Trump airs familiar grievances, charts MAGA plan in address before bitterly divided Congress

FACT CHECK: This is unverifiable.

This claim is unverifiable because DOGE has yet to release the entirety of its work or specify which cuts have been "fraud" as opposed to "waste." DOGE has claimed to have saved $106 billion in total savings, not "hundreds of billions" in fraud, and even Elon Musk himself has said they have mostly found "waste" and "mostly not fraud."

DOGE has claimed it has saved a total of $106 billion in federal money from a "combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions." The figure remains unverifiable and DOGE’s website claims to have posted only 30% of the receipts supporting this total.

Even Musk himself said on Joe Rogan’s podcast last week that most of what DOGE is finding is "waste," rather than outright fraud. "Only the federal government could get away with this level of waste. It's mostly waste. It's mostly not fraud, it's mostly waste. It's mostly just ridiculous things happening," Musk said.

-ABC News' Soo Rin Kim and Will Steakin

Trump has been speaking for one hour. His remarks so far resemble the tone of his 2024 campaign speeches, as he weaves from one topic to another. He is currently railing against illegal immigration, the southern border and criminal cartels, which were some of his favorite topics to talk about on the trail.

Democratic Reps. Sydney Kamlager-Dove and Maxwell Frost released statements after they left the speech.

"Through walking out, my message to Donald Trump is simple: stop the lies, stop the cheating, and stop the stealing -- enough is enough. The American people deserve better," Kamlager-Dove said.

"Donald Trump is many things -- a liar, a grifter, a wanna-be-dictator -- but no matter how hard he tries and how many Republicans in Congress bend the knee and kiss the ring: he will never be king," Frost said.

-ABC News' John Parkinson

Trump once again bashed former President Joe Biden for his immigration policy, arguing that a new president was needed to resolve the issue of illegal border crossings.

“Friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation to secure the border,” Trump said, before arguing that "turns out, all we really needed" was a new president.