Trump urges Congress on 7 legislative priorities in State of Union address

President Donald Trump laid out a lengthy to-do list for Congress during his State of the Union address Tuesday, urging lawmakers seven times to act on priorities ranging from drug prices and border security to crime and housing policy.

Codifying the price of “Trump Rx” prescription drugs

Trump urged Congress to enshrine his “most favored nation” drug pricing policy into law as part of his “Trump Rx” initiative. This policy aims to tie prescription drug prices in the United States to the lowest prices paid by other developed countries.

Earlier this month, his administration launched the TrumpRx website, a federal platform designed to allow Americans to search for select brand-name drugs and access lower negotiated prices.

The site is the result of agreements with the White House said in December it has agreements with nine major pharmaceutical companies, including Amgen, Merck, Novartis, Sanofi and Bristol Myers Squibb. It lists dozens of high-cost drugs offered at reduced prices to treat conditions such as diabetes, asthma, HIV, hepatitis C, multiple sclerosis and cardiovascular disease.

A page from the TrumpRx website is displayed on February 9, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Although he suggested it would be politically difficult to roll back the policy, Trump asked lawmakers to “codify it anyway.”

Make Wall Street’s Home Buying Ban Permanent

After highlighting the story of a Houston mother who was outbid on 20 homes by investment firms, Trump asked Congress to make permanent his executive order banning large Wall Street-backed companies from purchasing single-family homes in bulk. “We want housing for people, not for businesses,” he said.

Pass the Stop Insider Trading Act

While outlining retirement policy changes and pledging to protect Social Security and Medicare, Trump turned to ethics reform, calling on lawmakers to “pass the ‘anti-insider trading law’ without delay.”

The measure would prohibit members of Congress from purchasing individual stocks and require prior public notice before the sale.

TRUMP TAKES JAB AT PELOSI BY NAME OVER HISTORY OF CONTROVERSIAL STOCK TRADING

Lawmakers attend the State of the Union address on the floor of the U.S. Capitol, February 24, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., who introduced the bill, told FOX Business in January, “If you want to trade stocks, you should go to Wall Street, not Capitol Hill. I think we have an opportunity here to dramatically improve America’s trust in Congress.”

Adopt the “Dalilah Law”

Following the story of a young girl who was seriously injured in a crash involving an illegal immigrant truck driver, Trump called on Congress to pass what he dubbed the “Delilah Law,” banning states from issuing commercial driver’s licenses to people residing in the country illegally.

“Dalilah Coleman was just five years old in June 2024 when an 18-wheel tractor-trailer slammed into her stopped car, traveling 60 miles per hour or more,” Trump said. “The driver was an illegal alien admitted by Joe Biden and given a commercial driver’s license by open border California politicians.”

Coleman’s father said the accident left her in a coma for three weeks and required six months of hospital care before her family could bring her home.

Restore funding for border security and homeland security

Trump accused Democrats of cutting funding to the Department of Homeland Security, which is currently operating under a partial shutdown after lawmakers failed to reach agreement on a funding bill.

He demanded the “full and immediate restoration” of funding for border security and homeland security, seeing it as essential to protecting Americans from crime and terrorism.

DHS ALL IS ‘MOST SECURE BORDER’ IN U.S. HISTORY AMID DEPARTURE OF NEARLY 3 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

President Donald Trump speaks during the State of the Union address on the floor of the U.S. Capitol, February 24, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Ending Sanctuary Cities

The president also urged lawmakers to end so-called sanctuary city policies, calling for “severe sanctions” against public officials who block the deportation of criminal illegal immigrants.

“They’re blocking the removal of these people from our country. And you should be ashamed of yourself,” Trump told Democrats to Republican cheers.

ICE ARRESTS CONVICTED PEDOPHILES AND VIOLENT ASSAULTS AS Trump MEETS WITH FAMILIES OF ANGELS

President Donald Trump leaves after delivering the State of the Union address in the Hall of the U.S. Capitol, February 24, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Pass tougher laws for repeat offenders

Closing his legislative appeals, Trump called on Congress to pass tougher sentencing laws to ensure that “violent and dangerous repeat offenders are put behind bars — and, most importantly, stay there.”

He cited the death of Iryna Zarutska, 23, a Ukrainian refugee, stabbed to death on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, in August.

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“Iryna was heading home on the train when a deranged monster who had been arrested more than a dozen times and released without bail, stood up and violently slashed her neck and body with a knife. No one will ever forget that there were people on that train,” Trump said. “No one will ever forget the look of terror on Iryna’s face as she looked up at her attacker in the final seconds of her life. She died instantly. She had escaped a brutal war, only to be killed by a hardened criminal released to kill in America.”

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