The daily business briefing: January 29, 2018

Trump puts final touches on SOTU emphasizing economic gains, national security officials weigh building a 5G wireless network, and more

President Trump at the World Economic Forum
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1. Trump puts final touches on State of the Union touting strong economy

President Trump is expected to use his first State of the Union address on Tuesday to emphasize gains the U.S. economy has made since he took office, in a bid to shift attention from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling. Trump's aides said he stayed at the White House over the weekend to prepare his speech, which will point to economic growth, low unemployment, and anticipated benefits of GOP tax cuts. "The president is going to talk about how America's back," said White House legislative director Marc Short. "The president is also going to make an appeal to Democrats [...] to say we need to rebuild our country. And to make an appeal that to do infrastructure, we need to do it in a bipartisan way."

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.