Walking off the House Floor following votes Tuesday afternoon, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told DailyMail.com she is not attending President Donald Trump’s speech before Congress tonight.

Instead, she plans on watching the event remotely.

‘I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead,’ the progressive posted.

‘Then going on IG Live after,’ indicating she will be hosting a live reaction session on Instagram following the speech.

The ‘Squad’ leader told DailyMail.com that she was not familiar with any planned protests this evening that are planned for Trump’s remarks.

However, other Democrats have reportedly been planning on ways to protest Trump.

Bringing eggs to symbolize inflation and noisemakers to disrupt the proceedings were weighed by Democrats.

Already some have been spotted through the halls of Congress wearing matching outfits—another form of protest.

His remarks before all of the nation’s people and politicos will be a seminal moment in the Republican’s still young second term.

It will also be an opportunity to address his congressional Democratic detractors, who have protested his DOGE initiative, his kicking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky out of the White House and his foreign aid freeze, directly.

Within his first month, the president has deputized Elon Musk and DOGE to the top echelons of federal power, where they currently are working to dismantle what they deem as waste, fraud and abuse within the government.

Already over 100 legal cases are challenging many of the Trump-Musk government reforms, according to AP.

President Donald Trump‘s administration and Ukraine plan to sign the much-debated minerals deal following his disastrous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky.

It comes after Trump turned the screws on the U.S. ally by pausing U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

Trump has told his advisers that he wants to announce the agreement in his address to Congress Tuesday evening, according to three sources.

They cautioned that the deal had yet to be signed and the situation could change.

President Donald Trump‘s administration and Ukraine plan to sign the much-debated minerals deal following his disastrous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky.

It comes after Trump turned the screws on the U.S. ally by pausing U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

Trump has told his advisers that he wants to announce the agreement in his address to Congress Tuesday evening, according to three sources.

They cautioned that the deal had yet to be signed and the situation could change.

Donald Trump’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned Democrats planning to distract and provoke the president during his joint address to Congress this evening to think again.

Axios first reported that some Democratic lawmakers hatched plans to bring eggs, noisemakers and other knick-knacks to the Republican’s nationally televised speech.

Democrats also mentioned that they could leave the House chamber if they find Trump’s remarks particularly repugnant.

Liberal lawmakers have also considered bringing signs similar to ones Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., held up during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech last year, which read ‘war criminal.’

Addressing the planned protests, and the report on Fox News Tuesday morning, Leavitt suggested Democrats take a different approach.

President Donald Trump reacted to Justin Trudeau’s emotional press conference on Tuesday, where the Canadian prime minister threatened to retaliate with tariffs of their own.

Trudeau described Trump’s decision to level tariffs as ‘dumb’ and vowed to strike back.

Counselor to the president Alina Habba tore into fired federal employees amid DOGE layoffs – accusing them without evidence of working multiple jobs and saying she doesn’t ‘feel sorry’ for Democrats.

She made her blistering comments to Fox News after her interviewer played a clip of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries accused the Trump administration of an ‘assault on hardworking families.

That drove Habba, who last year represented Trump in his Stormy Daniels and E. Jean Carroll cases, to tee off on Democrats for bringing fired federal workers to President Trump’s speech to Congress tonight.

‘We’ve heard that they’re going to bring people that have lost their jobs,’ she snapped after shaking her head.

Democratic lawmakers sounded the alarms on Tuesday as Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico went into effect. But some GOP lawmakers also raised concerns on what the move would mean for costs in the U.S.

A clearly emotional Justin Trudeau held a press conference on Tuesday to outline retaliatory tariffs after President Donald Trump’s decision to level a 25 percent tariff on Canadian imports went into effect.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan held an impromptu Q&A with members of the press outside the White House on Tuesday morning where he slammed sanctuary cities for blocking officials from rounding up illegal immigrants from jails.

Homan insisted that immigration officials need more money to be able to house more migrants and deport them as the rate of arrest and detainment continues to surge.

‘We need Congress to step up and give us the money we need so President Trump can keep his promise to the American people,’ he demanded.

The border czar also claimed that while Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the entire Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are ‘hitting on all cylinders,’ there is only so much they can do with limited funds.

Homan lauded that border numbers are ‘down 90 percent in three weeks’ when referencing the number of crossings since Trump got back into office.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

First Lady Melania Trump is bringing 15 people to her husband’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening.

The guests range from families of victims of illegal immigrant crime to a former hostage in Russia and other ‘everyday Americans’ plagued by plights President Donald Trump has vowed to fix over the next four years in Washington.

Notably, the widow and two daughters of Corey Comperatore will sit in the first lady’s guest box at the Capitol after they lost their patriarch when he was shot and killed at Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally.

Elliston Berry, 15, from Aledo, Texas, who was the victim of deepfake AI image bullying, will also join Melania Trump as guest.

The family of Laken Riley, the 22-year-old who was murdered by an illegal immigrant while on a run last year, was invited to the joint session address.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Counselor to the President Alina Habba warned Democrats against refusing to ‘clap for America’ at President Donald Trump’s address Tuesday night.

Habba said the administration is expecting Democratic lawmakers to bring as their guests federal workers who lost their jobs and to heckle and ‘make a mockery’ of the joint session remarks.

‘To the hecklers and to the people that refuse to stand up and clap for America – not just Trump – shame on you. We know you’re coming,’ Habba told Fox News on Tuesday morning.

She also said that Trump’s team has no sympathy for federal employees who lost their jobs because they were not performing or showing up to work.

You get fired when you don’t show up to work. You get fired when you’re taking taxpayer dollars and you’re not working for the federal government and you’re double-dipping.

‘They can cry wolf all day long, I really don’t feel sorry for them,’ the lawyer and senior Trump adviser added. ‘They should get back to work for the American people like President Trump and this administration.’

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Vice President J.D. Vance said it was wrong to assume that he was snubbing European allies during his interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday.

Vance defended his stance that if the U.S. were to completely stop supporting Ukraine financially and militarily in its war with Russia , then other European nations would fail to step up to the plate to fill the large void.

He also insisted that some of these nations are not prepared to send in thousands of troops after not facing real war for decades.

A U.K. correspondent for an Italian newspaper posted to X claiming that Vance’s comments on Monday evening are ‘bad news’ for the leaders of Britain and France .

But Vance asserted in the sit-down with Hannity that if Europe wants ‘security guarantees’ for Ukraine they need to help ensure the U.S. has ‘economic upsides’ and ‘long term interest’ in the future of the country.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Two key House committee chairmen are bringing IRS whistleblowers to President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress.

Oversight Chair James Comer of Ketucky and Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan of Ohio announced Tuesday morning that IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler will join them for the speech later in the evening.

Comer and Jordan released a joint statement on their guests:

Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler embody the highest standards of the federal workforce. They are honorable public servants who risked their careers and livelihoods to expose misconduct and politicization in the federal criminal investigation of Hunter Biden.

Shapley and Ziegler say they are working with President Donald Trump’s administration to deliver ‘justice for whistleblowers like us and accountability for the retaliators.’

IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley (left) and Joseph Ziegler (right) testified before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on July 19, 2023

President Donald Trump will address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.

The theme of his speech will be ‘The Renewal of the American Dream’.

Senior adviser Stephen Miller said:

It’s an opportunity for President Trump, as only he can, to lay out the last month of record-setting, record-breaking, unprecedented achievements and accomplishments.

Democrats, many of whom stayed away from Trump’s inauguration in January, were largely brushing aside calls for boycotts as they struggle to come up with an effective counter to the president.