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7 takeaways from Trump’s first address to Congress after his return to the White House  PBS NewsHour

A president’s speech to Congress is typically a time for a call to national unity and predictable claims about the country being strong. That wasn’t President Donald Trump’s plan.

A president’s speech to Congress is typically a time for a call to national unity and predictable claims about the country being strong. That wasn’t President Donald Trump’s plan.

Slotkin, a first-term senator from Michigan, spoke for about 11 minutes.

Takeaways from Trump’s address to Congress  CNN

Takeaways from Trump’s address to Congress  CNN

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.”

The Democratic response: Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan responds to President Trump  The Associated Press Who is Elissa Slotkin, the Democrat chosen to rebut Trump’s speech?  BBC.com Elissa Slotkin assails Trump’s early actions, offers Democrats a way to fight back  The Associated Press

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