{"id":179214,"date":"2026-02-25T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179214\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:04:09","slug":"some-texas-democrats-skip-trumps-state-of-the-union-as-divisions-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179214\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Texas Democrats skip Trump\u2019s State of the Union as divisions surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Not every lawmaker was in the room as President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Reps. Greg Casar and Jasmine Crockett were among dozens of Democrats who skipped the speech, choosing instead to attend a separate \u201cPeople\u2019s State of the Union\u201d event on the National Mall.<\/p>\n<p>Trump struck an optimistic tone during his address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve seen nothing yet,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do better and better and better. This is the golden age of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the president spoke about issues including the economy and tariffs, Casar addressed supporters in Washington, explaining his absence from the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not in the Capitol building tonight because I have a pretty good idea of what\u2019s going to happen,\u201d Casar said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to tell us that the state of the union is strong. Strong for who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andy Hogue with the Travis County GOP said the Democrats\u2019 decision to boycott underscores political tensions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t about retail politics right now. This is about actually getting things done for the country,\u201d Hogue said. \u201cJust simply walk out on our elected president? That shows a lack of maturity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/connect-to-congress\/president-donald-trump-to-lay-out-his-vision-for-us-bringing-prices-down-in-state-of-the-union-economy-tariffs-supreme-court-congress-midterms-politics-immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO| Trump says economy is roaring, country is winning in record-length State of the Union<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>KEYE<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, an Austin Democrat, attended the address but voiced criticism of the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that the floor of the people\u2019s house should be yielded to Trump and his enablers,\u201d Doggett said.<\/p>\n<p>Doggett also noted the speech coincided with four years since Russia invaded Ukraine, arguing Trump has not delivered on past promises to resolve the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that Trump has stood in the way of a resolution of a war that he said he would fix in one day, would only take him 24 hours to solve,\u201d Doggett said.<\/p>\n<p>In Central Texas, some voters said they are focused less on the rhetoric and more on what follows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething about what our future looks like?\u201d said Justin, a local voter. \u201cI want to hear his major policy plans and for Congress to follow through on that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Not every lawmaker was in the room as President Donald Trump delivered his State of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-179214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}