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Rep. Green was ejected from Trump’s joint handle to Congress final 12 months after he shouted on the President in opposition to Medicaid reductions.

This 12 months’s demonstration pertains to a video Trump shared on his Truth Social platform earlier this month, which portrayed Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. Trump maintained he had not seen the video in its entirety earlier than directing an aide to publish it on his behalf.

Several Democratic congresswomen attended the handle carrying ‘suffragist’ white in solidarity with girls’s rights.

Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández of New Mexico, who chairs the Democratic Women’s Caucus, advised CBS News: “This year, there are specific attacks on women’s ability to vote. The Democratic Women’s Caucus is wearing white both to honor that fight that women have always had and to signal we are still in the fight.”

Some members of Congress are avoiding tonight’s handle, after Democrat leaders inspired them to stay absent relatively than interrupt the speech with an attention-seeking gesture.

Trump is heading into the State of the Union handle with worse approval rankings than any president in trendy historical past.

A Washington Post/ABC News ballot performed this week revealed that 60% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s efficiency in workplace, with 47% expressing sturdy disapproval.

Just 39% mentioned they accepted of his efficiency, the bottom of any President forward of a second-year State of the Union in trendy historical past.

The final time Trump’s disapproval reached 60% was shortly after the January sixth Insurrection within the closing days of his first time period.

Only 29% of Americans imagine the nation is on target, in response to the latest AP-NORC ballot. The majority, 69%, really feel the nation is shifting within the mistaken path.

That pessimism is greater than it was when Trump took workplace final 12 months. Last March, round 6 in 10 Americans felt the nation was heading within the mistaken path.

This is partly as a consequence of Republicans’ temper rising significantly darker final autumn, following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Republicans at the moment are extra optimistic than they had been a number of months in the past, but solely round 6 in 10 imagine the nation is on target, down from roughly 7 in 10 final March.