Trump is now returning to his favourite talking point, immigration.

He calls attention to the family of Laken Riley sitting in the Capitol.

Riley was a college nursing student killed in 2024 by an illegal immigrant , an incident which Trump and the Republican party repeatedly pointed to as the effects of "Biden's open border policies".

"That's why the very first bill I signed into law as your 47th president mandates the detention of all dangerous criminal aliens who threaten public safety," Trump says.

"We are getting them out and we are getting them out fast."

The Laken Riley Act was the first bill Trump signed in his first term, which received bipartisan support.

During Biden's last State of the Union in 2024, Republicans jeered him for the student's killing, shouting at him to say her name in the address. He thanks Tom Homan, his leader of the Immigration Customs Enforcement agency, and Kristi Noem, his Department of Homeland Security secretary.

Samantha Granville
Reporting from Texas

The bar originally had put the address on in a tucked away area for the Young Republican viewing party. Now it has turned all its TVs onto Fox News.

I went to a group of men who are sitting at a high-top eating wings and drinking beers. It’s their Tuesday night ritual.

I asked them how they thought the president was doing so far.

“We don’t have to watch to know he’s kicking ass,” they told me

"Since taking office, my administration has launched the most sweeping border and immigration crackdown in American history - and we quickly achieved the lowest numbers of illegal border crossers ever recorded," Trump says.

"The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation to secure the border... but it turned out that all we really needed was a new president."

It is correct that illegal border crossings have plunged to their lowest level in years, but there is context missing from Trump's claim. Stay with us as we bring you analysis and fact checking of some of Trump's remarks.

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Trump praises his wife, Melania, who he says has "devoted herself" to the foster community, and her two guests who were helped by the First Lady's programs.

He mentions the Take It Down Act - which would make it a crime to post non-consensual intimate imagery online. Melania visited Capitol Hill on Monday to press for passage of the legislation.

Trump says he "[looks] forward to signing that into law".

"I'm gonna use that for myself... nobody gets treated worse than I do online," the president says.

Trump says the US has received $1.7t worth of new investments "in just the past few weeks".

Trump says the investments include: $200b from SoftBank, $500b from OpenAI and Oracle, $500b from Apple, and $165b from a Taiwan semiconducter manufacturer.

On Monday, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company promised to invest at least $100b to grow its US manufacturing operations.

Trump says these investments were achieved without "giving them any money".

He then criticizes the Biden-era Chips Act and says "it's a horrible thing", adding "you should get rid of it".

Many of those investments so far are pledges to build up manufacturing in the country, and the money has not been deployed yet.

"Tariffs are not just about protecting American jobs, but protecting the soul of our country," says Trump, adding that the steep levies he has and will impose on goods from other countries will help fulfil his pledge of "making America rich again".

"There will be a little disturbance but we're OK with that. It won't be much," he says.

"Look where Biden took us - very low, the lowest we've ever been."

"I love our farmers," Trump says.

He says that tariffs will help them produce and sell their agricultural products at home.

But he adds there "might be a bit of an indigestion period", but over time, it will help.

"I love you too," he says in a message to US farmers.

Many of the tariffs that Canada is imposing in retaliation for the new levies Trump has put in place have to do with agriculture, and China is a key buyer of US food goods. Meanwhile, the US is a net importer of agriculture - it brings in more from other countries than it exports.

Canada and Mexico have "allowed fentanyl to come in to our country at levels never seen before", the president says.

It's "killing hundreds and thousands", he says, and "destroying families".

He says the two countries are getting billions of dollars in subsidies from the US.

"We're not going to do that any longer," he says.

The White House has said that the steep tariffs the US is now imposing on goods from Canada and Mexico are meant to press the countries to stem the flow of fentanyl and migrants into the US. Canada contends that it is not a major supplier of fentanyl to the US.

Anthony Zurcher
North America correspondent

Donald Trump once again promised to balance the budget in tonight’s speech, prompting a round of applause from Republican legislators. He provided no details about the kind of steep spending cuts such a promise would require.

In fact, he quickly turned to discussing the tax cuts he hopes Congress will enact – including his campaign promises of no taxes on tips, overtime or Social Security.

Any of those cuts, if enacted, would add hundreds of billions of dollars to the current nearly $2tn budget deficit.

Samantha Granville
Reporting from Texas

Daniel Wong threw his fists up in the air when President Trump gave a shout out to Doge and Elon Musk.

“He’s cutting all the fat from the government,” he said to me.

“Why should I care about transgender mice?” he asked me while referencing a budget item from the President’s list of wasteful spending he says has been uncovered.

When I asked if Musk is the right person to do the job, Daniel said he trusts Musk’s business mind, and trusts that Trump will oversee him correctly since he’s not a cabinet-level appointee.

For background: There is some dispute over the programmes and the spending levels that Trump says Doge has identified.

