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Giles Snyder
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump used his State of the Union speech Tuesday night to claim the country is stronger than ever, even though polls show voters are worried about the economy. He also confronted Democrats, some of whom shouted at the president over his immigration crackdown.
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President Trump
They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country, and you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Giles Snyder
Democrats largely stayed seated while Republicans stood to applaud. NPR's Domenico Montanaro has more on President Trump's reset on immigration.
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Domenico Montanaro
He tried to rebrand on immigration. He tried to reset this message of his that he's always focused on, which are these kind of gory anecdotes talking about border security and deporting criminals. And it's sort of this warning to voters that if Democrats are back in office, they'll let the immigrants back in. And that's part of the midterm message. And it's something that Trump believes that he was elected on in the first place. Remember, there have been more than a couple times in this first year when he's said that he doesn't think that the economy was the thing that got him elected, that it was immigration and crime, even though the exit polls would tell you something different.
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Giles Snyder
Virginia Governor Abigail Spamberger delivered the Democratic response, disputing President Trump's assertion that the nation is in a golden age, saying many Americans are feeling the pinch of high costs more than a year into his second term.
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Virginia Governor Abigail Spamberger
As I campaigned for governor last year, I traveled to every corner of Virginia and I heard the same pressing concern everywhere. Costs are too high in housing, health care, energy and childcare. And I know these same conversations are being had all across this country.
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Giles Snyder
President Trump's speech Tuesday night was the longest presidential address before Congress in recent history. It beat the record Trump himself set last year. As NPR's Eva Berger reports, Trump promised
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Eva Berger
he would deliver a long State of the Union speech, and he delivered. His speech Tuesday ran approximately one hour and 48 minutes. It's the longest address before a joint session of Congress in at least 60 years. That's according to the American Presidency Project, which has tracked speech length since 1964. The runtime included significant pauses for applause and several disruptions. It was about nine minutes longer than Trump's own record breaking speech from last year. That address was not technically a State of the Union, and it ran for an hour and 39 minutes. Former President Bill Clinton previously held the record for longest State of the Union with his 2000 speech lasting an hour and 28 minutes. The shortest speech in the past 60 years was former President Richard Nixon's 1972 address. Eva Berger, NPR News, Washington.
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Giles Snyder
And from Washington, you're listening to NPR News. TODAY show host Savannah Guthrie says her family is now offering a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of her mother. Savannah Guthrie says the family is still holding out for a miracle, but but she also acknowledged in a video Tuesday that it might be too late. She says her family needs to know where Nancy Guthrie is no matter what happened. More snow in the forecast for the Northeast. National Weather Service says a clipper system will bring heavy snow to parts of the Great Lakes region today before moving further into New England, where crews are still working to clear piles of snow from that huge storm that hit earlier this week. New York City mayors are on mamdanis as the city has spread some 143 million pounds of salt. Plans for the biggest solar farm in the country are moving ahead in California's Central valley. That's where 200 square miles are being set aside where farmers can't grow crops anymore.
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Dan Charles
As Dan Charles reports, the solar project is planned for farmland west of Fresno. Farmers there have been leaving much of their land fallow, either because they don't have enough water to grow crops on it or because of problems with the soil. Now they've struck a deal with a solar developer to harvest sunlight instead. If it's built, the entire project would generate up to 20,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power millions of homes. The project has cleared an environmental review, but the organization that manages California's electrical grid still has to approve construction of big power lines to carry all this electricity from the Central Valley to cities on the coast. For NPR News, I'm Dan Charles in Fresno.
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Giles Snyder
And I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News from Washington.
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