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House Republicans’ Campaign Arm Says GOP Has Wind At Its Back One Year Out From Midterms

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The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the House GOP’s campaign arm, is arguing that Republicans are well-positioned to maintain control of the lower chamber — one year out from Election Day 2026.

Though midterm elections tend to favor the party out of power, the NRCC is arguing that 2026 will be different, citing Democrats’ historic unpopularity and a more favorable political environment than Republicans had during President Donald Trump’s first term. The NRCC’s 60-second video, first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation, also previews attack lines painting Democrats as socialists, which are expected to dominate the airwaves in the lead-up to November 2026.

“Unhinged Democrats want to destroy America,” the video’s narrator says while accusing Democrats of supporting socialism, defunding the police and open borders. “In one year, we stop them.”

WATCH:  1 Year Out From Victory In 2026

Though Republicans hold a narrow majority in the House, Democrats could struggle to flip control of the lower chamber, according to the party’s slight lead in the generic ballot and rock-bottom favorability ratings.

Voters prefer Democrats over Republicans by 2 percentage points, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos survey of 2,725 respondents released on Sunday. Democrats held an 11-point advantage over Republicans at this point during the 2017-2018 election cycle, according to the same pollster.

Democrats went on to win 41 seats and retake control of the House of Representatives in November 2018.

Democrats similarly lead Republicans by 3.4 percentage points on RealClearPolitics’ polling average as of Sunday.

A recent Wall Street Journal poll found that 63% of Americans — an unprecedentedly high percentage — have an unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party. Just 33% of respondents hold a favorable view of Democrats.

Nearly seven in ten Americans view the Democratic Party as “out of touch,” a worse rating than respondents gave Republicans or Trump, according to the Washington Post survey. Voters’ opinions of Democrats notably showed no improvement since the poll was last conducted in April.

Republicans also perform relatively well against Democrats when voters are asked which party is better able to handle “the most important problem facing the U.S.” Voters prefer Democrats over Republicans by just two points, according to a Gallup poll released in October.

The 60-second spot also highlights Republicans’ fundraising advantage ahead of the midterms as top Democratic donors withhold cash following the party’s disastrous 2024 performance.

The NRCC outraised the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) by $720,000 between January and September. House Democrats led the NRCC in fundraising by roughly $9 million in 2017.

House Republicans’ fundraising lead this year marks the first time the NRCC has reported more cash than the DCCC during the first three quarters of an election cycle since 2015. Republicans notably won a trifecta the following year.

“House Republicans are lapping Democrats at every turn,” NRCC spokesman Mike Marinella said in a statement. “Voters across the country are fired up to build on this momentum and leave Democrats in the dust.”

The Republican National Committee (RNC) and Trump’s political operation also boast massive war chests that could be deployed to Republicans’ benefit over the following year.

The NRCC’s video deploys negative messaging in the video seeking to tie Democrats across the country to avowed socialist Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor. Mamdani is featured three times in the 60-second video.

House Republicans’ campaign arm rolled out a memo last week arguing that Mamdani will hurt vulnerable House Democrats as Republicans seek to make the 34 year-old socialist the “face of the Democratic Party.”

Republicans are also poised to benefit from mid-decade redistricting with the party already touting gains in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio.

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Adam Pack

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House Republicans Blunt ‘Blue Wave’ Hopes As Democrats Falter In Fundraising

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Nearly a year out from the midterms, House Republicans are touting a notable fundraising edge that could help the party maintain House control in 2026.

For the first time since 2015, the National Republican Congressional Committee, House Republicans’ campaign arm, has outraised its Democratic counterpart in the first three quarters of an election cycle. Though midterm elections tend to go poorly for the party in power, lackluster fundraising for Democrats and a relatively poor performance on the generic ballot show the party in a weaker position than in previous election cycles.

The NRCC has reported roughly $720,000 more in year-to-date fundraising than the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).

In stark contrast, the DCCC held nearly a $9 million advantage after the first three fundraising quarters of 2017. Democrats would go on to win 41 seats in the 2018 midterms and reclaim control of the House.

In the first three fundraising quarters of 2025, the NRCC reported a $20 million uptick in contributions compared to the same period in 2017. The House Republican campaign arm also has $7.5 million more in the bank at the end of September 2025 than it had in September 2017.

