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President Trump will make his first address to a joint session of Congress at 9 p.m. ET.
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President Trump to a joint session of Congress. In his speech, which is scheduled to begin shortly after 9 p.m., Trump is expected to discuss Obamacare repeal, his budget demands, and, , immigration-reform legislation. In an interview on , Trump he would give himself a good grade for what his administration has achieved so far, but a it is investigating last week’s shooting of two Indian men in a Kansas bar as a hate crime. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner a manhunt is underway after two police officers were shot responding to a burglary.

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