A majority of Americans no longer believe he’s doing a good job. Republicans in Congress are increasingly willing to resist his agenda.
Whatever President Donald Trump lays out in the first true State of the Union address of his second presidency, he will be up against some serious headwinds.
In recent weeks, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted to revoke the president’s tariffs on Canada. The Republican-led Senate has not taken up the president’s election security bill, the SAVE Act, resisting his demands to get rid of the filibuster to move it past Democratic opposition. Republican leadership has deemed his proposal to cap credit card interest rates at 10% for one year effectively DOA.