Watch Dwell: Trump’s speech to the 2025 joint session of Congress
Six weeks in the past, I stood beneath the dome of this Capitol and proclaimed the daybreak of the Golden Age of America. From that second on, it has been nothing however swift and unrelenting motion to usher within the best and most profitable period within the historical past of our nation. We have now achieved extra in 43 days than most administrations accomplish in 4 years or 8 years—and we’re JUST GETTING STARTED. I return to this chamber tonight to report that America’s MOMENTUM is again. Our SPIRIT is again. Our PRIDE is again. Our CONFIDENCE is again. And the American Dream is surging—larger and higher than ever earlier than. The American Dream is UNSTOPPABLE, and our nation is on the verge of a comeback the likes of which the world has by no means witnessed, and maybe won’t ever witness once more.
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Now, for the primary time in trendy historical past, extra Individuals imagine that our nation is headed within the RIGHT path than the WRONG path—an astonishing file 27-point swing since Election Day alone. Likewise, small enterprise optimism noticed its single largest one-month acquire ever recorded—a 41-point bounce. Over the previous 6 weeks, I’ve signed almost 100 Govt Orders and brought greater than 400 Govt Actions to revive COMMON SENSE, security, optimism, and wealth all throughout our fantastic land. The Individuals elected me to do the job, and I’m doing it. The truth is, it has been acknowledged by many who the primary month of our presidency is probably the most profitable within the historical past of our nation.
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Amongst my very highest priorities is to rescue our economic system and get dramatic and instant reduction to working households. As you understand, we inherited, from the final administration, an financial disaster and an inflation nightmare. Their insurance policies drove up power costs, pushed up the price of groceries, and drove the requirements of life out of attain for hundreds of thousands of Individuals. We suffered the worst inflation in 48 years, however even perhaps within the historical past of our nation. As President, I’m combating on daily basis to reverse this injury and Make America AFFORDABLE Once more.
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Joe Biden particularly let the worth of EGGS get uncontrolled—and we’re working exhausting to get it again down. A significant focus of our battle to defeat inflation is quickly lowering the price of power. The earlier administration reduce the variety of new oil and gasoline leases by 95%, slowed pipeline building to a halt, and closed greater than 100 energy crops. We have now by no means seen something prefer it.
That’s the reason on my first day in workplace, I declared a Nationwide ENERGY Emergency.
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My administration can be engaged on a big pure gasoline pipeline in Alaska, among the many largest on the planet, the place Japan, South Korea, and different nations need to be our accomplice—with trillions of {dollars} being spent by them. It’s going to actually be spectacular.
Later this week, I can even take historic motion to dramatically increase manufacturing of Crucial Minerals and Uncommon Earths right here in USA.
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No matter they tariff us, we tariff them. No matter they tax us, we tax them. In the event that they do non-monetary tariffs to maintain us out of their market, then we do non-monetary boundaries to maintain them out of our market. We are going to absorb trillions of {dollars} and create jobs like we’ve got by no means seen earlier than.
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Since taking workplace, my administration has launched probably the most sweeping border and immigration crackdown in American historical past—and we rapidly achieved the bottom numbers of unlawful border crossers EVER recorded.
The media and our mates within the Democrat Social gathering saved saying we wanted new LEGISLATION to safe the border—however it turned out that every one we actually wanted was a brand new PRESIDENT.
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I’ve despatched Congress an in depth funding request laying out precisely how we are going to eradicate these threats, defend our Homeland, and full the biggest deportation operation in American historical past, bigger even than present recordholder Dwight D. Eisenhower—a reasonable man however somebody who believed very strongly in borders. Individuals count on Congress to ship me this funding at once, so I can signal it into regulation.
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I’m additionally working tirelessly to finish the savage battle in Ukraine. Tens of millions of Ukrainians and Russians have been needlessly killed or wounded on this horrific and brutal battle, ad infinitum. The USA has despatched a whole bunch of billions of {dollars} to assist Ukraine’s protection. In the meantime, Europe has sadly spent extra money shopping for Russian Oil and Gasoline than they’ve spent on defending Ukraine – by far! And Biden has approved extra money on this battle than Europe has spent.
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As we reclaim our sovereignty, we should additionally convey again LAW and ORDER to our cities and cities. Lately, our justice system has been turned the wrong way up by Radical Left lunatics. Many jurisdictions just about ceased imposing the regulation towards harmful repeat offenders, whereas weaponizing regulation enforcement towards political opponents, like me. My administration has acted swiftly and decisively to revive honest, equal, and neutral justice underneath the Constitutional Rule of Regulation—beginning on the FBI and DOJ.
We’re additionally as soon as once more giving our cops the SUPPORT, PROTECTION, and RESPECT they so dearly deserve. This additionally contains our nice fireplace departments all through the nation,who’re likewise underneath siege.
