Name: Fact-checking Trump's State of the Union address and more on most shocking moments
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But we began with President Trump's marathon speech on Capitol Hill last night.

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The president delivered a nearly two hour long State of the Union address in front of lawmakers where he focused on the economy and immigration policies.

Trump says he inherited a national crisis with open borders, a stagnant economy and wars all over the world, but

touted changes in his first year back in the Oval Office after just one year.

I can say with dignity and pride that we have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before.

Okay, let's bring in CBS News White House reporter Erin Navarro.

Erin, what is the White House saying about how they felt last night's address went mugo?

Predictably, they feel that it went well specifically in creating the political framing the contrast that the Republican Party can lean on in the midterms, especially when it comes to the contrast between themselves and the Democratic Party.

You're seeing the White House Vice President Vance in a FOX News interview that just aired really lean on the moments where Democrats did not stand for some of President Trump's lines from his address, such as when he called on states to ban transgender care for minors or when he said the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.

Vice President Vance Justice Hour said it was a quote, set sad commentary for the Democratic Party when they did not stand and said that President Trump's speech was used to, quote, drive home that we really do have a radical fringe in our country.

So it's a two pronged approach for the White House and the president's party going into these months before November's elections?

One, how do they follow through on some of the proposals President Trump had on the economy, the calls for legislation?

But the second bit is how they lean onto that contrast that they're trying to make between themselves and the Democratic Party.

The president made several claims in his speech last night.

Can you walk us through some of the statements he made that were both true and also misleading?

President Trump said that the murder rate saw the largest decline in recorded history.

Preliminary data from independent researchers found that homicides hit a 125 year low in in 2025, though we are still waiting on the official annual data when it comes to crime from the FBI, one partially true or misleading claim he made is when the president said that the price of eggs are down 60% and that the costs for chicken, butter, fruit and rent are lower today than when he took office, according to numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

They are down 59% from their peak in March 2025.

But BLS data when it comes to other items show relatively flat change price when it comes to chicken or for new vehicles.

And one false claim that the president made is when he said that there was rampant cheating in America's elections caused by non citizens.

Noncitizens represent such a miniscule number of voter fraud cases, just 85 cases of this from 2003 to 2023, according to data from the conservative Heritage Foundation.

State audits have found that they're not even Approaching close to 1% of the registered voters on their voter rolls.

This is part of a push from the president for the Save America act to require proof of citizenship in order to register the vote.

But his claims there are just not really founded in any facts.

Okay, Erin Navarro outside the White House for us today.

Now, the president's speech last night highlighted a stark political divide between Republican and Democratic lawmakers.

Keep in mind it is less than nine months ahead of the midterm elections.

Was there any point in particular that really just shook you?

It was a great review of the extraordinary work we've done.

CBS News congressional correspondent Kaitlyn Hughey Burns is live on Capitol Hill for us today.

So, Caitlin, what else are you hearing from lawmakers?

Well, Mouko, essentially that's it in a nutshell.

Democrats came away from this speech, speech very critical of it.

Republicans came away very positive about it.

And this is, you know, a speech that's typically viewed through a partizan lens.

But was what was significant here, too, Mughal, was that a lot of Democrats decided not to attend it at all.

They held a counter rally outside the Capitol.

But I want to take a listen, want you to take a listen to a couple of reactions that we heard last night and specifically regarding this moment where Democratic Congressman Al Green, who is known to do these kinds of things, was kicked out of the chamber for holding a particular sign.

Take a listen to what he told our Nicole Killian.

I wanted people to know that equating people of African ancestry to apes, to primates is a form of racism.

So there had to be this personal confrontation.

And I hope that people understand that the consequences are not nearly as important as the message in confronting the President face to face within three feet of each other, so that he knows that there are some times when you're not going to have the ability to just shoo people away.

Now, you may remember Al Green has proposed multiple times to impeach the President.

It's no surprise that he chose to kind of do what he did last night.

But this is significant because Democrats were debating on how to handle this speech in the first place.

As I mentioned, many of them decided to boycott it all together.

Others wanted to send a message inside, as you saw the Congressman do there.

And then, of course, you had the rebuttal to this presidential address from Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger in Virginia.

That is what kind of the Democratic establishment hoped to be their message going forward, which was to laser focus on economic issues.

Did the President introduce any legislation that Congress will eventually have to tackle?

Yeah, a few different things that he wants Congress to do.

Aaron in the previous segment mentioned the SAVE act requiring U.S. citizenship to vote.

That's something that the President has been trying to push for.

It faces a very uphill climb, to say the least, up here on Capitol Hill, particularly on the Senate side.

He also wanted to codify, he wants Congress to codify his health care plan.

that is also an extremely upset Hill climb here and unlikely to be done.

I mean, we talk a lot more ago about the President, how he pushes the limits of executive power.

But on the congressional side, they have ceded a lot of power to him, especially when it comes to tariffs, especially when it comes to war powers and other things.

I should also note that we're still in a government partial government shutdown.

The two sides can't agree on funding for that.

And so these, that remains at a standstill.

So a lot of what the President does through executive order is because he wants to go it alone, because Congress is such an uphill climb.

I mean, Republicans have such a narrow margin in the House, getting narrower really by the day.

And so getting legislation passed up here is very difficult, especially in a midterm election year where it's going to be difficult to get anything through given the politics involved.

So you'll likely see a lot of messaging bills over the next several months.

What we're watching for is how this Congress handles the President's tariff policy.

They had, you know, been waiting for the Supreme Court decision.

You heard the President last night, still defending his policy, but

there isn't a clear appetite up here on Capitol Hill, especially among Republicans who don't traditionally like the idea of tariffs to codify anything into law.

Okay, Kaitlin Hughey Burns on Capitol Hill for us today.