Trump’s Olive Branch to Democrats Cut Short by Divisive Tone
- Partisan divide laid bare in inflammatory immigration remarks
- ‘The president has attacked our families,’ Democrat says
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Donald Trump reached across the aisle in his first State of the Union address, offering to work with Democrats on infrastructure, criminal justice and drug prices after a divisive first year in office.
But those overtures in Tuesday’s speech fell flat with his opponents, who found little reason to warm to his vision for 2018. His bipartisan proposals were thin -- two sentences spent on job training; one on paid family leave. The most substantive stretch of his remarks, an explanation of his immigration policies, was his most divisive.