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Florida calls for investigation after Cuba reports killing four on US boat
Every delay has consequences.

Florida officials are demanding an “immediate investigation” into Cuban border patrol officers’ killing of four people on a boat from the United States.

The Cuban Embassy in the U.S. claimed Wednesday that its border patrol was shot at by people in a U.S.-registered vessel approximately 1 nautical mile from the island, reporting that “four aggressors on the foreign vessel were killed and six were injured.”

“In the face of current challenges, Cuba reaffirms its determination to protect its territorial waters, based on the principle that national defense is a fundamental pillar of the Cuban State in safeguarding its sovereignty and ensuring stability in the region,” the embassy said in a statement.

“Investigations by the competent authorities continue in order to fully clarify the events,” it added.

Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) was among the first U.S. officials to react to the news, issuing a statement via social media.

“I am calling for an immediate investigation into this massacre,” Gimenez said. “United States authorities must determine whether any of the victims were U.S. citizens or legal residents and establish exactly what occurred. The regime in Cuba must be relegated to the dustbin of history for its countless crimes against humanity.”

The Florida congressman’s office is reportedly requesting further details from the State Department and U.S. military authorities.

Gimenez’s demands were immediately co-signed by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who added that the “Communist Cuban regime must be held accountable!”

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced immediately after the statement that has “directed the Office of Statewide Prosecution to work with our federal, state, and law enforcement partners to begin an investigation.”

“The Cuban government cannot be trusted, and we will do everything in our power to hold these communists accountable,” Uthmeier wrote.

The incident could not come at a worse time for Cuba, which is suffering under crippling economic penalties imposed by President Donald Trump, who accused the regime of politically and materially supporting hostile actors such as Hamas and Russia.

INSIDE THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S EFFORTS TO PRESSURE CUBA’S COMMUNIST REGIME OUT

The White House has imposed sweeping sanctions that not only uphold fuel embargoes but also implement tariffs against foreign governments supplying oil to the island.

The fuel shortage in Cuba has become dire, leading to blackouts across the country, …

GOP to campaign on Democrats picking illegal immigrants over Americans at State of the Union
Are they actually going to vote on something real?

National Republicans believe they were handed an early midterm elections present during Tuesday’s State of the Union address, when President Donald Trump baited Democrats into going on the record and opposing that the duty of the federal government is to protect U.S. citizens, not illegal immigrants.

The House GOP’s campaign arm is already betting the split-screen moment will resonate with voters and plans to use the viral moment to portray Democrats in must-win seats as out of touch.

“Every single vulnerable House Democrat should get comfortable re-watching the moment they revealed they’re nothing more than America-hating scums who stayed glued to their seats while President Trump called on protecting American citizens over criminal illegal immigrants,” National Republican Campaign Committee spokesperson Mike Marinella said in the statement to the Washington Examiner. “The ads write themselves.”

Republican members of Congress stand while Democrats keep their seats during President Donald Trump¥s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The NRCC is prevented by election regulations from using footage of the House floor in campaign ads. The prohibition will likely force GOP groups to get creative as they won’t be able to use the actual clip of Trump and the seated Democrats.

On Wednesday, the NRCC sent out emails and press releases targeting vulnerable Democrats on the issue, such as Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), Adam Gray (D-CA), and Henry Cuellar (D-TX) for remaining seated.  

“Henry Cuellar choose[s] illegals over Texans,” one release is titled. It links to a New York Post article featuring Trump saying the Democrats should be “ashamed.”

The National Republican Senatorial Committee also reposted multiple posts on X blasting Democrats for sitting during Trump’s speech when the president spoke about a handful of citizens who were killed by illegal immigrants.

“President Trump is right that Democrats like Jon Ossoff should be ashamed for refusing to stand up,” NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “They made it clear to every American that their allegiance is to illegals, and it will be another reason voters reject Democrats again in 2026.”

Not a single Democrat stood up last night when asked if they would put American citizens before illegals.@AshleyMoodyFL to …

Thune floats White House lifeline for unpaid DHS workers as shutdown drags on
This is performative politics again.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) says a prolonged shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security may require the White House to step in and pay workers who are forgoing paychecks at critical agencies such as the Transportation Security Administration.   

