Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the house floor that President Trump will sign the spending bill to avoid government shutdown but will also issue a declaration for a national emergency.
Watch former astronaut and Navy veteran Mark Kelly campaign announcement that he is running for U.S. Senate in Arizona. The announcement was tweeted on February 12, 2019. Kelly is married to former Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
During his State of the Union address, Trump said that legal immigrants "enrich our society in countless ways" and that he wants people to enter the country legally.
Traditionally, the Speaker of the House introduces the President before he begins the State of the Union address. President Trump did not wait for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to introduce him this year.
President Donald Trump says in his State of the Union address on February 5, 2019 that the only thing that can stop it the "economic miracle" in the United States are "foolish wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigations."
At Trump’s State of the Union, Democrats in Congress — notably House women wearing suffragette white — clapped and chanted “USA” when the president spoke about women in the economy. He joked that they weren’t supposed to clap for him.
Democratic women in Congress wore suffragette white to Trump’s State of the Union address before the Senate and House — and so did Tiffany Trump, the president’s daughter, raising questions on Twitter.