President Donald Trump is set to address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, six weeks into a presidency that has been marked by mass firings of federal workers, steep tariffs on U.S. trading partners and an extraordinary pause in U.

President Trump will stand before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday to give an accounting of his first weeks in office. Meanwhile, Trump’s long-threatened tariffs against Canada and Mexico finally went into effect Tuesday,

President Trump is expected to boast about his assault on the federal bureaucracy and his efforts to upend global relationships during an address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, even as his administration faces lawsuits over his domestic agenda and Europe rebukes him over his treatment of Ukraine.

U.S. President Donald Trump forcefully dismissed a journalist’s question about his stance on Russian President Vladimir Putin, asserting, “I gave Russia nothing but grief.” The exchange took place amid growing tensions following Trump’s explosive Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.