Mara Liason

He might not have the votes.

We just saw six House Republicans vote with Democrats against the tariffs on Canada.

How are Democrats responding?

Well, several Democratic governors, including Illinois' J.B.

Pritzker and California's Gavin Newsom, demanded that the White House pay back tariff revenues to their states.

The administration pushed back on that, saying that has to work its way through the courts.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was asked about the impact of tariffs on Fox News Sunday yesterday.

Here's what he said.

So the short translation, Trump made you pay more and it wasn't even legal.

That's likely to be the Democrats' message going into the midterms.

Well, the timing is pretty auspicious.

The State of the Unions are any president's biggest opportunities to speak to the public.

And the big question for me is how much time Trump will spend in his State of the Union address excoriating the Supreme Court justices.

Who will be sitting right in front of him?

Will he repeat his insults, call them lapdogs and fools?

Or how much time he will be talking about affordability?

That's something he has struggled to do consistently for months.

NPR senior national political correspondent Mara Eliason.

You're welcome.

In the past, Trump has shown that he prefers military actions that you could call one and done.