“The numbers don’t lie: House Republicans have the momentum, the message, and the money while Democrats are broke, divided, and out of gas,” NRCC spokesman Mike Marinella said in a statement.

“The NRCC is grasping at straws because poll after poll shows House Republicans are sinking in battleground districts,” DCCC spokesman Aidan Johnson said in a statement to the DCNF. “At the end of the day, voters are what matter, and it’s clear they’re done with Republicans’ broken promises and ready to send Democrats back to the majority next November.”

Though the DCCC reported slightly more in Q3 receipts than the NRCC’s $24 million haul, House Democrats’ campaign arm has reported less in year-to-date fundraising in 2025 compared to the last cycle in 2023. The DCCC had a $23 million edge over the NRCC at the end of September that year.

Republicans have also maintained a financial edge among their most vulnerable incumbents compared to their Democratic counterparts.

House Republicans on the NRCC’s Patriot list — the party’s most endangered incumbents — raised an average of $763,000 in the third fundraising quarter, which runs from July to September.

Three NRCC Patriots, Reps. Young Kim of California, Mike Lawler of New York, and Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin, reported fundraising hauls over $1 million in the third quarter.

Vulnerable Republican incumbents also maintained a significant cash-on-hand advantage over their Democratic counterparts through the end of September.

The DCCC’s Frontliners — considered to be the most vulnerable Democrats running for reelection — reported an average fundraising haul of $664,000 during the year’s third fundraising quarter, according to the NRCC’s analysis. Four Democrats, including Maine Rep. Jared Golden, reported more than $1 million in receipts during the third quarter.

Democrats have also not been able to keep up their polling performance on the generic ballot compared to 2017.

Democrats hold just a 2.6-point lead on the RealClearPolitics polling average as of Friday. On Oct. 24, 2017, Democrats led Republicans in the generic ballot by 10.3 percentage points.

Democrats’ weaker performance in the generic ballot comes as the party’s approval rating has fallen to historic lows. A July Wall Street Journal poll found a net favorability rating of -30  for Democrats — the worst figure for the party since the pollster began asking the question in 1990.

Matt Bennett, co-founder of liberal think tank Third Way, argued Thursday that the Democratic Party’s weak approval rating signals the party could remain in dismal shape through the midterms.

“We’re in terrible shape. Like, we just have to be very honest with ourselves — the Democratic Party is in really, really bad shape,” Bennett told Halperin.

“We have not begun to address those problems,” Bennett continued. “I do think we will not be able to fully address them until we have a leader, and that won’t be for like three years, when we nominate somebody for president.”

The Republican National Committee (RNC) also continues to trounce its Democratic rival in fundraising and cash on hand. The RNC has $86 million in the bank compared to the DNC’s $12 million at the end of September — a $74 million gap.

The DNC notably doled out $1.6 million in September alone — and has paid out more than $20 millon in total — to cover former Vice President Kamala Harris’s leftover campaign debt from her failed presidential run.

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Adam Pack

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ROOKE: Democrats’ Grip On Bargaining Power Dramatically Loosens As End Of Schumer Shutdown Looms

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Outwardly, Democrats claim their resolve to keep the government shutdown has never been stronger. However, cracks are beginning to form within the party, signaling that the shutdown might end soon.

When Democrats initially voted against the Republican House-passed clean continuing resolution (CR), voters in large margins blamed Republicans. This is likely due to a lack of knowledge about how many votes it takes to pass a CR after the Democrats invoked a filibuster on the bill. Without a filibuster motion, Senate Republicans needed a simple majority to pass the CR with 100 senators, so 51 votes. However, now that Democrats have invoked the filibuster, Senate Republicans need 60 votes (three-fifths of the 100 senators) to invoke cloture and end debate, after which a simple majority is still required for final passage.

Republicans hold a slim 53-seat majority in the Senate, enough to pass the CR without a filibuster, but not enough to pass the motion. As it stands, Republicans need seven Democrats to cross the aisle to invoke cloture and end the debate.

Democrats used this sneaky trick, with help from the media running cover, to push the blame onto Republicans and President Donald Trump. Their argument was simple: Republicans control both chambers of Congress plus the White House; therefore, the shutdown rests solely on their shoulders. For a while, their strategy has worked. Polling in early October showed a majority of Americans blamed Republicans for the shutdown. However, the longer the shutdown lasts, the worse it’s getting for Democrats.

