Speaker Johnson Welcomes Congressional Democrats’ Newfound Interest in the Rule of Law
WASHINGTON — This morning, at the weekly House Republican Leadership press conference, Speaker Johnson addressed Congressional Democrats’ newfound interest in the rule of law, breaking the Biden Administration’s bureaucratic handcuffs, and new polling which found the American people overwhelmingly believe President Trump is keeping the promises he has made to the American people.
On Congressional Democrats’ newfound interest in the rule of law:
The Democratic Party is in a completely different place right now. There’s no identified leader of the party. They don’t have a clear vision. They seem rudderless. In hopes of finding themselves, they’ve latched on to this new shiny object called the rule of law. We’d like to welcome them to the concept. It would be admirable if they hadn’t spent the last four years with their heads buried in the sand while Biden literally trampled over the rule of law with no objection. In fact, many Democrats cheered that lawlessness, like when the Biden administration unconstitutionally forced the middle class to pay the student loans of doctors and lawyers, when they illegally mandated that private companies implement vaccine requirements, when they radically rewrote Title IX to undermine women’s rights. Those things were actually illegal, and the Democratic Party cheered it. They didn’t oppose it at all.
President Trump, by contrast, is taking legitimate executive action to root out waste, fraud and abuse in all these federal programs. That’s what the American people demand and deserve. That’s what they voted for. They voted for a real analysis and a real change, a transformational kind of change in the way the federal government works, and the only people who take issue with it are these same congressional Democrats who never before had any issue with unelected staff or even bureaucrats running the White House for the last four years.
On the Midnight Rules Relief Act:
I just want to highlight one more thing that the House is going to vote on, the Midnight Rules Relief Act. You’ve heard about this, but this legislation will amend the Congressional Review Act to allow Congress to overturn multiple regulations issued in the final months of a presidential administration with just one single vote. That’s important for efficiency purposes, and because of the facts that we’re dealing with right now.
In the waning months of the Biden administration, over 1400 unnecessary, harmful last-minute rules were imposed, and those are things that hurt small business owners and hardworking Americans and families. This is the type of legislation that will move this week that receives little fanfare outside these halls, but it has the real potential to make a substantial impact on the lives of everyday Americans.
On President Trump keeping his campaign promises to the American people:
We were we were delighted to host President Trump in the Superdome on Sunday. The first time a sitting president has attended a Super Bowl, as you saw when they put his image up on the jumbotron, the place went crazy. There was a lot of excitement, enthusiasm about President Trump and about, I would say, the House Republicans in Congress. We were cheered on Bourbon Street.
There’s something happening out there, because people feel this great sense of excitement, this anticipation, this energy, because President Trump is delivering on his promises. He’s delivering on the agenda, and they know that we are as well. And so, a lot of the things that are being done through the executive branch are going to be codified in the house, and we’re working methodically to make sure all that is possible. There was a new CBS poll that came out that said 7 in 10 Americans believe President Trump is doing what he said he would do, and that’s promises made, promises kept. You’re going to see that continuing theme and the theme of restoring common sense around here.