Top Democratic lawmakers on energy and the environment will skip President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday.
Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced Tuesday morning he would pass on the event. Heinrich is the highest-ranking energy-adjacent Democrat to announce a boycott so far.
“I’m not going to President Trump’s Joint Address tonight,” Heinrich said. “I’ll start attending when he starts following the law.”
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Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.), a vice chair of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition and member of the Financial Services Committee, will similarly not be in the House chamber. Casten released a fiery statement explaining why he won’t attend.
