Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. The White House says President Trump will use his

State of the Union address tonight to argue he and the Republicans in control of Congress are

best suited to continue tackling the public's concerns about the cost of living. But according to

the latest NPR PBS News Marist poll, most voters say the country is worse off than a year ago, and the state of the union is not strong. Deanna Killen is a Republican from Texas. Honestly, I didn't think we could much worse than what it's been, but yeah, I don't feel we're improving at all. I feel like we're going in the opposite direction. And according to the group's poll from earlier this month, 65% of people in the U.S. say immigration

enforcement has gone too far after federal agents killed two protesters in Minnesota.

Karen Borman is a Democrat in New York.

I'm glad the southern border is closed, but I don't agree with the deportation policy ahead.

Several Democrats in Congress have said they'll skip Trump's speech in protest.

U.S. customs agents are collecting new global tariffs of 10%, not the 15% tariffs the president

had announced over the weekend.

Farmers are scrambling to make sense of the tariffs just ahead of planting and harvesting

some of the spring's first of planting and harvesting some of

spring's first crops. Northwest Public Broadcasting's Anna King reports.

In this field north of Pasco, Washington, are recently mown down asparagus ferns.

The ground will be tilled up soon, ready for spring.

Tariffs could really shift the domestic asparagus market.

It has a potential to help the domestic industry in the short term, but it is disruptive

to the marketplace.

That's Ellen Schreiber, who heads up the Washington Asparagus Commission.

He says farmers might not have to ship

crops far away if they're not competing with Peru and Mexico. But it's still not yet clear

if the tariffs will stick. For NPR News, I'm Anna King. The House of Representatives today

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