As Washington sought Wednesday to make sense of President Donald Trump’s joint discourse against Congress, the Republicans of the House of Representatives saw that the speech was “overwhelmingly well”, while the Democrats said it was “one of the most partisan and divisive speeches” ever pronounced by a president.
The Republican President of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, and the minority leader of the Chamber of Democratic Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, appeared in “Good Morning America” of ABC News on Wednesday, presenting the different opinions of their parties about Trump’s joint discourse against Congress.
“That was one of the most partisan and divisive speeches delivered by an American president,” Jeffries told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News.
The leader of the representatives’s chamber minority, Hakeem Jeffries, appears in “Good Morning America” of ABC News on March 5, 2025.
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Trump spoke with the thunder applause of the republican majority in the camera and the Senate, but faced the graphics of some strident democrats.
“The speech last night was overwhelmingly well,” Johnson said Wednesday in “GMA.” “It was not a speech for the main media, it was a speech for the American people.”
During the speech, the representative to Green, a 11 period Democrat who represents the Houston area, stood up and pointed his cane on the stand and shouted: “You have no mandate to cut Medicaid.” He was escorted from the camera.
The Democrats resorted to “meanness”, and their protests during the speech amounted to a “a sad matter,” Johnson said on Wednesday. He pointed to Green “trying to interrupt the entire procedure”
The president of the house, Mike Johnson, appears in “Good Morning America” of ABC News on March 5, 2025.
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“If the Democrats want a 77 -year -old congressman to be the face of his resistance, he yearn for the president, then bring it,” said Johnson. “But we couldn’t allow that on the floor of the house.”
Jeffries replied, saying that the “vast majority” of the Democrats “showed moderation, heard what the president had to say.” He said “strongly” did not agree with Johnson’s characterization.
“The biggest problem I had with the speech, nothing was said, nothing presented, nothing articulated by Donald Trump to meet the needs of the US people, particularly in regard to the economy,” he said.
The president praised Elon Musk, the magnate of multimillionaire technology and his government efficiency department, which has been occupied by cutting the federal government.
Johnson shrugged that Musk seemed to some being an “bureaucrat not chosen”, saying that it was equivalent to a “patriotic American.”
“He is doing a great service for the country and should be applauded,” he said.
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, on Tuesday, March 4, 2025.
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Trump defended the tariffs he put into practice on Tuesday on goods in Mexico and China, along with the largest tariffs in Chinese products.
“Tariffs are not just about protecting US works, it is about protecting the soul of our country. Tariffs are trying to make the United States return to rich,” Trump said during the speech.
But Jeffries pointed out problems of the kitchen table that, he said, the president has not focused enough.
“Donald Trump promised to reduce costs. In fact, he promised to reduce costs the first day,” he said. “We know that the prices of the groceries are not going down, they are rising, inflation is rising and the stock market is going down, which is harming the retirement security of everyday Americans.”
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