“Anything you can do to keep people employed,” Thune told reporters Wednesday. “If they can figure out a way to pay government employees, absolutely. These are people who have jobs and have commitments and have families.”

DHS ENTERS SHUTDOWN AFTER CONGRESS SKIPS TOWN WITHOUT DEAL ON ICE

Thune’s position underscored the lack of progress with reaching a deal on Senate Democrats’ demands to restrict President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda in exchange for funding DHS, which houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement and has been shuttered since Feb. 14. The approach would take away pressure on Democrats while allowing Republicans to sidestep the scrutiny of passing a spending bill that omits ICE.

Trump’s massive tax and spending package that passed last year funds ICE into 2029, including during the shutdown, lowering pressure to fund the agency immediately.

During negotiations prior to the partial shutdown, Democrats pushed to fund everything under DHS except ICE to limit the shutdown’s impact, and wanted Congress to appropriate the funds rather than the administration shuffling money around as it did for defense spending during last year’s shutdown.

But Thune suggested the White House could step in for unpaid workers under DHS, including the Coast Guard and Secret Service.

“Part of it’s going to depend on how much authority they have to do that, what access to resources to do that,” Thune added to the Washington Examiner. “But anything you can do to keep people working.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks to members of the media at the Capitol, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

The White House did not provide comment.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the ball is in Republicans’ court to fund DHS and that they have yet to receive a counterproposal after making their latest offer to the White House more than a week ago.

“That’s up to the Republicans. Very simply, all they have to do is agree with our simple ideas that every police department — just about — in America follows, and we’ll get it all done,” Schumer said. “It’s plain and simple.”

WINTER STORMS COLLIDE WITH SHUTDOWN FIGHT, PUTTING PRESSURE ON FEMA

Trump made a …

The State of the Union: Trump Comeback Is Bigger Than the Biden Setback
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.

The American story is one of resilient comebacks. And as we celebrate our 250th year as a nation under the leadership of President Donald Trump, we’re witnessing perhaps the greatest comeback of them all—especially for Main Street USA.  

As the president illustrated last night at his State of the Union address, America is awakening from a yearslong winter of managed decline under the heavy hand of big government. Today, we’re glimpsing the rekindled lights of our nation’s greatness on the horizon by putting America First—and reigniting the free enterprise system that powers opportunity.

During the Biden administration, the flame of our nation’s towering economic strength, rooted in capitalism and exceptionalism, was nearly extinguished. Under the crushing weight of Bidenomics and socialist welfare policies, massive inflation, red tape, bad trade deals, and a growing bureaucracy, families and small businesses faced devastating setbacks in earnings, savings, and homeownership.  

Wasteful government spending drove consumer prices to 40-year highs. Green New Deal regulations added $6 trillion in new costs for households and business owners. Unfair trade deals shuttered thousands of factories and made us dependent on adversaries. Stark images of fraudsters receiving billions in taxpayer benefits only added insult to injury for every American job creator, worker, and family who was left behind.  

In just over 12 months, Trump has restored confidence and opportunity to Main Street with a commonsense economic agenda designed to put hardworking families and small businesses—not Washington bureaucrats, illegal aliens, or coastal elites—in the driver’s seat.  

Four years of broken policies won’t dissipate overnight. But with pro-worker, pro-growth incentives like tax cuts, deregulation, and fair trade, Main Street business owners are beginning to hire, expand, and invest again. These are the early rays of light dawning for workers and communities across America.

The data speaks for itself. Despite the continuous mainstream media doomcasting, core inflation has reached its lowest level in nearly five years. In the last three months of 2025, the average rate was just 1.7%—compared to the average 5% during the last administration.

As importantly, wages are finally rising faster than inflation, and interest rates have come down. In Trump’s first year, real earnings outpaced inflation by nearly $1,400.

American families and workers have more money in their pockets with higher hourly earnings and lower prices.

Job growth is accelerating where it matters most—in the private sector. The economy added 172,000 new private-sector jobs in January, particularly in construction and specialty trade jobs. Growth is coming from the builders, manufacturers, entrepreneurs, and innovators—not bureaucratic expansion.