While polling shows the Congressional Republicans are still shouldering the majority of the blame, approval ratings for Trump and both parties highlight the need for Democrats to quit stalling and pass the CR.

The most recent Quinnipiac University poll, conducted October 16-20, showed 40 percent of registered voters approved of Trump’s job as president, slightly up from Quinnipiac’s September polling, when 38 percent said the same.

When asked about Republicans, 35 percent gave them positive marks for their job performance, while 59 percent disapproved of Congressional Republicans. Compared to that, just 26 percent of registered voters approved of Congressional Democrats, while 67 percent told the survey they disapproved. Both Democrats and Republicans are up from Quinnipiac’s July 16 poll, where voters gave Democrats a 19 percent approval rating and Republicans a 33 percent approval rating.

Democrats are reportedly talking among themselves about the need to end the stalemate. Former Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine claimed Tuesday that Capitol Hill Democrats have texted him that the shutdown will end soon.

“Even texting with people on Capitol Hill here on the Democratic side, they know that this cannot go on too much longer,” Turrentine said on “The Morning Meeting” show. “There’s no talk of, ‘Yeah, we’ll do this through Thanksgiving.’”

“They’re like, ‘Yeah, we know this is going to have to end pretty soon.’ Again, the question is: who blinks?” he added. “And I do continue to think that by the end of next week, that middle part of the Democratic Party is going to start talking about, ‘How do we get out of this?’”

And while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries insist that their members will not be voting to pass the CR until Republicans fill the clean CR with their demands, the list of Democrats crossing the aisle to join Republicans ticked up Thursday.

Initially, just two Democratic senators, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, had joined Republicans to pass the CR. On Thursday, two more Democratic senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, both from Georgia, voted with Republicans to end the government shutdown. However, Republicans lost Cortez Masto on the last vote, with her rejoining the Democratic side to keep the government shutdown.

Republicans have 55 votes (53 Republican senators and 3 Democratic senators) in favor of opening the federal government. The party needs just five more votes to invoke cloture and end the debate, thus allowing a simple majority vote to end the shutdown.

And while Democrats continue to keep the government closed, regular Americans and essential federal workers are going without the assistance or pay they need. It seems for the time being, Democrats are fine using their pain as leverage in order to score political points.

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Mary Rooke

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ROOKE: Trump Scores Major Optics Win In Schumer Shutdown Battle

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President Donald Trump has found a way to fund federal programs, despite Senate Democrats — led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — keeping the government shut down.

On Monday, the Trump administration funded the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) during what Republicans have rightly dubbed the “Schumer Shutdown,” by redirecting revenue generated from Trump’s tariffs on imported goods. The White House announced the move as a temporary stopgap measure to prevent immediate disruptions to the nearly 7 million low-income pregnant women, new mothers, infants, and young children up to age five, who rely on the program for nutritional assistance, breastfeeding support, and other related services.

While Trump hasn’t been able to secure funding for essential federal employees, such as U.S. military members, the Secret Service, and air traffic controllers, they haven’t missed a paycheck yet. However, the deadline for that, Oct. 15, is coming up quickly. And, yes, most of these employees will receive back pay for any missed pay periods, but that doesn’t mean that they’ll be able to survive without some loan assistance.

Democrats have a decision to make about whether their radical left policies are worth continuing the government shutdown or if they’ll do the right thing and vote for the House-passed continuing resolution (CR). Recent polling indicates they are losing the narrative battle on this issue. Almost half (40 percent) of Democrats think their party’s positions are not worth shutting down the government, leaving essential workers and programs unfunded, according to CBS News. Only 28 percent agree with Senate Democrats in holding the funding hostage.

It begs the question of why Democrats believe it’s politically expedient to keep this fight going when a majority of their base wants them to capitulate to Republicans. Especially taking into account that Democrats essentially lost the 2024 election because elected members chose to embrace the radical left wing of their party, sending many independents who would have otherwise voted blue into the ballot box to support Republicans. How are Democrats expecting to bring these voters back if they are choosing to fund healthcare for illegal immigrants over paying U.S. military members and funding programs like WIC?

And while Republicans are fighting a similar internal struggle, with a majority of voters begging for the shutdown to end, the optics that Trump has been able to create by using tariff revenue to fund WIC is a masterclass in garnering political capital. Here, he addresses an issue (tariffs) that, while successful, hasn’t made a significant difference in solving kitchen-table issues and directly links it to being able to keep mothers and infants fed.

