The Governor of Virginia State In the United States, Abigail Spanberger, has delivered the Democratic Party’s response, following President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, posing a series of direct questions to Americans about their economic and social wellbeing.

President Trump spoke to a joint session of Congress, outlining his policy priorities, including immigration enforcement, federal spending cuts, maintaining tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court and recent military actions abroad.

Soon after, Governor Spanberger offered the official Democratic rebuttal from Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, a living history museum with restored 18th-century buildings, drawing on the site’s role at the heart of Virginia’s early opposition to British rule and connecting that legacy to the current political moment

President Trump was slated to champion his immigration crackdowns, his slashing of the federal government, his push to preserve widespread tariffs that the Supreme Court just struck down and his ability to direct quick-hit military actions around the world, including in Iran and Venezuela and Mexico.

On Tuesday night, however, Spanberger posed questions about Trump’s second term in Democratic rebuttal.

She asked, “Is the president working to make life more affordable for you and your family? We all know the answer is no.”

Throughout her Democratic response to Trump’s address, Spanberger posed a series of questions to Americans, asking whether they feel life has improved since he returned to office.

The Democrat, who flipped a Republican-held office last year, is hoping voters across the country will share that assessment when they head to the polls in November.

Spanberger takes on affordability message in Democratic response to Trump

Spanberger is arguing in her Democratic rebuttal that costs remain high for many Americans more than a year into his second term.

Her message, that families are still struggling under Trump’s policies, is one Democrats plan to carry nationwide ahead of the midterm elections.

Party leaders point to Spanberger’s double-digit victory in Virginia last November as validation of a disciplined, cost-focused campaign they now hope to replicate across the country.