But as the Russia investigation grips Washington and contentious impasses over spending and immigration threaten to undercut Trump's legislative agenda and his party's electoral future in 2018, any unity Trump hoped to inject with his speech was quickly shattered.
Trump's bipartisan overtures on infrastructure and foreign policy were met rapidly with reality: Republicans and Democrats are bitterly divided in Washington over everything from immigration to health care to budget negotiations. And there's little that Trump can say to undo the partisan rancor.
"It was long on platitudes and short on particulars," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire who said she was particularly disappointed with the President's comments on opioids, which she said didn't even address the financial cost of solving the problem.
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