Trump has taken away a major weapon in the Democrats’ political arsenal by serving the most vulnerable in our country despite the Democrat led shutdown. If Republicans were smart, they’d bring these mothers on media hits with them to explain what this funding means to their families, similar to how Trump gave a mic to mothers who lost children to violent illegal immigrants. Then, to drive home the narrative, remind the American people that while our military members are faithfully serving overseas, their wives with small children are suffering due to Democrats refusing to fund the government.

Trump, more than any politician in our lifetime, understands the importance of controlling the optics in winning the narrative war. His move to fund WIC with tariff revenue killed two birds with one stone. It made Democrats politically vulnerable on a critical issue, while also protecting vulnerable mothers and their children.

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Mary Rooke

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EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Clyde Says ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ Prevents Dems From Fixing D.C. Crime Crisis

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Republican Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde said Friday that “Trump Derangement Syndrome” is “so strong” among Democrats that they will continue to resist President Donald Trump’s efforts to reduce violent crime in Washington, D.C., regardless of how it impacts their voters.

Clyde told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an exclusive interview that while Trump and Republicans want to “restore law and order” to the nation’s capital, the Democratic Party has been prioritizing “cheering on” those who commit crimes. The Georgia Republican added that Democrats are “supporting criminals” while the GOP and Trump are moving to help “law-abiding citizens.”

“It goes to show you how vastly different the two sides are,” Clyde told the DCNF. “Here you have President Trump and the Republicans wanting to restore law and order, wanting to make the city safe for the American people and for the residents of D.C. and you have the Democrats, who are there cheering on the criminals. And that is baffling to me, you know, I guess either Trump Derangement Syndrome is so strong for the Democrats that anything President Trump does, whether it helps them, you know, and helps their constituency or not, they’re going to oppose [it].”

“Here, his intent is to reduce violent crime, to make the city more safe. I mean, how many people were murdered on average in a week in the city every week in the city of Washington, D.C.? Anywhere from one to three? And we had a couple of weeks there where no one was murdered, so how many lies were actually saved during those two weeks?” Clyde continued. “You know, it’s pretty evident that the Democrats here are supporting the criminals and the Republicans and the president are supporting law-abiding citizens and so I think the country really needs to see that. And I think the country will side with Republicans and the president.”

Trump has been spearheading an effort to stamp out violent crime in Washington, D.C., including moving in August to deploy National Guard troops to the nation’s capital in an effort to help reduce violent crime. Many Democrats have opposed the president’s efforts to tackle crime in the capital city, with some even claiming that the move is a “political liability” for the Republican Party.

Despite Trump’s ongoing crime crackdown facing opposition from many Democrats, some recent polling has indicated that many voters approve of his approach to handling crime.

On Wednesday, Clyde introduced the Commonsense Law Enforcement and Accountability Now in D.C. (CLEAN D.C.) Act, which would repeal the D.C. City Council’s Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Emergency Amendment Act of 2022. Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz introduced companion legislation in the Senate on Wednesday.

The D.C. Council’s 2022 law notably prohibits the use of some neck restraints by law enforcement officers and requires additional procedures related to body-worn cameras.

In 2023, Clyde and Republican New York Andrew Rep. Garbarino introduced a joint resolution of disapproval, H.J.Res. 42, to block the D.C. Council’s crime law, which he had referred to as an “anti-police measure,” the Daily Caller first reported in March 2023. Then-Sen. JD Vance introduced the companion bill in the Senate in May 2023.

Although the legislation passed both the House of Representatives and Senate with bipartisan support in 2023, former President Joe Biden vetoed the resolution in May 2023.

“Well, back in 2020, the D.C. City Council with the riots across the land, et cetera. The D.C. City Council passed an ordinance that was basically an anti-police ordinance,” Clyde explained to the DCNF. “Actually, they passed two of them. One was the revised criminal code act of D.C., which eliminated all mandatory minimum sentences for violent crime. Other than, you know, everything second degree murder and down.”

“And that would have simply increased the crime that we are already seeing in the city, and it made no sense whatsoever,” he added. “It was a radically left-wing piece of legislation, and so we led a congressional review act to take it down and to eliminate it and it was successful.”

Clyde told the DCNF that the D.C. Council’s police law is “very much an anti-police act.”