The America First agenda is also restoring industrial strength. With $18 trillion in outside investment commitments secured by Trump thanks to fair trade and tax incentives, manufacturing activity expanded at its fastest pace since 2022. More businesses are building and producing domestically—lowering prices, securing our supply chains, and restoring …

5-Year-Old’s Near-Death Experience Moves Congress to Stop Illegals From Truck Driving
Who's accountable for the results?

Congressional Republicans are pushing to prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining Commercial Driver’s Licenses in the wake of President Donald Trump acknowledging five-year-old Dalilah Coleman during his State of the Union address.

Coleman was nearly killed in 2022 by Partap Singh, an illegal immigrant truck driver in California, after he did not stop his 18-wheeler at a stop sign.

“Many, if not most, illegal aliens do not speak English and cannot read even the most basic road signs as to direction, speed, danger, or location,” Trump said.

“President Trump is spot on: left-wing lunatics like Gavin Newsom are getting Americans killed by giving out driver’s licenses to illegals,” Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., told The Daily Signal.

Barr and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., introduced the Secure Commercial Driver Licensing Act in October to prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining Commercial Driver’s Licenses, or CDLs for short.

The Secure Commercial Driver Licensing Act aims to prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining CDLs through a more rigorous permitting process and adding accountability measures.

The bill requires all testing related to the issuance or renewal of CDL’s and non-domiciled CDL’s to be conducted only in English.

The bill also directs the Secretary of Transportation the authority to revoke a state’s authority to issue non-domiciled CDLs if found non-compliant with federal standards and to require individuals to hold a standard driver’s license for one year before obtaining a CDL.

The president endorsing the idea of preventing illegal immigrants from obtaining CDLs at the State of the Union could serve as a boon to the Republicans’ efforts.

Barr’s office confirmed with The Daily Signal that the legislation will augment efforts to achieve justice for Coleman.

“That’s why Senator Cotton and I are leading the charge to put an end to this by punishing states that do this and requiring all testing for CDL’s to be in English,” Barr added.

As recently reported by The Daily Signal, states like California outsource the vetting and training process for drivers to third party driving schools, which often go with little verification from government authorities.

“States issue CDLs based on the say-so of driving schools. Many drivers have never had a representative from Department of Motor Vehicles with them in the vehicle during a driving test,” Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies Mark Krikorian told The Daily Signal.

Cotton echoed Barr’s remarks and told The Daily Signal that by administering CDL’s to illegal migrants “who can’t read English road signs,” Democrats continue to endanger Americans.

Barr described the bill as “common-sense legislation to end this dangerous practice and require commercial drivers to pass an English-only test.”

Other Republican legislators, such as Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., Sen. Tommy Tubberville, R-Ala., and Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., backed conservative efforts to crack down on illegal immigrant truck drivers.

“When it comes to preventing illegal aliens from obtaining commercial driver’s licenses, anyone who is against this policy has lost all semblance of common sense,” …

FBI subpoenaed Kash Patel and Susie Wiles phone records in federal Trump investigation
Equal justice apparently isn't equal anymore.

The FBI subpoenaed Kash Patel's and Susie Wiles' phone records in 2022 and 2023, when both were private citizens and as part of a federal probe into Donald Trump, Fox News has confirmed.
Patel is currently FBI director and Wiles is White House chief of staff.
Reuters first disclosed the subpoenas, which happened during the Biden administration while Special Counsel Jack Smith was investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and his handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
In a statement to Fox News, Patel called the move "outrageous and deeply alarming." 
"It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records – along with those of now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles – using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight," he said.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

MAGA voter crashes 'scumbag' Dem senator's SOTU boycott speech: 'Go Trump!'
This is why trust is collapsing.

