{"id":67188,"date":"2026-02-24T19:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/state-of-the-union-address-trump-to-speak-to-congress-as-dozens-of-democrats-plan-boycott-live-updates\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T19:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:55:51","slug":"state-of-the-union-address-trump-to-speak-to-congress-as-dozens-of-democrats-plan-boycott-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/state-of-the-union-address-trump-to-speak-to-congress-as-dozens-of-democrats-plan-boycott-live-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Union address: Trump to speak to Congress as dozens of Democrats plan boycott \u2013 live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president signaled a \u2018long speech\u2019, expected to start at 9pm ET, which will double as pitch to voters ahead of midterms later this year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/watch-trump-state-union-address-time-when\">State of the Union speech: when is it and how can you watch?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Erika Kirk<\/strong>, the widow of the late conservative activist <strong>Charlie Kirk<\/strong>, will attend tonight\u2019s State of the Union address as a special guest of the president.<\/p>\n<p>After her husband was assassinated at a college event for his non-profit Turning Point USA, Erika Kirk took over the organization.<\/p>\n<p>If he\u2019s coming to our house, you got to be there. Otherwise, you let him own the house.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/feb\/24\/trump-state-of-the-union-address-congress-watch-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president signaled a \u2018long speech\u2019, expected to start at 9pm ET, which will double as pitch to voters ahead of midterms later this year State of the Union speech: when is it and how can you watch? Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Erika Kirk, &#8230; <a title=\"State of the Union address: Trump to speak to Congress as dozens of Democrats plan boycott \u2013 live updates\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/state-of-the-union-address-trump-to-speak-to-congress-as-dozens-of-democrats-plan-boycott-live-updates\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about State of the Union address: Trump to speak to Congress as dozens of Democrats plan boycott \u2013 live updates\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}