WASHINGTON (March 4, 2025)- President Trump will address joint session Congress tonight for the first time in his second presidential term. Topics expected to be addressed include government restructuring, immigration, tariffs, and other campaign promises.
The Democratic response will be delivered by Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI). These rebuttal remarks are expected to focus on economic concerns.
Experts at the George Washington University are available to provide commentary, insight and analysis. To speak with an expert, please contact Media Relations Specialist Shannon Mitchell at [email protected].
Casey Burgat, Legislative Affairs Program Director and Associate Professor at GW’s School of Political Management is an expert on Congressional capacity and reform. Burgat is the author of We Hold These “Truths”.
Todd Belt, director of the Political Management Program at the GW Graduate School of Political Management. Belt is an expert on the presidency, campaigns and elections, mass media and politics, public opinion, and political humor.
Lesley Lopez, director of Public Relations and Communications program as well as an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Political Management. Lopez is an expert in media relations, digital storytelling, content creation, inclusive strategic communications and coalition building, and writing.
Matt Dallek, professor at GW’s Graduate School of Political Management, is a political historian with expertise in the intersection of social crises and political transformation, the evolution of the modern conservative movement, and liberalism and its critics.
Peter Loge, director of GW’s School of Media and Public Affairs. Loge has nearly 30 years of experience in politics and communications and currently leads the Project on Ethics in Political Communication at the School of Media and Public Affairs and continues to advise advocates and organizations.
Natalia Dinello, director of the Global Residencies Program at the GW Graduate School of Political Management. Dinello’s tenure with the United Nations, the Global Development Network and others has positioned her as a leading expert in comparative politics, populism and democracy, international electoral campaigns and international responses to developments in U.S. politics.
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