Exactly what Trump wants Congress to do this year still isn't entirely clear. But if Democrats take back the House, his legislative agenda may end.

President Trump will speak to a legislative body that has ceded much of its power to him but has recently pushed back gently, and where partisan divides are deeper than ever ahead of the midterm elections.

President Donald Trump will stand before Congress on Tuesday to deliver the annual State of the Union address to a suddenly transformed nation.

WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, a potentially pivotal moment as ⁠the White ⁠House seeks to firm up support among Republican voters ahead of November's midterm election.

The State of the Union gives the president a high-profile chance to issue a call to action on election security legislation he has pressured Republicans to ram through over Democratic opposition.

While Republicans stood and applauded for two minutes, at least one Democratic lawmaker in the room shouted “you killed Americans,” a reference to two citizens shot and killed by federal agents in Minnesota in January.

The U.S. federal judiciary on Tuesday asked Congress to give it the power to manage its own courthouses and shift authority away from the executive branch, saying decades of inadequate oversight exacerbated by recent actions by President Donald Trump's administration had left them in "crisis.

Trump will have his largest annual audience — 36.6 million tuned in to last year’s address to Congress — to make the case that he and the Republican Party have the strongest policies to tackle the high cost of living and to blame Democrats under former President Joe Biden for causing the problems.

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Republicans and Democrats in the House chamber stood to applaud President Trump’s call for Congress to stop insider trading among members. Insider trading is illegal for lawmakers, but members of both parties have pushed in recent years for restrictions on trading beyond current disclosure rules.

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