Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin gave the Democratic response to Trump’s speech from Wyandotte, Michigan, where she noted that both she and Trump won with voters last November. She said that President Donald Trump is “trying to deliver an unprecedented giveaway to his billionaire friends,” in Democratic response to his first joint congressional address of his second presidency. Slotkin attempted to present a refined economic message as the Democratic Party continues to struggle to unify around a strategy to counter Trump. “No CEO in America could do that without being summarily fired," she said. Slotkin criticized a Trump administration effort led by Musk for firing scores of federal employees only to rehire them then after realizing those dismissed worked on critical issues. She suggested that Musk himself would have lost his job if he had done similarly in the business world. “Grocery prices and home prices are going up, not down," Slotkin said. "And he hasn’t laid out a credible plan to deal with either of those.” Grocery prices aren’t actually rising by much, except for high-profile items such as eggs. Grocery costs, on average, have risen just 1.9% in the past year. At the peak of inflation in 2022, grocery prices soared more than 13% in a year.