The Republican leaders of the United States House of Representatives expressed confidence this Wednesday that they will maintain their control and advanced their priorities for the first 100 days of the political course: taxes, energy and the southern border.
The Speaker of the Lower House, Mike Johnson, and the Majority Leader, Steve Scalise, sent letters to their Republican colleagues in which they ask for support to continue in their positions and thus develop a conservative agenda that complies with the “mandate” of the voters.
“In the first 100 days, House Republicans will advance a bold, conservative agenda that will put the economy back on track, set low tax rates, and secure our southern border,” explains Scalise in his document, leaked to the media. .
Scalise outlines those three priorities: one, “fixing” the tax cuts that Trump promoted in his first term; another, send more resources to the border with Mexico to build a wall, buy detection technologies and strengthen border patrol.
The third point is to “free up energy” by mandating the sale of leases, allowing more energy exploration and production on federal lands like the ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska), and repealing the Energy Reduction Act policies. Democrat inflation.
Johnson agrees with those priorities and adds, among others, “prioritizing the needs of Americans over foreigners”, “radically reducing regulations”, expanding school choice and “ending the ‘woke’ agenda.”
Scalise, like the number one Republican in Washington, highlights that Republican control of both chambers represents “a historic opportunity to use the budget reconciliation process” to advance measures “with simple majorities in both chambers.”
In yesterday’s elections, the Republicans managed to retain control of the Senate after four years in opposition by taking at least three seats from the Democrats and, although there are still no definitive results, it also seems that they will revalidate their majority in the Lower House.
In the Lower House, the Republicans are a few seats short of the 218 seats that would give them a majority: according to the most conservative count, that of the AP, they already have 205 seats compared to the Democrats’ 190. EFE
