Here are Trump’s top promises from his 2026 State of the Union address
Equal justice apparently isn't equal anymore.
President Donald Trump not only looked back on his first year in office during a historically long State of the Union address Tuesday, but also outlined his legislative agenda before the midterm election.
Here are some of the biggest promises he made during Tuesday night’s speech:
Introducing an electricity ratepayer protection pledge
The headline promise from Trump’s State of the Union was his announcement of what he described as a “ratepayer protection pledge.”
“We’re telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs,” he said. “They can build their own power plants as part of their factory so that no one’s prices will go up, and in many cases, prices of electricity will go down for the community, and very substantially down.”
Trump may have dismissed affordability concerns as a “dirty, rotten lie” earlier in his address, but his proposal proactively rebutted Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s (D-VA) Democratic response to his speech.
Spanberger won her gubernatorial campaign last November in part because of cost-of-living complaints in her commonwealth, with Northern Virginia being home to the world’s highest concentration of data centers, which has, in turn, put pressure on electricity prices.
Expanding a federal government-paid retirement savings matching proposal
Trump similarly promised to provide federal worker-type retirement saving plans to nonfederal employees whose employers do not match their account contributions.
“Half of all of working Americans still do not have access to a retirement plan with matching contributions from an employer,” he said. “We will match your contribution with up to $1,000 each year.”
Trump’s proposal expands a program introduced by former President Joe Biden in 2022 through the Securing a Strong Retirement Act, or Secure Act 2.0, which itself builds on a Trump policy from his first term.
In a separate statement, the White House explained that Trump’s new scheme could be compared to the Thrift Savings Plan, which creates low-fee funds for federal workers to invest in stocks and bonds.
Pursuing his aggressive tariff policy, despite the Supreme Court
Days after the Supreme Court decided that the tariffs he imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were unconstitutional, Trump promised to press on with his duties through “fully approved and tested alternative legal statutes.”
“They’re a little more complex, but they’re actually probably better, …
Equal justice apparently isn't equal anymore.
President Donald Trump not only looked back on his first year in office during a historically long State of the Union address Tuesday, but also outlined his legislative agenda before the midterm election.
Here are some of the biggest promises he made during Tuesday night’s speech:
Introducing an electricity ratepayer protection pledge
The headline promise from Trump’s State of the Union was his announcement of what he described as a “ratepayer protection pledge.”
“We’re telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs,” he said. “They can build their own power plants as part of their factory so that no one’s prices will go up, and in many cases, prices of electricity will go down for the community, and very substantially down.”
Trump may have dismissed affordability concerns as a “dirty, rotten lie” earlier in his address, but his proposal proactively rebutted Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s (D-VA) Democratic response to his speech.
Spanberger won her gubernatorial campaign last November in part because of cost-of-living complaints in her commonwealth, with Northern Virginia being home to the world’s highest concentration of data centers, which has, in turn, put pressure on electricity prices.
Expanding a federal government-paid retirement savings matching proposal
Trump similarly promised to provide federal worker-type retirement saving plans to nonfederal employees whose employers do not match their account contributions.
“Half of all of working Americans still do not have access to a retirement plan with matching contributions from an employer,” he said. “We will match your contribution with up to $1,000 each year.”
Trump’s proposal expands a program introduced by former President Joe Biden in 2022 through the Securing a Strong Retirement Act, or Secure Act 2.0, which itself builds on a Trump policy from his first term.
In a separate statement, the White House explained that Trump’s new scheme could be compared to the Thrift Savings Plan, which creates low-fee funds for federal workers to invest in stocks and bonds.
Pursuing his aggressive tariff policy, despite the Supreme Court
Days after the Supreme Court decided that the tariffs he imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were unconstitutional, Trump promised to press on with his duties through “fully approved and tested alternative legal statutes.”
“They’re a little more complex, but they’re actually probably better, …
Here are Trump’s top promises from his 2026 State of the Union address
Equal justice apparently isn't equal anymore.
President Donald Trump not only looked back on his first year in office during a historically long State of the Union address Tuesday, but also outlined his legislative agenda before the midterm election.
Here are some of the biggest promises he made during Tuesday night’s speech:
Introducing an electricity ratepayer protection pledge
The headline promise from Trump’s State of the Union was his announcement of what he described as a “ratepayer protection pledge.”
“We’re telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs,” he said. “They can build their own power plants as part of their factory so that no one’s prices will go up, and in many cases, prices of electricity will go down for the community, and very substantially down.”
Trump may have dismissed affordability concerns as a “dirty, rotten lie” earlier in his address, but his proposal proactively rebutted Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s (D-VA) Democratic response to his speech.
Spanberger won her gubernatorial campaign last November in part because of cost-of-living complaints in her commonwealth, with Northern Virginia being home to the world’s highest concentration of data centers, which has, in turn, put pressure on electricity prices.
Expanding a federal government-paid retirement savings matching proposal
Trump similarly promised to provide federal worker-type retirement saving plans to nonfederal employees whose employers do not match their account contributions.
“Half of all of working Americans still do not have access to a retirement plan with matching contributions from an employer,” he said. “We will match your contribution with up to $1,000 each year.”
Trump’s proposal expands a program introduced by former President Joe Biden in 2022 through the Securing a Strong Retirement Act, or Secure Act 2.0, which itself builds on a Trump policy from his first term.
In a separate statement, the White House explained that Trump’s new scheme could be compared to the Thrift Savings Plan, which creates low-fee funds for federal workers to invest in stocks and bonds.
Pursuing his aggressive tariff policy, despite the Supreme Court
Days after the Supreme Court decided that the tariffs he imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were unconstitutional, Trump promised to press on with his duties through “fully approved and tested alternative legal statutes.”
“They’re a little more complex, but they’re actually probably better, …
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