House Republicans are in the mood for celebration, led by President Donald Trump’s joint speech to Congress on Tuesday evening.
In a speech entitled “Updating the American Dream,” the president will highlight the administration’s early victory by reducing border security, domestic energy production and wasted spending. House Republicans want to see a big victory in passing the budget resolution and be the first step towards moving Trump’s first year legislative priorities into law, and highlight whether their meetings have already been offered on the president’s agenda.
GOP lawmakers are also optimistic that a quick victory over border security and the administration’s support for cost-cutting efforts will allow the conference to ignore historic odds and expand its slim majority in the middle of 2026. (“He has a personality”: Stephen A. Smith warns that Byron Donald will be a major threat to Dem as a presidential candidate)
The administration has lowered encounters at the southern border, which have not been seen since the 1960s. Congressional Republicans are currently sending additional funds to federal immigration authorities through the budget settlement process to pilot immigration enforcement laws to the president’s desk.
“We are in a very strong position to ignore what the standard is,” Johnson said at a House Republican leadership press conference Tuesday. “Traditionally, it is not expected that a new president will pick up a seat in the middle of his party’s first two years, but we intend to increase the majority next year.”
“We’re riding the wave of popularity of President Trump’s policies,” Johnson added. “The vote continues to show us that Americans are with us on issues.”
Congressional Republican Americans’ approval rating is in a Record height Since Quinnipiac began asking voters about Congressional duties in 2009, the February Kinnipiac survey found that Congressional Democrats’ favor ratings have been slowly rated since ancient times.
WASHINGTON, DC – March 4: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) (c) will speak at a press conference at the Republican National Committee following the House Republican Conference meeting held in Washington, DC on March 4, 2025. Republicans discussed their party’s priorities ahead of President Trump’s first joint speech since returning to the White House. (Photo: Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images)
After the party’s blow loss last November, Democrats remain divided on how to win the election, but some Democrats in Congress have Strategic How to confuse the president’s primetime speech. Republican lawmakers seem confident that if Democrats decide to disrupt the lawsuit, potential Congressional Democrats will face backlash from voters who elected the GOP Three Regiment.
“We’re happy to see Democrats constantly losing their loving heart,” Texas Republican Rep. Randy Weber told DCNF. “There’s a new sheriff in town and good things are happening.”
GOP lawmakers are also keen to fight Congressional Democrats on the issue, claiming that Republican vision for the country is far more popular than what Democrats have ever offered.
“They are now defending unnecessary government spending,” Johnson said Tuesday. “They are opposed to tax cuts for working families. They support open borders and sanctuary cities.”
“Hospital Democrats have struggled to find messages that have not yet been rejected from Americans, but House Republicans continue to try to reach the country,” Johnson added.
House majority Whiptom Emmer told the DCNF that Democrats’ opposition to the president’s Department of Government Efficiency’s cost-cutting efforts are foolish in the long run.
“What are the Democrats? They are [Democrats] Protecting waste, fraud and abuse? ” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer asked Tuesday. “Are they fighting that?”
“They don’t have a message. They don’t have a leader. It’s a broken party with a broken brand.”
GOP lawmakers have also dismissed the attacks on inflation and the high cost of eggs by Democratic colleagues, despite the president being in office for more than a month. Democrats are opposed to a series of GOP-backed measures to address inflation by repealing some of the Biden administration’s anti-energy regulations.
Several House Republicans argued that the Trump administration’s actions to boost domestic energy production through executive orders and Congressional efforts to roll back some of former President Joe Biden’s regulations would ultimately slow inflation.
“Whenever we can unleash the energy resources we have here in this country, like President Trump is trying to do, we start looking at energy prices and gas prices go down,” North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Harris told DCNF.
“THe is the other side [is] I’d argue that it’s not going to affect them and that it will take a little while for them to be seen,” Virginia Republican Rep. Rob Whittman told DCNF. “Under the previous administration, these effects continued to grow in terms of inflation and did nothing that could halt the flow of inflation. We’re already looking at good indicators of energy prices.”
Andi Napier contributed to the report.
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