Democrats were mocked on social media Tuesday night and Wednesday after multiple clips from their State of the Union boycott rally went viral, including when a Trump supporter crashed Sen. Chris Murphy's, D-Conn., speech.
The "People’s State of the Union," which is what the Democrats called their boycott rally, included several Democratic lawmakers like Murphy, Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., among others.
"Go, Trump!" the protester said while throwing up the peace sign in front of Murphy, who was on the stage at the time and watched as security pulled the man away from the podium.
HOUSE GOP MOVES TO CENSURE DEM WHO DISRUPTED TRUMP ADDRESS FOR 2ND STRAIGHT YEAR
"Hey Murphy, you’re a scumbag," the protester said.
"Thanks, buddy," Murphy replied.
Audiences online immediately began mocking the incident and hailing the Trump supporter as an American "patriot."
"A patriot CRASHED the Democrats’ little counter-State of the Union out in front of the Capitol, making his way on stage. Tonight was just a MASSIVE, all-around failure for Democrats," one commentator said in a post to social media. 
While the group struggled to attract supporters, Democratic lawmakers flocked to the event as a reason to skip President Donald Trump’s address on Tuesday.
TRUMP GETS HIGH MARKS FROM REPUBLICANS WHEN TICKING OFF ECONOMIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Over 20 Democrats from both chambers of Congress attended the event, including Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., Merkley., Murphy, Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Tina Smith, D-Minn.
From the House of Representatives, members who joined included Reps. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., Becca Balint, D-Vt., Greg Casar, D-Texas, Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., John Larson, D-Conn., Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., Emily Randall, D-Wash., and Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J.
These Democrats framed the event as a way to address the country's state in their own words.
"I am not at the State of the Union speech tonight because Donald Trump is making a mockery of this institution, and he doesn’t deserve an audience," Murphy said.
"I am not at the State of the Union speech tonight because these are not normal times and Democrats have to stop behaving normally," he added.
TRUMP'S 'HOME RUN' SOTU SPEECH SPARKS PRAISE FROM CONSERVATIVES ONLINE WHILE LEAVING DEMOCRATS SEETHING
Viewers online, however, mocked the effort as little more than a partisan tantrum.
"COURIER, the fake news organization led by Sen. Chris Murphy's girlfriend, held a SOTU …

Brandon Herrera calls for GOP leadership to pressure Tony Gonzales to exit Texas race after House of Cards-level scandal
Same show, different day.

EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Tony Gonzales’s (R-TX) primary challenger is calling on House GOP leadership to pressure the scandal-tarred incumbent into exiting the 2026 Texas race.

Brandon Herrera, a Second Amendment activist and social media influencer, told the Washington Examiner in an interview that Gonzales’s behavior was unacceptable and a “resignation-level offense.”

“I understand the hesitation to go through the cluster that would be a special election in Texas and with a thin majority,” said Herrera. “But I think the bare minimum, I think House leadership should pressure him to at least suspend his campaign, because I don’t think a man like that can continue to represent the district, not with his behavior.”

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and other members of the GOP leadership have yet to call on Gonzales to step aside. Johnson initially told reporters the allegations were troubling and that he would talk to Gonzales, but it was “too early to prejudge.”

“It has been reported that the Office of Congressional Conduct is investigating, as it has been for some time, and what we do here is we allow all the facts to play out. There is a sitting Democrat in the House right now who’s under indictment by [the Department of] Justice for stealing funds to pay for her campaign,” Johnson said, referring to Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) during a recent CBS interview. “No one is calling for her resignation or her ouster from the House. We allow due process to play out. And what we’re doing here is exactly what we do in every scenario.”

Gonzales is defiant about not resigning, even as the scandal grows over his relationship with a former staffer who subsequently died by setting herself on fire last year. The staffer, Regina Santos-Aviles, was rumored to have engaged in an affair with Gonzales at the time of her death. Gonzales denied the allegations, but text messages made public by Santos-Aviles’s one-time husband show the congressman sent inappropriate, late-night text messages to the staffer.

READ: TONY GONZALES’ EXPLICIT TEXT MESSAGES TO LATE STAFFER WHO SET HERSELF ON FIRE

The messages show Gonzales asking Santos-Aviles for sexual images and peppering her with inappropriate questions of a sexual nature. The revelation spurred calls for Gonzales’s resignation from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress.

“A lot of people, in the beginning, didn’t believe it,” said Herrera. “I didn’t believe it either, because it sounded like something that was too …

Voters react as Trump touts signature tariff plan at State of the Union
People are fed up—do they even notice?

