WASHINGTON — On Day 37 of the Democrat Shutdown, Speaker Johnson hosted a press conference alongside Republican Governance Group Vice Chairman Carlos Gimenez, members of the Republican Governance Group, and House GOP Leadership to discuss Democrats affordability myth and Republican efforts to clean up President Biden’s economic mess. Speaker Johnson also addressed Democrats continuing to keep the government shut down as the pain increases on millions of American families.
“President Trump and Republicans are delivering results for the American people that they can see and feel. To date, we’ve seen core inflation nearing its lowest level in four years. Gas prices have fallen to a four-year low, prices for everyday goods continue to decline. And blue-collar workers are seeing the largest increase in wage growth in nearly six decades,” Speaker Johnson said. “That’s the result of our policies. In Congress, House Republicans are working hand in hand with President Trump to advance his affordability agenda.”
Watch Speaker Johnson’s full remarks here.
On the economic failures of the Biden economic agenda and Republican efforts to make life more affordable:
It’s Republicans who are working every day to make life more affordable for working families. And it’s not a talking point for us. We are delivering. After four long years of skyrocketing prices under the Biden Administration, we had to take over. You don’t flip a switch and reverse that overnight. It takes a while to work those policies out of the system and to get the new ones in. President Trump and Republicans are delivering results for the American people that they can see and feel. To date, we’ve seen core inflation nearing its lowest level in four years. Gas prices have fallen to a four-year low, prices for everyday goods continue to decline, and blue-collar workers are seeing the largest increase in wage growth in nearly six decades. That’s the result of our policies in Congress. House Republicans are working hand in hand with President Trump to advance his affordability agenda. It is President Trump who ran on that. It’s President Trump who’s delivering on that.
And we are all partners in that new effort to make America great again. It begins with the economy. And we know that we’re laser focused on making a difference in the lives of hardworking American families. Here’s another demonstration. The Working Families Tax Cut. It is aptly named. It’s the largest tax cut in U.S. history for working and middle-class Americans. You got Bernie Sanders running around, “they are talking about the billionaires.” It’s not this, that’s the opposite of the truth. Look at the facts. That bill was written for lower- and middle-class earners, and they’re the ones that will feel the positive effects going into next year. We included in that, as you know, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, real tax relief for seniors. These are the kinds of things that people feel, and they see that we’re making good on our promises. We’ve made historic investments in American energy dominance to drive down the cost of gasoline and groceries. And we’re grounding every decision we make in common sense.
On Democrats masking socialism as a viable economic agenda:
I want to say this because a lot has been said about the common sense that we rely upon to keep a Republican operation. The Mamdani campaign. It is very easy to run and win as a socialist, right? All you do is promise everything to everyone for free. What a great message that is. Well, that really resonates for people who don’t study history. And while you’re making all those promises, you just hope you hope that they never realize the trap that you’re actually setting, the impossibility of fulfilling your fantastical claims and dreams, and the extreme danger and chaos that would result if you ever could. When you run as a socialist, you have to hope that they never understand that this will lead to the inevitable loss of their freedom, their opportunity, and their security, the loss of meritocracy and fairness in society, the loss of colorblindness, and the loss of emphasis on character and the morality, and the personal incentive. If you run as a socialist, you run on a big list of false claims, and you promise everything to everyone and you can’t deliver, and if you were ever able to deliver, it would be to the great detriment of the very people that you lured in to vote for you.
On Democrats refusing to drop their partisan demands and reopen the government:
They’ve created a mess for America with this pointless government shutdown. The Democrats will tell you that they’re feeling emboldened. They’re feeling emboldened because they had a few blue state election results. It does not change the fact that they have walked their party off a cliff with no parachute and no path forward.
The reason we’re stuck right now is because of one simple fact. If they vote to reopen the government, the Senate Democrats are afraid that the radicals in their party will say that they caved. They’re afraid of the retribution that will come from that. But if they keep the government shut down, they know very well, as we all do, that millions of Americans will continue to suffer as essential services remain unfunded and paychecks to federal workers continue to stay stalled. So, our question for Democrats this morning is this, which constituency matters more? The loud radicals in your party, or the hardworking American people? I can tell you which side the Republicans are on. 15 times we voted for the hardworking American people. And 15 times so far, the Democrats in Congress have voted for the radicals in their party. It is unconscionable to us that they’ve allowed it to go on this long. And at some point, all you can do is pray that that common sense prevails.
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