“The D.C. Police Union was very much against it [the D.C. Council’s police law] because they knew that their officers would be hurt by it,” the congressman said. “So we led a Congressional Review Act to eliminate that as well back in 2023.”

Clyde noted that the 2023 bill “passed in a bipartisan way, with 14 Democrat votes on the House side and then … in the Senate as well, with eight Democrat Senators voting for it. Then it went to President  Biden’s desk and he vetoed it.”

“And the reason he [Biden] gave was that he wanted the D.C. City Council to be able to determine their own destiny for the city of Washington, D.C. Well, there’s a problem with that. In the Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 says that Congress has the exclusive legislative authority over the city of Washington, D.C.,” Clyde told the DCNF. “He [Biden] actually wants the city council to be in charge of a city that is supposed to be for all Americans.”

“The city of Washington, D.C. was designed through our Constitution, not to be just a city for the residents, but it was to be a city for all of America,” the lawmaker added.

Clyde went on to say that the main goal of his CLEAN D.C. Act is to keep Washington, D.C. “safe” and ensure that the city council will “respect the job” that local law enforcement officers do.

“I’m pretty excited, actually, and I like the fact that the prior co-sponsor of that in the Senate is now our vice president, you know? So it’s pretty cool,” Clyde said. “I believe he’s gonna see a bill that he sponsored in the Senate, come to be made law by the president under which he serves now.”

“I think that’s a pretty cool aspect of it, but the entire point of the bill is to make the city of Washington, D.C. more safe,” he added. “That’s it, and for the city council to respect the job that the law enforcement officer does because it is a very difficult job.”

“And with this act you know, still in place, it shows that they don’t,” Clyde said. “It shows that the city council does not have or will not back law enforcement as they should be.”

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ROOKE: Democrats Seem To Be Setting Themselves Up For More Chaos And Division

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President Donald Trump and Republicans could have a short-lived victory in passing their One Big Beautiful Bill. In just ten weeks, Republicans will face another funding battle to avoid a government shutdown. But, fortunately for them, Democrats are still undecided on how to respond.

There are open discussions about Democrats’ limited options when fighting against Republicans, Politico reported Monday. Rather than come up with a plan to find leverage to get what they want, Democrats, such as Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz, blame Republicans for following Trump’s lead and complain that Republicans are unwilling to include Democrats in the budget decision-making process.

“They’re just throwing stuff against the wall because they’re losing this fight,” Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy told Politico.

Democrats don’t seem to understand why they were defeated in November or how to gain back voter confidence in the new Trump era. While Democrats are “furious with the Trump administration and their Republican counterparts for undercutting government funding negotiations,” there is no “unified strategy” in place for the next major funding bill, set to be voted on before the government shutdown Oct. 1, according to Politico.

“To be blunt, I don’t think there’s one tactic or approach that is going to solve this from any individual Democrat,” Schatz told the outlet. “The Republicans have to decide whether they want to be totally lobotomized or not.”

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer attempted to work with Republicans on Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, but received significant pushback from his fellow party members.

“‘He’s done a great deal of damage to the party,’ said Ezra Levin, co-founder of the liberal group Indivisible, which has scheduled an emergency call with its New York chapter and other local leaders to “seriously consider if the current [Democratic] leadership is equipped to handle the moment we’re in,’” Politico reported.

This puts any Democrat looking to side with Republicans in a terrible position. If they cross the aisle, they risk the Schumer treatment, but if they don’t, they get blamed for shutting down the federal government and all that entails.

Of course, Republicans have a few stragglers who seem to sympathize with the Democratic Party’s position against slashing funding for abortion and DEI hiring practices for the federal government.

Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski were the lone two votes against Trump’s $9 billion rescissions package, which ended funding for some of the establishment’s favorite projects, including foreign aid, PBS, and NPR. As Appropriations Committee chair, Collins told her fellow members that countering Trump and his White House budget chief, Russ Vought, is “to continue to work in a bipartisan way.”

One faction of the Democratic Party aims to persuade more Republicans to join their side during these budget negotiations. The other seems to think the only way to stop the “Trump train” is to derail it using their favorite weapon: lawfare.

Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the House’s top-ranking Democrat appropriator, appears to strike a balance between both sides. She told reporters that Democrats need “to make sure that there are several others on the other side of the aisle who have the stomach and the strength and the spine to stand up” to Trump and Republicans. Still, she added that her party needs to boost the number of lawsuits against the Trump administration.

