Trump declares ‘America is back’ and says he is ‘just getting started’ in speech to US Congress

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DONALD TRUMP DECLARED that “America is back” last night in his first address to Congress since returning to power, touting his radical policies in the face of raucous Democratic hostility. In the longest presidential speech to politicians on record, the Republican repeatedly hailed billionaire advisor Elon Musk’s controversial assault on the federal bureaucracy and said his administration was “just getting started”. Trump vowed to keep up his campaign of “swift and unrelenting action” in reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy. His comments came in an address to Congress that left Democratic legislators registering their dissent with stone faces,...