For Immediate Release
May 6, 2025
Contact: Taylor Haulsee
WASHINGTON — This morning, at the weekly House Republican Leadership press conference, Speaker Johnson addressed House Republicans’ efforts to codify President Trump’s America First agenda into law, Congressional Democrats refusal to work in any meaningful way for their constituents, and Republicans common sense priorities for budget reconciliation.
Watch the Speaker’s full remarks here.
On codifying the Trump agenda:
We’ve been working around the clock to codify so much of what President Trump has been doing. I think there’s 143 executive orders that have been issued thus far, and we’re working around the clock to make sure that we put these into statutory law so that it can’t be reversed and erased by an upcoming administration. For some reason, the media acts like this effort is somehow a negative thing. It’s not at all. Anybody who says that just fundamentally misunderstands the relationship between Congressional Republicans and President Trump and his administration. We all ran on the same America first agenda: secure the border, cut taxes for working families, revive American energy production, strengthen our standing on the world stage and bring back common sense.
We already have the formula for prosperity and security, and that’s the thing about President Trump: he’s not an unknown entity, as we’ve all recounted many times. He’s done it once; he’ll do it again. We plan to work together to enshrine the agenda in the law and make sure we have a roaring American economy and stability and security, prosperity, and strength again,. From day one, President Trump has used his executive authority to reverse the devastating policies of the last administration. There was a lot of that to be done, but as the previous administration made it painfully clear, executive orders can be undone and overwritten, and that’s why we have to move it through the legislative process. And we are.
On Congressional Democrats refusal to work with Republicans:
House and Senate Republicans are utilizing the budget reconciliation process primarily because leader Schumer in the Senate, Leader Jeffries in the House and their Democrat colleagues, refused to engage in anything, no matter how meritorious, even to improve the lives of their constituents if it means that President Trump will somehow be credited with a win. I mean, it’s really sad, but that’s the fact. They’d rather put on performative stunts and host these activist town halls, and all this other nonsense then just work with us to bring costs down and make communities safer for their constituents. Just think about how the American people feel about these issues.
When Democrats had a trifecta in 2021, they used the budget reconciliation process, but you know what they did? They used it to “stimulate” the economy. What did that mean? Well, trillions in new spending and tax hikes and the green New Deal giveaways. We can’t do that. It’s not sustainable, so we’re going to reverse it. And guess what happened when they did that? We had runaway inflation, making the cost of living for everyday Americans unbearable. Contrast that with what we’re doing, what Republicans are working on right now, what we are delivering through the committees and soon through the whole house: lower taxes, decreased regulation, safer streets, keeping more of your money that you earn in your own pocket. We’ll take that to the people every single day, and they’ll be for us. And as the house works to finish budget reconciliation over the next few weeks, we’ll continue to shine a light on the Do- Nothing Democrats who would rather oppose President Trump’s popular agenda than work for the needs of their own constituents.
On the commonsense provisions included in budget reconciliation:
Consider this, secure the border, right? Securing the border is an 80/20 issue in America. Deporting illegal aliens? More than 50% of American people believe that every single illegal alien should be deported… But despite those numbers, the Democrats are taking trips to Central America to bring back violent illegal aliens back to the country. It’s madness. Strengthening Medicaid for Americans who need it by eliminating things like fraud, waste and abuse, which is a huge problem in the program, including removing illegal aliens. If you add all that together, 66% of the American people think that that’s a very important idea. We need to improve, shore up and strengthen the program so that it can be there for the people who desperately need and deserve it. And Democrats, what do they do? Lying about what we’re doing with Medicaid, so much so that we’ve gotten them to pull down their advertising because they were literally breaking the law. We sent cease and desist letters and they had to take it down.
Cutting taxes for working families and small businesses, what American doesn’t want to pay fewer taxes to the government? There may be a few, but I haven’t found them, especially on matters like the overtime, tipped wages and Social Security. Big promises for the President, and we’re going to deliver that. But it turns out congressional Democrats apparently want Americans to pay more. They’re adamantly against all those things I just named. They’re against keeping taxes low. And when they oppose the reconciliation bill, when they oppose the solution to this, to extend the tax cuts, they are actually advocating for the largest tax increase in US history, end of sentence.
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