Republicans were pleased when President Donald Trump spoke during the State of the Union address Tuesday about his plan to continue imposing global tariffs after the Supreme Court dealt him a setback, according to live reactions from a panel of voters.
The panel, assembled by polling group Maslansky & Partners and made up of 29 Democrats, 30 independents and 41 Republicans, gave real-time reactions as Trump spoke. The responses were displayed on a line graph, with higher values indicating positive reactions and lower values indicating negative reactions.
Trump called the Supreme Court's decision striking down the tariffs "unfortunate" as four justices sat stone-faced in the front row of the House chamber.
TRUMP RIPS SUPREME COURT TARIFF RULING IN SOTU, VOWS NEW LEGAL FIGHT AFTER 6-3 BLOW
It is customary for justices to be invited to the address, though not all typically attend. Chief Justice John Roberts and justices Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh attended Tuesday.
Trump touted the tariffs, which he unilaterally imposed last year under an emergency law, as a key negotiating tool, saying they helped him broker peace deals between other countries and generated billions of dollars in revenue. The Supreme Court found that Trump illegally bypassed Congress by invoking the law, known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
But "just four days ago, an unfortunate ruling from the United States Supreme Court, it just came down, a very unfortunate ruling," Trump said, as the dials on the line graph showed Republicans reacting approvingly and Democrats and independents responding negatively.
SPEECHWRITERS FROM REAGAN TO BIDEN AGREE: TRUMP’S SOTU IS A CRITICAL TEST FOR HIS SECOND TERM
"The good news is that almost all countries and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made ... knowing that the legal power that I as president have to make a new deal could be far worse for them. And, therefore, they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before the Supreme Court's unfortunate involvement," Trump said.
Trump said he had "time-tested" alternatives to the IEEPA that he planned to use so he could again sidestep Congress' role in authorizing tariffs, which the Supreme Court said functioned like a tax and therefore required congressional approval under the Constitution.

Democrats not sweating Trump putting them on record for choosing illegal immigrants over Americans
Every delay has consequences.

Democrats are pushing back against Republican claims that their response during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address will hurt them politically, arguing the split-screen moment is unlikely to reshape the 2026 midterm election landscape even as the GOP moves quickly to turn it into campaign messaging.

The debate followed a moment in which Democrats remained seated while Trump called for prioritizing American citizens over illegal immigrants. Republicans quickly framed the exchange as politically damaging, but Democratic strategists argued the episode is unlikely to reshape the midterm landscape, saying voters tend to view State of the Union speeches through a partisan lens.

“People tune in to cheer their own side and confirm their own opinions,” Democratic strategist Jon Reinish said. “They don’t really move the needle.”

Reinish said any impact would likely be limited to individual districts rather than creating a broad national shift, adding that economic concerns remain the dominant issue heading into 2026.

Democratic strategist Brad Bannon similarly dismissed the idea that the moment would carry lasting political weight.

“The big ingredient that’s missing is Donald Trump’s name isn’t on the ballot,” Bannon said. “I don’t think it’s a big deal.”

Bannon argued that voters remain primarily focused on economic concerns, not symbolic exchanges.

“The only thing Americans wanted to hear last night was what he’s going to do to lower prices,” he said. “Anything else, I don’t think they paid much attention to.”

Republicans see a familiar opening

Even as Democrats downplayed the significance of the moment, Republicans quickly moved to elevate it as a possible midterm contrast.

The National Republican Congressional Committee said it is cutting campaign ads using footage of the exchange, betting the imagery will resonate with voters as Republicans seek to defend their House majority. GOP strategists argue the moment reinforces their broader case that Democrats are out of step with voters on immigration and national identity issues.

For Republicans, the exchange recalls a playbook that worked in 2024, when culture-war messaging helped shape the closing stretch of the presidential race. Even Democrats admitted that Trump’s most impactful ad that cycle was one lambasting Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris for being “for they/them.”

That year, the GOP spent more than $215 million on ads targeting Democrats over transgender issues, …

Florida launches probe after Cuba kills 4 aboard US-flagged speedboat near Keys
Every delay has consequences.