Democrats have one major card in their pocket to play before it is all over. With their slim majority in both chambers of Congress, Republicans need Democratic votes to pass their budget bill and avoid a government shutdown. However, despite that obvious strategy, Democrats have been reluctant to use it against Republicans.

I guess they realize that some money is better than no money.

Democrats are increasingly becoming a neutered party with no real message to win, except that “Trump is bad.” But outside of its hardcore base, the rest of American voters are looking for someone who will answer questions on how to fix the issues that directly affect them, like the economy and illegal immigration.

Democrats are so far unable to determine the path to victory in the new Trump era, let alone take any action to help Americans, leaving them in a difficult position as they enter what will be a challenging midterm battle against a more unified Republican opponent.

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Mary Rooke

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House Republicans Seek To Repeal More Biden Green Energy Regulations

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The House of Representatives will seek to overturn several Biden administration climate regulations limiting consumer choice later this week.

Speaker Mike Johnson is slated to bring two joint resolutions of disapproval to the House floor to repeal green energy standards for home appliances including refrigerators and freezers. The regulations were issued by the Department of Energy (DOE) during the final weeks of President Joe Biden’s term, allowing congressional Republicans to repeal the Biden regulations using the Congressional Review Act (CRA).

“Republicans are getting the country back on track,” GOP House Conference Chair Lisa McClain said at a leadership press conference Tuesday. “House Republicans are securing the border. We are protecting women, and we are passing legislation to lower costs for American families.”

Congress can rescind recently issued regulations from the prior administration by a simple majority vote under the CRA.

Republican Reps. Stephanie Bice of Oklahoma and Craig Goldman of Texas are the lead sponsors of the joint resolutions of disapproval — H.J. Res. 24 and H.J. Res. 75 — taking aim at the DOE green energy standards for walk-in coolers and freezers and commercial refrigerators and freezers.

“The Biden administration has done everything it can to regulate all aspects of our homes and businesses,” Bice told Fox News Digital on Jan. 16. “Walk-in coolers and freezers are used everywhere; from pharmacies, convenience stores, food processing facilities, food banks, restaurants, and more.”

“President Biden’s DOE consistently abused their authority to push a radical energy agenda on American consumers, attempting to implement conservation standards that are neither economically justifiable nor significantly more energy efficient for several household appliances like refrigerators and washing machines,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise wrote in a statement Sunday. “These overreaching rules take away consumer choice, burden American families, and force Americans to use expensive appliances that do not perform as well.”

The House also passed a joint resolution of disapproval repealing the Biden EPA’s tax on the methane emissions of oil and gas operators on Feb. 26. President Donald Trump signed the resolution overturning the methane tax on March 17.

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House Republicans Zero In On 26 ‘Vulnerable’ Democratic Incumbents

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Twenty-six House Democrats have been deemed “vulnerable” in the 2026 midterm elections by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), posing a prime opportunity for Republicans to expand their razor thin margin over Democrats in the House.

Five months after Republicans won a government trifecta in 2024, the NRCC and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) both released lists of at-risk Democratic seats. The lists are extremely similar, showing a growing consensus between parties that many Democrats might be in hot water in 2026.

The lists identify nine freshman lawmakers and 13 representing districts that President Donald Trump carried in the November election.

California hosts the most vulnerable Democrats, with Reps. Josh Harder, Adam Gray, George Whitesides, Derek Tran and Dave Min all viewed to be in danger of losing their seats, according to both the NRCC and the DCCC. Gray, Whitesides and Tran all unseated GOP incumbents in November.

New York also has freshman Democratic lawmakers who flipped Republican seats in 2024, including Reps. Tom Suozzi — who won his seat in a Trump district — Laura Gillen and Josh Riley, who are all predicted to be at risk of losing their positions, the lists say.

In Nevada, where Democrats spent more than 100 times as much as Republicans in ad space, Democratic Reps. Dina Titus, Steven Horsford and Susie Lee, who won in a Trump district, were also included on the NRCC and DCCC list. Trump notably won the swing state 50.6% to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 47.5%.

States with large hispanic populations are also epicenters for shaky Democrat-held seats due to Republican gains with Latino voters, according to the NRCC. Democratic Reps. Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico, Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez of Texas as well as Nellie Pou of New Jersey are all a part of the GOP’s expanding offensive map for 2026. Each of the representatives won their seats in red Trump districts. 

