In record State of the Union, Trump spars with Dems, touts economy and immigration

ABC News Live "Prime" anchor Linsey Davis spoke with House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain of Michigan about President Trump's highly-anticipated address.

McClain previewed what she expects the president to emphasize -- economic progress, tax cuts and affordability -- and weighed in on the political stakes ahead of the midterm elections.

"I think any time this president speaks, it is very, very crucial, right? As the conference messenger, I take my cues from the White House and from our Republican colleagues as to what message we're going to send forward. And the message that we're really trying to send is forward is commonsense, affordability, bringing costs down and bringing wages up, and we do that through less regulation and lower taxes," McClain said.

Hours before Trump was scheduled to give his speech, the Senate failed to advance a procedural motion to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

By a vote of 50-45, senators for the second time failed to advance House-passed legislation to fund and fully reopen DHS. The first vote, on Feb. 12, failed 52-47. It's now 11 days into the partial government shutdown.

A group of five bipartisan senators: Deb Fischer, R-Neb.; Maggie Hassan, D-NH; Rand Paul, R-Ky; Thom Tillis, R-NC; and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, did not vote on Tuesday.

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., voted with Republicans for the appropriations bill. Majority Leader John Thune voted no in order to procedurally make the piece of legislation up for reconsideration.

-ABC News' Isabella Murray

First lady Melania Trump is bringing two guests to the State of the Union address to help highlight her AI and foster care initiatives.

She'll be joined by Sierra Burns, who is a recipient of the first lady's Foster Youth to Independence Program and Everest Nevraumont, a 10-year old student who has talked about her AI use in her education, according to the first lady's office.

"Sierra and Everest embody my ongoing mission to uplift America’s foster youth and expand opportunity for our next generation through education and technology," Melania Trump said in a statement.

ABC News’ Fritz Farrow

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Trump’s speech would be “painful and tedious for the American people,” and that the president would blame Democrats and the Supreme Court for the nation’s troubles.

“America is deeply unhappy with Trump's leadership, and he'll blame everyone else for our country's troubles. He'll blame Biden, he'll blame the Supreme Court. He'll point the finger at everyone but himself,” Schumer said Tuesday afternoon.

"So tonight, Americans aren't going to get the real state of the union ... What Americans will get is a state of deception, a state of denial,” he said.

Schumer said that some of the chaos was the administration’s crackdown on immigration, Trump's tariff policies and his involvement with the Jeffery Epstein investigation.

-ABC News’ Isabella Murray