Promises Trump has kept, or not kept, from his 2025 joint session of Congress speech

Published February 22, 2026 6:00am ET



During President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress last March, he triumphantly declared, “America is back.”

Although it wasn’t an official State of the Union speech, he attempted to offer the nation his vision for the next year of his term, akin to the usual annual address presidents give to Congress.

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