Michigan Democrat Elissa Slotkin was elected to the Senate in 2024. She will give the response President Donald Trump's speech to Congress.

Newly elected Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan delivered her political party’s response to President Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night. Slotkin, 48, is the youngest Democratic woman elected to the U.

Elissa Slotkin defeated GOP former Rep. Mike Rogers in the race for Michigan’s open Senate seat, per NBC News. It helped that she got an early endorsement from former President Barack Obama, whom she worked with in the State Department and the Department of Defense during his presidency.

Freshman Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, will deliver the rebuttal to President Trump’s State of the Union-style speech on Tuesday night. Slotkin served in the House of Representatives from 2019 to 2025 and served three tours in Iraq as a Central Intelligence Agency analyst.

Senator Slotkin, a freshman senator from Michigan, will deliver the Democratic Party’s response to President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday evening.

U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin from Michigan delivered the Democratic response to President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. In remarks delivered from Wyandotte, Michigan (about 15 miles south of Detroit),

Mich., who represents a swing state, to give the party's official response to President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. "BIG: I’m announcing @SenatorSlotkin will deliver our Democratic response to Trump’s Joint Address.

Elissa Slotkin, who will deliver the Democrats' response to Trump's address to Congress, is a former CIA agent who served three tours in Iraq before running for Congress.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin lit into Trump in the Democratic response to his speech, suggesting that Ronald Reagan would be appalled by his approach to Russia.

Democrats have chosen Elissa Slotkin, a first-time senator from Michigan, to deliver the party's response to Donald Trump's speech in the U.S. Congress.

The freshman senator from a swing state will speak to Americans nationwide as Democrats wrestle with how to push back against the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the federal government.