Trump says he is 'just getting started' during fiery address to US Congress

The 99-minute address added up to a defiant sales pitch for the policies that Trump promised during his campaign and leaned into during his first weeks back in office

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. Picture: AP Photo/Alex Brandon

US president Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to keep up his campaign of “swift and unrelenting action” in reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy in an unyielding address before the US Congress that left Democratic legislators to register their dissent with stone faces, placards calling out “lies,” and one legislator’s ejection.

Mr Trump’s speech was the latest marker in his takeover of the nation’s capital, where the Republican-led House and Senate have done little to restrain the president as he and his allies work to slash the size of the federal government and remake America’s place in the world.