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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on Admiral Donald Trump's aboriginal abode to Congress Tuesday night (all times local):10:02 p.m.
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Full remarks: President Trump's joint address to Congress [Video] | joint address to congressPresident Donald Trump says he's ordered the Homeland Security Department to actualize an appointment to serve American victims of crimes committed by immigrants.
Trump says the appointment will be alleged "VOICE" -- abbreviate for Victims Of Clearing Abomination Engagement. There were aural groans and sounds of abruptness from bodies in the admirers back Trump said the name of the new office.
Trump says the U.S. allegation abutment law administering and abutment the victims of crime. He says the new appointment will accommodate a articulation to bodies abandoned by the media and "silenced by appropriate interests."
Trump says he arrive four Americans to appear the accent whose families were afflicted by crimes committed by immigrants in the U.S. illegally.----------10:00 p.m.
President Donald Trump is declaring that "education is the civilian rights affair of our time" and alleged aloft Congress to canyon an apprenticeship bill that funds academy best for disadvantaged youth.
Trump said the admeasurement would advice "millions of African-American and Latino children" and said that families "should be chargeless to accept the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home academy that is appropriate for them."
The president, a backer of allotment schools, singled out a Florida woman alleged Denisha Merriweather, who was one of his arrive guests to Tuesday night's accent to Congress.
Trump says Merriweather, who bootless third brand twice, was able to accept in a clandestine centermost for acquirements with the advice of a tax acclaim scholarship program. She afterwards accelerating from aerial academy and college.----------9:52 p.m.
President Donald Trump says his administering wants to assignment with Republicans and Democrats to ensure paid ancestors leave for new parents.
Trump is announcement a ambition for paid ancestors leave that he aboriginal mentioned at the Republican Civic Convention. It's an abstraction that Trump's daughter, Ivanka, has encouraged her ancestor to embrace.
The admiral still has yet to beef out a angle or activity capacity about his paid ancestors leave plan.
Trump says he wants to assignment to accomplish childcare "accessible and affordable." He additionally says both parties should assignment calm on women's health, apple-pie air and water, basement and the military.----------9:50 p.m.
President Donald Trump is analogue his attempt for repealing and replacing the Obama-era bloom affliction law.
The admiral says in an abode to Congress that Americans with above-mentioned altitude should accept admission to advantage and there should be a abiding alteration for those enrolled in the exchanges.
Trump says bodies should accept advice purchasing their own advantage through tax credits and broadcast bloom accumulation accounts. He says governors should accept the assets and adaptability they allegation with Medicaid, the collective federal-state bloom affairs for the poor and elderly.
In his speech, Trump additionally said acknowledged reforms should be acclimated to assure patients and doctors and Americans should be able to buy bloom allowance beyond accompaniment lines.----------9:48 p.m.
President Donald Trump is declaring that "real and absolute clearing ameliorate is possible" and alleged for bipartisan abutment on the effort.
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President Trump's first address to Congress | joint address to congressTrump in his accent to Congress on Tuesday said that he basic to check the nation's arrangement of acknowledged clearing in favor of a "merit-based" system. That about-face abroad from acceptance lower-skilled immigrants could abate the all-embracing cardinal of acknowledged immigrants accustomed to admission the Affiliated States.
Trump claimed that it would "save endless dollars" by active up accomplishment and would advice immigrant families ability the average class.
The accent comes hours afterwards he told account anchors that he was accessible to legislation that could accommodate a alleyway to acknowledged status, a cogent change in accent on a signature attack issue.----------9:46 p.m.
For House GOP leaders, Admiral Donald Trump came tantalizingly abutting to acknowledging their plan to check the tax cipher by arty a new tax on imports while exempting exports. But, he chock-full aloof short.
"We allegation actualize a akin arena acreage for American companies and workers," Trump said. "Currently, back we abode articles out of America, abounding added countries accomplish us pay actual aerial tariffs and taxes -- but back adopted companies abode their articles into America, we allegation them about nothing," Trump said.
Without accouterment specifics, Trump said he will adduce to change that.
For weeks, the White House has beatific alloyed signals about the House GOP plan, abrogation assembly to adapt contradicting statements. Meanwhile, a growing cardinal of Republican senators accept accursed the plan.----------9:45 p.m.
President Donald Trump is calling for a "new affairs of civic building."
Trump is invoking Admiral Dwight Eisenhower's basement affairs to actualize the artery system. Trump says it's time afresh for Americans to appear calm to clean itself.
Trump says he'll ask Congress for $1 abundance for U.S. infrastructure, financed by accessible and clandestine capital. He says it will actualize millions of new jobs.
The admiral is black the bulk of money the U.S. has spent over the years architecture up added nations' infrastructure. He says the U.S. should accept focused on rebuilding itself.
Trump says two attempt will adviser the basement project: "Buy American, and appoint American."----------9:40 p.m.
President Donald Trump is declaring that his administering "will anon booty new accomplish to accumulate our nation safe," alliance new controlling activity to bind immigration.
Trump's antecedent ban on clearing from seven Muslim-majority nations was addled bottomward by a federal court.
The admiral is accepted to advertise a new, overhauled plan on Wednesday.
He vowed in his accent to Congress that this administering "has been alive on bigger vetting procedures" and would "keep out those who would do us harm."----------9:38 p.m.
A adolescent Iraqi immigrant whose acknowledgment to Maine was delayed by Admiral Donald Trump's biking ban has accustomed a balmy acceptable from his aegis secretary at Tuesday's abode to Congress.
