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Under the Congressional Review Act, Congress can vote to disapprove any federal rule within 60 days of issuance.
Also, Republican leaders are expected to unveil a short-term funding bill by this weekend.
They plan to vote on the measure next week before the March 14th government funding deadline.
Watch live coverage of the House when members return here on C-SPAN.
Tonight, watch C-SPAN's live coverage of President Trump's address to Congress, the first address of his second term, and less than two months since taking office.
C-SPAN's live coverage begins at 8 p.m. Eastern with a preview of the evening from Capitol Hill, followed by the President's speech, which begins at 9 p.m. Eastern.
And then watch the Democratic response after the President's speech.
We'll also take your calls and get your reaction on social media.
Over on C-SPAN 2, you can also watch a simulcast of the evening's coverage, followed by reaction from lawmakers live from Capitol Hill.
Watch President Trump's address to Congress live tonight, beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN, our simulcast live on C-SPAN 2, or on C-SPAN Now, our free mobile video app.
On the front page, Trump says his speech will, quote, tell it like it is.
President Trump will double down on his America First Agenda Tuesday night, that's tonight, when he commands the stage for a joint session of Congress and makes the case for smaller government, more tariffs, and stricter immigration.
He promised a speech would lay it out for the American people.
Quote, Tomorrow night will be big.
I will tell it like it is, Mr. Trump said Monday on social media.
The president will outline the blueprint that got him elected in November and tie it to the flurry of action he has taken in his first six weeks in office.
He is expected to argue that those actions are key to implementing the drastic changes voters sent him to the White House to enact.
And we will have coverage of that speech in its entirety tonight.
Our live coverage will start at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.
The speech is expected to start at 9 p.m.
You can watch it here on C-SPAN, also on C-SPAN 2, and it'll be on our app, C-SPANNOW and online at c-span.org.
Let's take a look at Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer.
He was on the Senate floor on Monday, and he talked about what he says voters care about and how Democrats will respond.
And we'll go to the phones now and start with Antone in Berkeley, California, Independent.
Good morning.
unidentified
Yes, good morning.
I am not going to watch President Trump this evening for these reasons.
One, everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie.
Two, he assaults women.
Three, he's a convicted felon on 34 counts, and now he is in bed with Russia.
And as a child, I remember having to go under deaths at my grade school because of Russia's threat to attack the United States.
I remember provisions in the basement because Russia threatened to attack the United States.
And I remember kneeling down in the hallway, okay, for air raid drills because Russia attacked the United States, and every home had a bomb shelter built in it because of this.
And now this president is in bed with Mr. Putin.
So I don't even want to look at this man.
I think he's thoroughly disgusted and disgusting.
And anybody who supports this man is just as sick and disgusting as he is.
Here's Brian in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Republican.
Good morning, Brian.
unidentified
Hi there.
How are you doing today?
Good.
So today's discussion about Donald Trump, you know, a lot of people say they don't like Donald Trump, but I think he's, I don't really think there's a problem with him.
So basically, I've never met Mr. Trump personally, but I know that he had a lot of involvement with the annucators on Tweet Street.
Yeah, me and my friend Hunter Cullen.
Sorry, I have a bit of a cold.
Friend Hunter Cullen were talking about Trump's policies and how a lot of people thought that he's a bad guy and just because he's a felon, that indicates, you know, that's an indicator that he's not capable of running the country.
Well, you've got to keep in mind, all the protesters were harvesting a felon in 2013.
No, I will not be watching Trump sit up there and make a complete fool out of the American people.
First of all, he ran on getting rid of the illegal immigrants, in which nobody in this world is illegal because we are all God's children.
So he has accomplished that.
But he also ran over getting the price of eggs and milk down.
That did not happen.
And when did he say when he got in there that he was going to get rid of the Americans and their jobs?
How in the world can you be America first and you got in there and went after legal people in this country, if you want to say it, taking their jobs, the federal workers' jobs, putting people, how could you do that?
And you said you were president of all the people.
That is impossible.
Now you got people around here don't buy homes and then all this stuff that he's doing with Elon Musk.
Elon Musk was not elected to anything.
You said you don't care for immigrants.
Why do you have an immigrant running this country and you just sitting there letting it happen?
So what he's going to say tonight will mean nothing to the American people.
People miss us out here hurting because this man came in here and hurt the American people, not the immigrants.
I think Donald Trump is going to spew a series of lies about his alignment with Russia, about what he's trying to do to allow Elon Musk to essentially monetize the American government to enrich Musk and his billionaire crowd.
We are going to stop their destruction of democracy, which they have to do because what they are attempting to do, gut Medicaid in order to feed another set of tax cuts to Elon Musk and his billionaire friends.
And this is Bloomberg saying, Americans want Trump to do more for the economy, according to two polls.
It says that two polls signaled that President Donald Trump risks putting off Americans worried about the economy and inflation with the broad flurry of measures during his first weeks in office.
While about 80% of adults surveyed said Trump should home in on the economy and inflation, they said they believed his top priorities were the U.S.-Mexico border, his effort to slim the federal workforce, and tariffs.
Only 29% said Trump was prioritizing inflation a lot, and 36% said the same about the economy.
Wonder what you think about that, and we'll hear from Kathy in Colorado Independent.
Good morning.
unidentified
Good morning.
No, I will not.
I agree with the First Lady.
I agree with Kathleen.