The State of Florida launched a full investigation into an announcement from the Cuban government that it killed several people aboard a U.S.-flagged speedboat operating close to the Communist island’s north shore on Tuesday.
Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., first said the Cuban Interior Ministry reported confronting a speedboat with a Florida license number and claimed the occupants opened fire first.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier told Fox News Digital that his office is now looking into the situation, adding that Havana is not an honest neighbor.
"I’ve directed the Office of Statewide Prosecution to work with our federal, state, and law enforcement partners to begin an investigation," Uthmeier said in a statement.
TRUMP ULTIMATUM TO CUBA: 'MAKE A DEAL, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE' OR FACE CONSEQUENCES
"The Cuban government cannot be trusted, and we will do everything in our power to hold these communists accountable."
The Cuban government claimed that on Tuesday morning, a "violating speedboat" had been detected within one nautical-mile of Falcon Key’s El Pino channel, near Villa Clara.
The area also lies a relatively short distance due south of the Florida Keys resort town of Marathon.
The Cubans claimed that when five Border Guardsmen approached to make the Americans identify themselves, the speedboat’s crew fired shots.
"As a consequence of the confrontation, as of the time of this report, four aggressors on the foreign vessel were killed and six were injured. The injured individuals were evacuated and received medical assistance," the Cuban government claimed.
"[N]ational defense is a fundamental pillar of the Cuban State in safeguarding its sovereignty and ensuring stability in the region."
When reached for comment, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security official directed Fox News Digital to the State Department.
CUBA IS APPROACHING ITS BERLIN WALL MOMENT — AMERICA MUST HELP THEM BREAK THROUGH
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was already in the Caribbean region on Tuesday, visiting with officials in Basseterre, St. Kitts.
Gimenez, the only Cuban-born member of Congress and a vocal critic of his home country’s current dictatorship, told Fox News Digital that the Diaz-Canel regime "must be relegated to the dustbin of history for its countless crimes against humanity."
Gimenez said he has asked his fellow Miamian, Rubio, for more details and called for the firefight to receive the full federal attention it deserves.
The press pool traveling with Rubio has inquired about the situation.
Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., who represents heavily Cuban …

Trump Stem-Winder Sends Shockwaves Across Capitol Hill
This affects the entire country.

In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s nearly two-hour State of the Union address, Republican and Democrat members of Congress went running to the media to start the messaging war.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters Trump’s speech Tuesday was “one of the best State of the Union speeches ever.”

“It was really well done,” Johnson added. “Great content, great delivery.”

Speaker Johnson talks to press leaving the State of the Union tonight in Statuary Hall:

“It’s shameful what the Democrats did tonight, the display, it should be beneath any member of Congress. I think it’s something they’ll regret.” @DailySignal @SpeakerJohnson
— Virginia Grace McKinnon (@virginiagmck) February 25, 2026

Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., told The Daily Signal that the speech was “powerful” and “professional.”

“It was powerful, professional, and touched on all the points that I think I was looking to hear,” Harris stated. “He described the situation that he inherited, all the way to all of the things he has done in his first year.”

The president’s nearly two-hour address covered his administration’s successes on immigration, the economy, and foreign policy. But the president also called on Congress to act on several key issues, such as health care, tech policy, and election integrity.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., told The Daily Signal that “we need lower health care costs. The fact that the president is focused on it gives it hope we can accomplish it.”

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., told The Daily Signal that the president “was absolutely right” in mentioning his plans for things like artificial intelligence and data centers.

“If we can’t figure out how to build data centers and not increase electricity costs, then all the other problems we got are going to be much harder, so I think the president was absolutely right,” Donalds stated.

Democrats, on the other hand, claimed Trump’s speech was performative and sought to divide the country.

Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., said the speech was “typical, terrible, horrible, divisive, racist,” and “immigrant vilifying.”

During the speech, Democrats defied Trump’s address by shouting at the president, sitting down during standing ovations, and refusing to commemorate American athletes, victims of violent crime, and war heroes.

At one point, Democrats refused to stand in agreement with the president on the American government being for the benefit of American citizens, rather than illegal aliens.

“We are in pretty tough shape,” Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., told The Daily Signal. “I was hoping for a unifying speech. The recognition of the Olympic gold medal team was positive, the recognition of our decorated veterans was positive. Other than that, there was a lot of disagreement.”

Johnson and Donalds condemned the Democrat disruptors and did not rule out administering consequences to them.

“It’s shameful what the Democrats did tonight, that should be beneath, under any member of Congress,” Johnson stated.

In response to whether they will be punished for their defiance, Johnson said, “We’ll find out.”

HOW DO YOU NOT STAND??

President Trump shamed Democrats for refusing …