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Watch the entirety of Trump's first joint address to Congress ... | joint address to congressBanah Al-Hanfy abounding Trump's accent as a bedfellow of Maine U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, a Democrat.
Pingree tweeted a photo of the 20-year-old academy apprentice affair Gen. James Mattis at the Capitol. She wrote that Mattis told Al-Hanfy, "you are best acceptable here."
Pingree additionally tweeted a photo of Al-Hanfy afraid easily with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
Trump's adjustment delayed Al-Hanfy's cruise from Baghdad and afar her from her ancestors for 10 days.
Al-Hanfy's father, Labed, has formed as an analyst for the U.S. aggressive in Iraq and her ancestors had appropriate immigrant visas.----------9:37 p.m.
President Donald Trump is giving a appropriate shout-out to a collective U.S.-Canadian women's board set up to advice women entrepreneurs.
Trump's daughter, Ivanka, was a big apostle for the program.
Trump, in his aboriginal abode to Congress, says the board would advice women get admission to the networks, markets and basic they allegation to alpha a business and "live out their banking dreams."
Ivanka Trump has been a articulate adherent of behavior benefiting alive women.----------9:36 p.m.
President Donald Trump says the U.S. is demography able measures to assure itself from "radical Islamic terrorism."
Trump is application the appellation absolutely in his speech. It's a abandonment from above Admiral Barack Obama, who autonomous not to use that term. Obama argued it emboldened extremists by arena into an incorrect acceptance that the U.S. is at war with Islam.
Trump says it's adventuresome to acquiesce bodies into the U.S. amoral from places area they can't be absolutely vetted. He says the U.S. can't be "a altar for extremists."
The admiral says his administering is alive on bigger vetting procedures and will anon booty "new steps" to accumulate Americans safe.----------9:34 p.m.
President Donald Trump is gluttonous to accomplish the case for his tougher clearing rules and the architecture of a bank forth the U.S.-Mexican border.
Trump says in his abode to Congress that the nation wants "all Americans to succeed" but it can't appear "in an ambiance of anarchic chaos." He says the U.S. needs to restore the "rule of law" to our borders.
Trump says the country will anon activate architecture on the bank and it will be an "effective weapon adjoin drugs and crime."
He says his administering is removing assemblage members, biologic dealers and abyss from the Affiliated States. Trump says "bad ones" are activity out as he speaks.----------9:33 p.m.
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Annotated transcript: President Trump's address to a joint session ... | joint address to congressPresident Donald Trump is claiming acclaim for demography accomplish in his aboriginal weeks that he says are already bolstering the U.S. economy.
Trump says in his accent to Congress that above companies including Ford and Intel accept appear affairs to beforehand in the U.S. and actualize jobs. He's pointing to assets in the banal bazaar and his hiring benumb for federal workers.
Trump says he's started to "drain the swamp" with a five-year lobbying ban for government officials. He says he's allowance actualize jobs by enabling architecture on activity and abbreviating government regulations.
Trump is additionally touting his move to abolish the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership chargeless barter deal.----------9:30 p.m.
President Donald Trump is casting 2016 as a year in which the "earth confused below our feet," and pointing to his achievement as a "rebellion" that "started as a quiet protest" and angry into a "loud chorus."
Trump says in his aboriginal abode to a collective affair of Congress that bags of Americans batten out calm and their choir "became an earthquake."
The admiral says bodies angry out by the tens of millions affiliated by one demand: that America put its own citizens first. Trump says that alone again can we `Make America Great Again,' apropos to his attack mantra.----------9:20 p.m.
President Donald Trump is aperture his abode to a collective affair of Congress by accusatory the contempo threats adjoin Jewish association centers and a baleful cutting in Kansas actuality advised as a abhorrence crime.
Trump on Tuesday said that "while we may be a nation disconnected on policies, we are a country that stands affiliated in accusatory abhorrence and angry in all its forms."
The admiral had accustomed criticism from some civilian rights groups who had accused him of actuality apathetic in accusatory the agitated acts. He had yet to altercate the annihilation of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, one of two Indian men attempt in a bar alfresco Kansas City.
There accept additionally been dozens of threats adjoin Jewish association centers -- and abuse in Jewish cemeteries -- beyond the nation in contempo weeks.----------9:17 p.m.
A few abandoned seats and no acclamation from Democrats greeted Admiral Donald Trump as he accustomed in the House for his aboriginal abode to a collective affair of Congress.
Democrats who agilely arranged the alley seats to agitate easily with Admiral Barack Obama the accomplished two agreement beatific a bulletin to the Republican president. They abhorred the alley seats and few befuddled the president's hand.
Democratic women wore white to appearance adherence with the capitalism movement.
As the admiral spoke, Republicans jumped up and applauded. Democrats sat.----------8:03 p.m.
The above governor of Kentucky says Republicans are aggravating to "rip affordable bloom insurance" abroad from the bodies who best allegation it.
Former Gov. Steve Beshear affairs to accord the Democratic Party's academic acknowledgment to Admiral Donald Trump's abode to Congress Tuesday night. In beforehand excerpts, Beshear says the added than 20 actor Americans benefiting from above Admiral Barack Obama's bloom affliction law aren't "aliens from a abroad planet." Beshear says they're accompany and neighbors who now face "life and death" decisions because of the GOP accomplishment to annihilate that law.
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President Trump's first address to Congress | joint address to congressBeshear says Trump's attacks on intelligence agencies, the press, federal courts and others are "eroding our democracy" and reckless.
The 72-year-old Beshear is best accepted for accretion bloom advantage in his abysmal red accompaniment beneath Obama's law.
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