Trump in the last 24 hours has launched new 25% tariffs on goods from US neighbours Canada and Mexico, and doubled tariffs on Chinese products to 20%.

With those countries planning reciprocal tariffs, the US is finding itself at the beginning of the trade war.

In his speech, Trump doesn't back down.

The President slams the EU, India, Mexico and Brazil, adding that "many other nations" also have trade policies that are unfair to Americans.

"This is happening by friend and foe," he says, adding that 2 April is when "reciprocal tariffs kick in".

"Whatever they tax us, we will tax them," he says, explaining how the tariffs will work. The US has historically charged lower tariffs than those levied by many of its trading partners.

"We will take in trillions and trillions of dollars and create jobs like we have never seen before," he says.

"We've been ripped off for decades by every country on Earth, and we will not let that happen any longer."

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Trump says that car manufacturing plants are "opening up all over the place" in the US.

"That's a combination of the election win - and tariffs, it's a beautiful word isn't it?"

Tariffs, he says, along with the White House's other policies, "will allow our auto industry to absolutely boom".

This week, the Trump administration enacted sweeping tariffs against Mexico and Canada. Each country has announced retaliatory tariffs, raising concerns of a trade war that economists say are going to raise prices for everyone.

"Other countries have used tariffs against us for decades, and now it's our turn," he says.

Trump plans to implement "reciprocal tariffs" in the near future. The US will raise its tariff rate for goods from another country to whatever that country's levies on US products.

Rachel Looker
Reporting from Capitol Hill

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Trump has just said: “the days of unelected bureaucrats are over”.

This led to an outcry from Democrats who pointed up to the gallery at Elon Musk.

They have been angry at the massive spending cuts and freezes, mostly in the form of laying off thousands of federal workers, that Musk has led through his White House team called Doge (for Department of Government Efficiency, even though it is not a cabinet-level agency).

More Democrats are holding “Musk steals” signs.

Anthony Zurcher
North America correspondent

Donald Trump’s speech started with a victory lap. Then it turned into a laundry list.

Cheered on by the Republican legislators who fill half of the room, the president boasted about the size of his electoral victory in November and gave an extensive recitation of his actions and accomplishments in his six weeks in office.

When he pivoted to talk about how he plans to address the economy and inflation, he devoted considerable time ticking through a long litany of what he said was wasteful foreign spending and purported examples of fraud and abuse in domestic social programs.

It was as though Elon Musk’s “wall of receipts” that he posts on his Doge website had come to life on the House of Representatives rostrum.

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The president next touts "tax cuts for everybody", and urges Democrats to vote through those proposed changes.

"I'm sure you're going to vote for those tax cuts", Trump says, aiming his comments at the Democrats in the room, "because otherwise I don't think the people will ever vote you in to office".

"But I know this group is going to be voting for the tax cuts," he adds - pointing to the Republicans to loud cheers from the group.

Trump now returns to the economy.

"I want to do what has not been done in 24 years, balance the federal budget," he says.

The line comes at an interesting time as the threat of a government shutdown over disagreements about the federal budget divides lawmakers in Congress.

Trump touts his recent visa proposal - "a gold card" sold for $5m providing a path to citizenship - as a way to help bring the budget in balance.

"We have developed in great detail what we are calling the gold card - which goes on sale very, very soon - for $5m," Trump says.

"While we take out the criminals, killers, traffickers, and child predators... we will now bring in brilliant, hardworking, job-creating people.

"They're going to pay a lot of money and we're going to reduce our debt with that money."

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Back now to the speech, where Trump is saying that regulations have "held back our potential".

"A country founded by pioneers," he says, referring to the US, "now drowns under millions of pages of regulations and debt".

"Meanwhile, you have tens of thousands of workers not showing up for work... We will restore true democracy to America again."

"The days of unelected bureaucrats are over," he says.

Since he took office, he has moved to stop federal employees from working, either by firing them or placing them on administrative leave.

Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from Capitol Hill

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I've just had a second listen of what Al Green briefly told reporters a few moments ago in the chaotic minutes following his exit from the chamber.

Green, a Texas Democrat, told reporters he was removed after yelling that Trump had “no mandate” to cut Medicaid, which he said many of his constituents rely on.

“It’s worth it to let people know that there are some people who are going to stand up”, to the president, he said.

He is unsure if he will be subject to any formal punishment for his behaviour, but said he was willing to accept it.

Rachel Looker
Reporting from Capitol Hill

Several House Democrats just removed their blazers to reveal t-shirts that read “resist”.

They stood up in protest of Trump’s speech and exited the chamber.

As the speech goes on, we want to take you back for a moment to Trump praising Doge's work, and thanking Elon Musk and his group of "mostly young people".

The president claims they are finding people well over 200 years old still claiming Social Security. For context, there have been questions about whether this is true or if it's a misreading of the data.

"We're searching right now," the president says.

"Good luck," he adds, speaking to US Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Some Democrats shout "false" throughout this section of Trump's speech.