{"id":444002,"date":"2026-02-25T02:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444002\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T02:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:15:10","slug":"live-updates-watch-as-trump-gives-state-of-the-union-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444002\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Watch as Trump gives State of the Union speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who is delivering the Democratic response to Trump’s speech?published at 01:28 GMT<\/p>\n

01:28 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Grace Eliza Goodwin
Reporting from New York<\/p>\n

\"AImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger will be giving the Democratic Party\u2019s official rebuttal to President Donald Trump\u2019s State of the Union address tonight.<\/p>\n

She will be speaking from Colonial Williamsburg, an outdoor museum covering America’s history as a British colony on the current-day US east coast. <\/p>\n

The rebuttal is a tradition dating back to 1966 in which a prominent member of the opposition party delivers a formal, televised counter-argument following the president\u2019s annual message.<\/p>\n

Members of Spanberger’s team say she will speak about “the chaos” Trump has unleashed during his second term. The location, they say, was a “specific decision” that speaks to America’s 250th anniversary this year, which is also a theme of Trump’s speech.<\/p>\n

A former CIA officer and three-term congresswoman, Spanberger, 46, ran for governor on a platform focused on increasing affordability. In January, she became the first female governor of Virginia<\/a> after having won by the largest margin for a Democratic candidate in the state in six decades. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe knows Americans want lower costs, safer communities, and a stronger democracy \u2014 not chaos and corruption,\u201d Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cGov Spanberger will lay out a clear path forward: lower everyday costs, protect healthcare, and defend the freedoms that define who we are as a nation,\u201d Schumer added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who is delivering the Democratic response to Trump’s speech?published at 01:28 GMT 01:28 GMT Grace Eliza GoodwinReporting from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-444002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}