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Up First podcast from NPR. Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. President Donald Trump

will address a joint session of Congress tonight, a speech that looks like a state of the union,

but technically isn't given it's the first of his new term.

The White House says the theme of Trump's speech will be the renewal of the American dream.

Ben-Bier's Daniel Kurtzleben reports there are also plenty of controversies for him to talk about.

Trump's speech comes as new tariffs he's imposed have gone into effect on China and allies Canada and Mexico.

Tariffs are taxes paid to import goods from abroad.

That means U.S. businesses pay U.S. tariffs.

Those tariffs can cause higher prices for consumers.

The speech also comes as the U.S. has suspended military aid to Ukraine days after an Oval Office argument between Trump,

Vice President Vance, and Ukraine

President Volodymyr Zelensky. During his speech, Trump is expected to ask Congress to pass

new funding for border security and possibly also an extension of tax cuts. Danielle Kurtzleben,

NPR News. Al-Mas, Department of Government Efficiency continues to delete hundreds of items from its

wall of receipts. As NPR's Bobby Allen explains, the cost-cutting unit has been scaling back its

publicized savings after errors in exaggeration. Elon Musk has been promoting a wall of receipts page on

his Department of Government Efficiency or Doge website. But as questions have been raised about

numerous canceled federal contracts, more and more

receipts have been disappearing.

In fact, items totaling about $4 billion in supposed savings have been erased.

Some of them were old contracts with money already spent or items that have been double or

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