed either directly online, via the White House’s website, or on major cable and broadcast television networks. Fox News, ABC News, NBC News, and CNN will all carry live coverage of Trump’s remarks.
Importantly, the White House live stream will cover the president’s remarks only. Networks and streaming services provide additional coverage, such as a list of individuals in attendance and the acknowledged “guests” chosen by a sitting president and often referred to by name during their remarks. They also cover the annual rebuttal speech delivered after the president’s formal remarks by the political party not in power.
This year’s response will be delivered by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.
Live Coverage begins here
