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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.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis says that when it comes to implementing President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration, Florida is “rocking and rolling.”
Florida’s two-term conservative governor used a portion of his State of the State address on Tuesday to spotlight a sweeping package of immigration laws passed a few weeks ago during a special session of the GOP-dominated legislature.
“We are convening for the regular legislative session having already enacted groundbreaking legislation to fulfill the historic mission of delivering on President Donald Trump’s mandate to end the illegal immigration crisis once and for all,” DeSantis said in his address to lawmakers inside the state capitol in Tallahassee.
And the governor touted that “no state has done more, and no state did it sooner than we did in Florida.”
This is an excerpt of an article by Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser.
The Democratic Women’s Caucus told its members to wear pink to President Donald Trump‘s 2025 joint address in an act of protest.
New Mexico Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, who chairs the caucus, told TIME Magazine on Monday that wearing pink is meant to “signal our protest of Trump’s policies which are negatively impacting women and families.”
Leger Fernández also explained during a caucus press conference Tuesday that some members will still wear white to the speech “to remind people about the suffragists and the importance of women’s vote.”
She continued on to say that “women are claiming pink as a color of protest, as a color of power.”
“And we are protesting what is happening right now, both with the Republicans in the House, in the Senate and and at the White House,” Fernández said. “And so that’s why you’re seeing pink as a color of protest.”
“We’re standing together in pink—the color of the Women’s March, the color of persistence—as we continue to fight for our rights. This is a movement by, for, and about women,” Rep. Hillary Scholten, D-MI, one of the Democratic Women’s Caucus vice chairs, said in a statement.
A handful of other Democrats have voiced their support for major disruptions at the event, ranging from walkouts to using noisemakers to drown out Trump’s speech, Axios reported Tuesday.
Others have also floated reportedly carrying egg cartons to highlight costs, carrying protest signs, and coordinating outfits.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital that Trump is prepared for whatever the Democrats might throw at him.
Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom contribued to this report.
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.
Zelenskyy visited the White House on Friday amid negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, and was poised to sign a minerals agreement that would allow the U.S. access to Ukraine’s minerals in exchange for U.S. support in the country.
But after a tense exchange between Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Zelenskyy over whether diplomacy was the correct avenue to secure a peace deal and whether Russian President Vladimir Putin could be trusted, Trump kicked Zelenskyy out of the White House and said the Ukrainian leader could return when he was ready for peace.
Zelenskyy’s statement on Tuesday came less than a day after Trump paused all aid to Ukraine on Monday night. A senior Trump administration official told Fox News that military aid will remain on hold until Ukrainian leaders show a commitment to good faith peace negotiations.
“This is not permanent termination of aid, it’s a pause,” the official said. “The orders are going out right now.”
Read more about a possible mineral deal between Zelenskyy and Trump.
Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
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
