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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

Sen. Elissa Slotkin said late Tuesday that voters in last year’s election “made it clear that prices are too high and that the government needs to be more responsive to their needs.”

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This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Perhaps the clearest distillation of President Donald Trump’s sprawling first address to the new Congress

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday delivered his first joint address to Congress since returning to power, telling lawmakers that “America is back” and touting the flurry of actions he has taken over the first six weeks of his second term,

It wasn’t even close.

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Trump may meet Canada and Mexico ‘in the middle’, says US commerce chief  BBC.com What will cost Americans more from sweeping tariffs on Mexico, China and Canada  CNN Stock futures rise after Commerce Secretary Lutnick suggests possible compromise on Trump tariffs: Live

The first speech of Trump’s second term in office, while not officially a State of the Union address, is a chance for the president to lay out legislative priorities and tout early achievements.