Members of Congress representing Butler County both praised and criticized President Donald Trump on Tuesday, after the president laid out a sweeping and aggressive agenda.

Trump's address Tuesday night — his first to Congress since taking office — was both measured and forceful as he highlighted an agenda that won enthusiastic applause from Republicans but sustained criticism from Democrats.

Trump's remarks included references to replacing former President Barack Obama's health care law and reforming the country's tax code. Trump said he wanted to usher in “a new chapter of American greatness,” through economic renewal and military strength, and asked the country to jettison “trivial fights” in pursuit of a shared national destiny.

U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-3rd, praised Trump's remarks as “a proclamation of strength, confidence and ambition.”

“It was one of the most positive and unifying addresses I have ever heard delivered at that podium,” Kelly said in an e-mailed statement. “His forward-looking messages reaffirmed my belief that he has exactly the right vision at the right time to guide America in the right direction.”

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat, didn't share that view. He criticized Trump and congressional Republicans following the address, saying the party and the president planned to “destroy” Medicaid by turning it into a block program, which Casey said would cut $1 trillion from the program.

“President Trump has stocked his cabinet with architects of schemes to end the guaranteed benefit of Medicare, decimate Medicaid and privatize Social Security,” Casey said in a statement following Trump's address.

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, praised the president's economic agenda and his pledge to roll back regulations on business and industry. Toomey also talked about school choice and Trump's sweeping deportation policies in positive terms.

He said it was up to Democrats in Congress to take a more productive approach during Trump's first term, and accused them of obstructing congressional approval of cabinet-level appointees from the White House.

“None of us will agree with the president all the time. Nevertheless, the country needs lawmakers to resist the call of obstructionism and work with the president where they can, to tackle the great fiscal, economic, and security challenges of our time,” Toomey said in a release.