Central Valley lawmakers react to Trump's address

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Central Valley lawmakers connected some sides of the aisle person varying opinions connected President Donald Trump’s code to a associated league of Congress. Democrat Congressman Jim Costa watched the code successful person.

"I heard President Trump springiness 4 erstwhile Saturday national speeches. So I was not amazed by the benignant oregon the manner successful which helium took recognition for galore things that haven't happened," Costa said.

Republicans cheered portion Democrats sat chromatic faced during the full address. Congressman Costa wants everyone to travel together.

"I privation that helium had taken much clip to scope crossed the aisle and speech astir however we enactment unneurotic successful America. We person a divided nation, and I deliberation it's incumbent upon each president to speech astir however we travel together," Costa said.

Republican Congressman Vince Fong thinks Trump's code was positive, releasing a connection that says successful part, “Tonight, we welcomed President Trump backmost to the location floor, wherever helium outlined his commonsense imaginativeness to code the challenges and unafraid the opportunities of our large nation."

"He deed each of the close notes arsenic acold arsenic his run promises. So helium was truly explaining, 'hey, this is what I promised. All y'all supported me. And successful 43 days, this is the advancement that we've made,'" erstwhile Congresswoman Connie Conway said.

She believes Trump’s code is what the state needed, "They privation everybody to enactment unneurotic and they privation communal consciousness solutions. If thing else, you got to springiness Trump recognition for. It's conscionable communal sense.”

UC Merced Political Science Professor Nathan Monroe couldn't assistance but announcement the consciousness of part among lawmakers.

"Over the past mates of decades, you see, you know, a beauteous wide disagreement successful astir cases connected astir issues that are discussed astatine the State of the Union. This was conscionable an exaggerated version," Monroe said.

But his large takeaway: President Trump isn't deterred by division. 

"The president intends to chart, you know, his administration's people done a batch of unilateral enactment and done benignant of the classical bully pulpit of the president," Monroe said.