President Donald Trump is minutes away from delivering his State of the Union address in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday at 9 P.M. ET, with the president eager to show results for his economic promises.
This address comes at a perilous time for Trump, with polls indicating he is sinking on issues including the economy ahead of the midterm elections that loom less than nine months away. Those elections threaten to change control of Washington by Republicans.
Trump will speak days after the Supreme Court overruled the tariffs that have underpinned much of his economic policy and as he awaits another decision from the high court on how much authority he has over the Federal Reserve. Trump is also weighing military action in Iran and contending with a lingering shutdown of the Homeland Security Department spurred by Democratic concerns about overreach by the department’s law…