No, it's just going to be stand up and tell a bunch of lies, just like he always does.
So no, I would not watch either.
Yes, I do think the Democrats should boycott it.
Why sit through that?
Why put yourself through misery to listen to all this BS from him?
And another thing I'd like to say, I tried to call, I believe it was Friday, when you were asking about how to cut the budget down.
One thing that could be done is Trump could keep his butt at the White House and do his job instead of running to his golf courses, Mar-a-Lago every few days, the Super Bowl, the IndyCar race.
Give me a break.
Let's talk about taxpayers' money going to nothing but a bunch of users.
And that's exactly what he is doing.
That's why he wants to be president.
He wants to use people in this country.
He wants to use the government, just like Elon Musk.
He wants to use the government to keep getting rich, to keep getting power.
And I cannot believe that people cannot see through him.
And here is Mike, Norwalk, Ohio, Independent Line.
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MIMI.
Boy, that last guy, that's a perfect example of what we're dealing with here in America.
Of course, I'm going to watch Trump.
He's opened my eyes for the last six weeks of them being, us American citizens being ripped off by the government and that bureaucracy behind you there, Mimi.
It's just unconceivable how people just can't understand or open their eyes and see the exact facts that are going on.
There's theft, trillions of dollars that have been stolen from us.
And people are more or less worried about Trump.
Trump didn't rip us off.
Your representatives ripped us off.
I'm talking Democrats and Republicans.
Now, Trump's going to try to fix this because it's such a mess.
And it's going to take more than six weeks to fix the mess that Biden created in four years.
And as far as him being out of the office, wasn't Biden out of office for 570-something days because nobody wanted to, they didn't want us to see how incompetent he really was.
This is on the front page of the Wall Street Journal: U.S. Halts Arms for Ukraine in Sharp Turn Away from Ally.
That is, it says that the U.S. will pause all military aid to Kyiv until President Trump determines that President Zelensky of Ukraine is making a good faith effort toward peace negotiations with Russia, according to the White House.
This is Joey, Atlanta, Republican.
unidentified
Yes, I just know that it's amazing how these Democrats are so pathetic.
It's amazing how they could call and spread their hate and lies.
It's just amazing.
I don't understand why they can't put their hate to the side and give this president a chance.
I mean, it's amazing how they are so angry.
They hate this man for everything he's done, everything he could do.
He could do anything that's going to make this country great.
And they will not give this guy a chance.
They won't even give him a chance to prove himself.
So, what are the topics you want him to talk about that you're going to be listening for?
unidentified
Well, I mean, I tell you that just the things alone, immigration, how immigration alone has been turned around.
The Democrats were saying and yelling that we had a broken system.
What if it was so broken?
Why in less than a month, the system has already been proven that it has worked?
It's just that the Democrats never wanted to have a secure border.
And it's just amazing how much waste and abuse has been going on in this country.
And these politicians have been passing, just putting things under the rug and not addressing the issues.
It's just amazing how this guy in less than 30 days has done so much, so much.
You can see it.
You can hear it.
Everybody's talking about it.
The guy's a good man.
He's not perfect, but he's a good man.
And you could tell that he loves this country.
And for Democrats to just twist everything that he does and turn it around to make it look like he's trying to destroy America, why would anybody, why would anybody want to destroy if he is such an evil person?
What would benefit him by destroying America, by destroying the economy, by destroying our people?
What would be the benefit for someone that they say he's so hateful?
And I really wish that, well, after tonight's speech, which I won't be watching because I'll be sleeping because I got to work early, is going to be a tomorrow's Monday morning quarterbacks.
unidentified
All of the Republican or conservative stations are going to be saying, What a great speech.
It was fantastic.
It's so positive for the country.
And then every liberal station, which outnumber the conservative stations, at least three or four to one, will be saying, It was the worst thing ever.
Oh, my gosh.
The end of the world is coming and we'll never be able to do anything for the country.
Oh, well, the Democrats really, I wish they would get off the Al Sharpton scenario.
And oh well, by the way, the guy for Joe Biden, Joe Biden didn't take, he didn't let Elon Musk come in and take everyone's personal information and social security numbers and wreck this country.
unidentified
What this president is doing is destroying this country.
You can be red, you can be blue, but you're going to be filling the blues when you watch Trump.
And he's giving it to all of us.
And it needs to stop.
Because Donald Trump is nothing but a crimer.
He's criming.
He's grifting this country out of billions of dollars.
Kerry, since you mentioned Zelensky, let's show up a portion of President Trump with reporters in the Oval Office yesterday about what he says it will take to restart talks with President Zelensky.
Well, I just think you should be more appreciative because this country has stuck with them through thick and thin.
We've given them much more than Europe, and Europe should have given more than us because, as you know, that's right there.
That's the border.
This country really was like the fence on the border.
It was very important to Europe.
And I'm not knocking Europe.
I'm saying that just they were a lot smarter than Joe Biden because Joe Biden didn't have a clue.
He just gave money hand over fist, and they should have been able to equalize with us.
In other words, if we gave a dollar, they should have given.
Well, we gave $350 billion.
They probably gave $100.
But on top of it all, they get their money back because they're doing it in the form of a loan, and it's a secured loan.
So when I saw that, which I've known about for a little while, I said it's time for us to be smart.
At the same time, it's great for them because they get us in the country taking the rare earth, which is going to fuel this big engine and especially the engine that we've in a very short time created.