From PBS NewsHour.

President Donald Trump urged Congress to pass his tax plan during his March 4 address. The president also said his tax cuts would include no taxes on tips, overtime or Social Security benefits.
Within Congress, the pathway for Trump’s tax plan remains unclear. Though Republicans control both chambers, they do not agree on Trump’s insistence to make his 2017 tax cuts permanent, a major campaign trail promises during the 2024 election. Some Republicans worry that such a tax approach wouldn’t help with the mounting deficit.

The first speech of Trump’s second term in office, while not officially a State of the Union address, is a chance for the president to lay out legislative priorities and tout early achievements.

Trump has moved to deliver on some of his campaign promises at breakneck speed, signing more than 75 executive orders in little more than a month. Thousands of federal workers have been fired at the direction of the Department of Government Efficiency and Trump adviser and billionaire Elon Musk.

Close to half of Americans in the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll disapprove of Trump’s job performance so far, but his approval rating, at 45 percent, is higher than at any point of his first term. While 54 percent of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction, 45 percent believe the country is on the right track, a 10-point jump from December 2024.

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