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(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump will deliver a joint address to Congress on Tuesday evening during which he\u2019ll no doubt try to highlight the ways he is delivering on the \u201cmandate\u201d that he and Republicans say they were given by Americans during the 2024 election.<\/p>\n

Democrats hope to have a response to that from one of the Senate\u2019s newest initiates: Michigan freshmen Elissa Slotkin.<\/p>\n

Slotkin made her name during her six years serving in the House of Representatives as a moderate unafraid to, at times, challenge her party\u2019s conventions. She has promised a rebuttal to Trump\u2019s speech focused on economic and national security.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to speaking directly to the American people next week. The public expects leaders to level with them on what\u2019s actually happening in our country,\u201d Slotkin said in a statement announcing her speech last week. \u201cFrom our economic security to our national security, we\u2019ve got to chart a way forward that actually improves people\u2019s lives in the country we all love, and I\u2019m looking forward to laying that out.\u201d<\/p>\n

She is also expected to take on Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to shrink the size of the federal government. Democrats have invited a number of fired federal workers as their guests for the speech.<\/p>\n

Slotkin’s guest will be Andrew Lennox, who served as a Marine in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria and was fired from his job with the Department of Veterans Affairs in Ann Arbor, Michigan.<\/p>\n

“You spend 10 years trying to defend your country in terms of honesty, integrity, and justice and then you come back and get copy and pasted the same email as 10,000 other people about performance,” Lennox told ABC News.<\/p>\n

Slotkin\u2019s speech comes as Democrats look to collect themselves after a punishing 2024 campaign cycle that saw Trump handily defeat then-Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 bid for the White House. Democrats didn\u2019t fare much better down ballot, losing control of the Senate and failing to recapture the House.<\/p>\n

As Democratic leadership tries to zero in on a new strategy to reach moderate voters, they\u2019re looking to beam the spotlight onto Slotkin, who pulled off a narrow win in purple Michigan this November, beating Republican nominee Mike Rogers, who had served seven terms in the House, in a race for the state\u2019s open Senate seat, even as Trump won Michigan by 80,000 votes.<\/p>\n

Her focus on reproductive rights and economic issues like lowering costs for families, coupled with her track record in the House, helped her eke out a narrow victory in the Senate race. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries took notice in selecting her to deliver the Democrats’ response.<\/p>\n

Schumer called Slotkin a \u201crising star\u201d of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

“As you know, Elissa is a rising star in our party. The American people are going to love what she has to say. She’s just great — on both economic and national security. I’m excited, I think we’re all excited,” Schumer said following the formal announcement that Slotkin would deliver the response to Trump.<\/p>\n

Slotkin is a former CIA agent who worked as a Middle East analyst. She served three tours in Iraq in this role. She then worked at the White House and Pentagon during the Bush and Obama administrations before launching a bid for the House.<\/p>\n

She won her seat in the House of Representatives in 2018, ousting a two-term GOP incumbent. During her tenure, she flexed her national security bona fides, serving on the Armed Services, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs committee.<\/p>\n

During her time in the House, Slotkin was consistently ranked among the most bipartisan members of the chamber. She occasionally voted across party lines and, in her earliest votes in the Senate, demonstrated a willingness to continue that bipartisan streak. She was one of 12 Democrats who voted in favor of the Republican-led Laken Riley Act earlier this year, helping to send the bill to Trump\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n

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