Trump 2nd term live updates: Trump defends tariffs, declines to comment on Ukraine aid

Despite Trump’s targeting of transgender people and an anti-equality majority in the Senate, lawmakers refused to move the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act forward, with Democrats voting in unison to block it from advancing during a floor vote Monday night.

The bill failed by a vote of 51-45. It would have needed 60 votes to progress.

All Democrats present voted to stop the bill from moving forward.

In a statement, the Human Rights Campaign said, "The Senate’s rejection of this anti-LGBTQ+ attack sends a clear message that attempts to legislate away freedoms for LGBTQ+ people and their families will be met with resistance."

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin

WWE co-founder Linda McMahon was confirmed as U.S. secretary of education Monday evening by a party-line vote of 51-45. Two Republican and two Democratic senators weren’t present for the vote.

The Trump loyalist and donor, who previously served as the head of the Small Business Administration during his first term, will be tasked with shutting down the federal agency she was confirmed to lead.

-ABC News’ Arthur Jones II

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will attend Trump's address to Congress on Tuesday night, the lawmaker announced Monday.

Jeffries said he and Democratic leaders will attend “to make clear to the nation that there is a strong opposition party ready, willing and able to serve as a check and balance on the excesses of the administration.”

“The decision to attend the Joint Session is a personal one and we understand that members will come to different conclusions. However, it is important to have a strong, determined and dignified Democratic presence in the chamber. The House as an institution belongs to the American people, and as their representatives we will not be run off the block or bullied,” Jeffries wrote in a letter to colleagues.

Jeffries said Democrats are “encouraged” to “stand together” on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. on the East Front Capitol Steps “for an event featuring the voices of the American people.”

-ABC News' Lauren Peller

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, who is delivering the Democratic response tomorrow, previewed her speech on a call with Democrats today in which she outlined its focus on economic security, national security, and securing the democracy, according to sources.

She is also expected to take on Trump and Elon Musk's efforts to shrink the size of the federal government, and she plans to bring someone directly impacted by those efforts -- Andrew Lennox, a Marine who served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria who was fired from his job at the VA in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

-ABC News' Rachel Scott and John Parkinson