--- title: Keith Ellison Will Bring Tom Perez to Donald Trump's Address description: DNC Chairman Tom Perez will attend Donald Trump's first major Congressional address with Keith Ellison canonical: https://time.com/4685072/tom-perez-keith-ellison-donald-trump-address/ author: Madeline Farber article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-28T00:40:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:33:49.478Z article:section: Politics og:title: Keith Ellison Will Bring Tom Perez to President Trump's Congressional Address og:description: The DNC chairman will be Ellison's guest og:url: https://time.com/4685072/tom-perez-keith-ellison-donald-trump-address/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16e8f1f58c5f43dd/6988bbf6656a3f69a4bceeca/tom-perez.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, speculated to be on the short list for Hillary Clinton's Vice President, addresses a women's summit at the Department of Labor in Washington, DC. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Keith Ellison Will Bring Tom Perez to President Trump's Congressional Address twitter:description: The DNC chairman will be Ellison's guest twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16e8f1f58c5f43dd/6988bbf6656a3f69a4bceeca/tom-perez.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Keith Ellison Will Bring DNC Chairman Tom Perez to President Trump's Congressional Address > Sponsored content. 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Bill O'Leary—The Washington Post/Getty Images by [Madeline Farber](https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/) ## Madeline Farber Feb 28, 2017 12:40 AM UTC Tom Perez, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, is slated to attend the President’s first major congressional address on Tuesday — as a guest of his former rival Rep. [Keith Ellison](http://time.com/4643955/keith-ellison-democrat-dnc/) (D-Minn.). “DNC Chair Tom Perez has always been on the side of working people, and I am honored to have him as my guest to tomorrow evening’s Presidential Address,” Ellison said in a statement, [according to the Hill](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321432-new-dnc-chairman-to-attend-trumps-speech-to-congress). Over the weekend, [Perez defeated Ellison](http://time.com/4682945/democrat-chair-vote/) to become the next head of the DNC during a second round of ballots at a meeting in Atlanta, Ga. “Tom will stand up for working Americans and fight Trump every step of the way in every corner of the country,” Ellison said. “I look forward to standing by his side, along with every other American who wants a fair economy.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4685072/tom-perez-keith-ellison-donald-trump-address/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4685072/tom-perez-keith-ellison-donald-trump-address/"},"headline":"Keith Ellison Will Bring DNC Chairman Tom Perez to President Trump's Congressional Address","datePublished":"2017-02-28T00:40:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:33:49.478Z","description":"As Ellison's guest","url":"https://time.com/4685072/tom-perez-keith-ellison-donald-trump-address/","keywords":["Congress","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16e8f1f58c5f43dd/6988bbf6656a3f69a4bceeca/tom-perez.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Madeline Farber","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16e8f1f58c5f43dd/6988bbf6656a3f69a4bceeca/tom-perez.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, speculated to be on the short list for Hillary Clinton's Vice President, addresses a women's summit at the Department of Labor in Washington, DC.","caption":"Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, speculated to be on the short list for Hillary Clinton's Vice President, addresses a women's summit at the Department of Labor in Washington, DC.","creditText":"Bill O'Leary—The Washington Post/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/congress/","name":"Congress"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4685072/tom-perez-keith-ellison-donald-trump-address/","name":"Keith Ellison Will Bring DNC Chairman Tom Perez to President Trump's Congressional Address"}}]}] ```