President Donald Trump is heading to Miami on the anniversary of his reelection to a second term to speak to a forum of business leaders and global athletes about what he sees as his economic achievements. His speech comes after Democrats won resoundingly in multiple states on Tuesday, with exit polls showing economic worries were very much on the minds of voters.
Trump is scheduled to speak at 1 p.m. ET. Watch in the player above.
Trump told GOP senators at a breakfast meeting before leaving the White House that the 36-day government shutdown, now the longest on record, was a “big factor, negative” for the Republican party in the elections, and called on the senators to end it by terminating the filibuster, the 60-vote threshold in the Senate that requires negotiations between both major parties on most legislation. A key Republican senator said after the breakfast, “that’s not happening.”
And as the shutdown disrupts the lives of millions of Americans with federal program cuts, flight delays and a denial of paychecks to federal workers nationwide, Democrats called on Trump to meet with them. Trump says they have to reopen the government first. Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments over Trump’s sweeping tariffs policies that have been at the center of his economic and foreign policy agendas.
