Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., President blew Donald Trump’s The agenda of foreign policy on Tuesday after the president had applied for the congress and claimed that Trump would have lost the Cold War if he had been president in the 1980s.
Slotkin’s comments come after Trump one Address to a joint session of the Congress Tuesday In a speech comparable to the annual state of the Union, where he stated that “America is back” and that the “American dream is rising”.
“We all want to put an end to the war in Ukraine, but Reagan understood that true power required America to combine our military and economic power with moral clarity,” said Slotkin, who was tapped to provide the official response of the Democratic Party to Trump’s address. “As a child of the Cold War, I am grateful that it was Reagan and not Trump in office in the 1980s. Trump would have lost us the Cold War.”
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President Donald Trump focused on March 5, 2025 to members of the congress, where he discussed plans to end the war in Ukraine. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty images)
Slotkin zero in Trump’s tense Friday exchange with the Ukrainian president VolodyMyr Zenskyy, Where Trump and Vice President JD Vance with Zenskyy spoke about whether diplomacy was the best way to bring peace to end the conflict.
Trump and Vance said that Zenskyy was not grateful to the US, and the exchange stopped peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and to give a break to a rare-earth minerals deal between Washington and Kiev.
However, in his speech to congress, Trump revealed that Ukraine was ready to resume peace negotiations and was ready to sign a mineral agreement that would give the US access to the minerals of Ukraine in exchange for American support in the country.
While Trump has advertised, he tries to reach peace through strength, a term conceived by former President Ronald Reagan, Reagan must “roll in his grave” after the “spectacle” between Trump and Zenskyy in the Oval Office, Slotkin said.
Slotkin, a former CIA analyst who worked in the Pentagon and the White House under both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, also attacked the government’s efforts to reduce the workforce of the federal government.
“The brainless shooting of people who work to protect our nuclear weapons from crashing our aircraft and conducting the research that the cure for cancer finds them again to rent them again two days later? No CEO in America could do that without being fired briefly,” Slotkin said.
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Senator Elissa Slotkin previously served as a member of the American House of Representatives before she became a member of the Senate in 2025. (Reuters)
The Trump government sent a memo in February to instruct agencies in the federal government to launch plans for “large-scale reductions of strength” and to construct the reorganization plans for mid-March.
Slotkin did indicate that Republicans and Democrats should work together on immigration, after Trump has indicated on Tuesday that his administration “launched the most radical border and immigration in American history.”
“Every country deserves to know who and what the border encounters. Period,” said Slotkin. “Democrats and Republicans must all be for that.”
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On Tuesday, Trump said that he had sent the congress a detailed financing request that it was explained how to eliminate how to eliminate and perform the “largest deportation operation in American history”, and urged the chairman of the house Mike Johnson, R-la, and Senate majority leader John Thune, rs.d.
Slotkin also encouraged American citizens to remain involved and to keep their chosen officials responsible – a task that she described as ‘American as an apple pie’.
“Keep your chosen officials, including me, responsible,” said Slotkin. “See how they vote. Go to the town halls and demand that they take action.”