Summarizing Trump’s Second Term Moves—Bigly!

March 14, 2025

Day of Trump's Second Term

President Trump arrives to address a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images President Trump delivered an address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday that drew Republican applause and silence and protest from Democrats as he outlined key actions taken during his first
President Trump speaks during an address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday lasted for more than 90 minutes, the longest
President Donald Trump's set new records of time and duration in his address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, a speech punctuated by Republican applause, Democratic opposition, and the removal of a Texas congressman who shouted at him. Trump spoke for nearly 100 minutes, and his address, with an estimated 9,831 words, was
President Donald Trump struck a conciliatory tone toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his speech to Congress on Tuesday night and—despite a shouting match in the Oval Office just days before—seemed open to restarting talks over access to Ukraine’s minerals in exchange for continued U.S. security assistance. In the House chamber, Trump read from a
T his article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Perhaps the clearest distillation of President Donald Trump’s sprawling first address to the new Congress came Tuesday night when he laid the premise for making cuts to Social Security, a program
By  LISA MASCARO Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]   WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas wasn’t the first lawmaker ever to blurt out a shout of protest during a presidential address to Congress. But he’s perhaps the only one in recent memory to actually be ejected from the hall Tuesday
President Donald Trump says the U.S. government is extraditing a suspect in the deadly Abbey Gate bombing in the final days of the Afghanistan withdrawal that killed 13 American servicemembers. Trump recited a letter he received earlier Tuesday from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, saying that the wartime president wants to come back to the table
““We won the popular vote. And we won counties in our country,” Trump said as he began his speech. “You have no mandate,” Democratic Rep. Al Green countered. Republicans quickly jumped to their feet with chants of “USA! USA!” Green was then removed from the House chamber. ““We won the popular vote. And we won
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