By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has been invited to address a joint session of Congress on March 4, Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said on Saturday.
“It is my distinct honor and great privilege to invite President Donald Trump to address a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, to share his America First vision for our future,” Johnson said on social media platform X, sharing a letter of the invite. It was also released by his office.
It will be Trump’s first such address since he took office on Jan. 20. Trump’s Republican Party holds a narrow majority in the House and a more comfortable one in the Senate.
Trump is pushing a plan to explicitly use revenue from higher tariffs on imported goods to help pay for extending trillions of dollars in tax cuts.
He has threatened across-the-board import tariffs, but has yet to impose any.
Lawmakers and analysts have said that such a push will likely face opposition in Congress from many Republicans, especially budget hawks concerned about the reliability and durability of tariff revenue along with the potential dangers that trade wars pose for individual districts and voters.
The president and his allies say he wants to use them much like the personal and corporate taxes that account for the vast majority of U.S. revenues, notching up tariffs to help pay for government programs and cover promised tax cuts.
