Cato Podcast
Cato Podcast
Cato Institute
Rhetoric vs. Reality in the State of the Union
40 minutes Posted Feb 26, 2026 at 11:45 am.
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President Trump’s State of the Union on Tuesday was a full-throated victory lap: America is supposedly “bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever.” Cato’s Ryan Bourne, Clark Neily, and Evan Sankey separate truth from exaggeration—testing the economic claims, unpacking the legal fight over tariff power, and decoding the foreign-policy moves behind the applause lines.

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