“House Republicans are in the majority and on offense,” said NRCC Chairman Richard Hudson in the committee’s press release. “Meanwhile, vulnerable House Democrats have been hard at work demonstrating they are painfully out of touch with hardworking Americans. Republicans are taking the fight straight to these House Democrats in their districts, and we will unseat them next fall.”

A recent poll by the Democratic group Navigator Research shows an alarming stance Independent voters have taken against Democrats, with just 27% believing Democratic leaders are focused on helping Americans, and only 37% believing party leaders have the right priorities. A majority of 56% think that Democrats are not looking out for working people, according to the poll.

The poll also found that 69% of Independent voters view the Democratic Party as “too focused on being politically correct,” while 51% of voters generally considered the party to be “elitist.”

Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, addressed these sentiments in a memo dated Feb. 18, in which he shared that Americans are increasingly perceiving the Democratic Party as “the party of elites.”

“For the first time in modern history, Americans now see the Republicans as the party of the working class and Democrats as the party of the elites,” Martin said in his memo. “I fundamentally believe that our party is grounded in the values, principles, and aspirations of the working class. As Chair of the DNC, that belief will guide my decisions and approach in the years ahead.”

Despite polling that suggests voters view the Democratic Party as of out-of-touch, Democratic Washington Rep. Suzan DelBene, the leader of the DCCC, projected optimism for Democrats in 2026, arguing in a statement that her party should shift its focus to issues such as the cost of living, and straying from the “hyper partisan rhetoric.”

“House Democrats overperformed across the country in 2024, powered by our battle-tested candidates who won despite the NRCC’s false bravado and these Frontliners will win again in the midterms,” DCCC spokesperson Viet Shelton told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The truth is House Republicans are running scared and refusing to hold town halls because they don’t want to get yelled at for their failure to lower prices, bungling the economy, and cutting Medicaid in order to pay for tax breaks for billionaires like Elon Musk.”

Democrats have recently struggled to establish a clear party leader as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both representing New York, were at odds over how to respond to the GOP-backed government funding bill. As multiple Democratic politicians ponder whether to run for president in 2028, Democrats appear to be staring down multiple vulnerable seats in the House, with no leader to push the party forward into midterms.

The NRCC did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include a comment provided by the DCCC. 

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House GOP Unveils ‘Clean’ Text To Fund Government While Democrats Threaten Shutdown

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House Republican leadership unveiled bill text Saturday to fund the government through September and avert a partial government shutdown set to occur after midnight on March 14.

The 99-page stopgap funding bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), will fund government operations for the remainder of the fiscal year. The government funding plan has widespread backing in the House Republican conference and is the product of close coordination with the Trump administration to ensure the government is spending less money, according to House GOP leadership staff.

House Democrats are expected to oppose the stopgap funding bill and have criticized GOP lawmakers’ refusal to insert language in the text hamstringing President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) authority to cut wasteful spending.

The bill text is “clean” and contains a minimum amount of extraneous language to fund the government through a full-year CR, according to House GOP leadership staff.

The CR reduces spending below fiscal year 2024 levels and does not include additional emergency funding, disaster declarations or policy riders that have tanked prior stopgap funding bills. The CR text includes an additional $6 billion for veterans healthcare and provides modest increases for defense spending and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) funding to patch an operating shortfall that started under the Biden administration.

Nondefense spending is notably reduced $13 billion below FY24 levels and the CR also includes a request to rescind $20 billion in IRS enforcement funding.

The CR will continue to fund government agencies Trump and his DOGE have moved to dismantle, including USAID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. However, House Republicans are intent on implementing DOGE cuts in the fiscal year 2026 appropriations process.

Senate Republicans, including Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, pushed Elon Musk to craft a rescission package that would allow Congress to rescind allocated funds by a simple majority vote in both chambers, during a Senate GOP luncheon with Musk Wednesday.

With a majority of House Democrats expected to oppose the CR, Speaker Mike Johnson will need near unanimity from GOP lawmakers to pass the CR given their 218-214 majority.

Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, who frequently votes against government spending bills and opposed the GOP budget resolution that narrowly passed the House on Feb. 25, announced he will vote “no” on a CR.

Trump met with GOP fiscal hawks at the White House on Wednesday to gauge their support for a CR. House Freedom Caucus chairman Andy Harris told the Daily Caller News Foundation that funding the government through a CR will allow House Republicans to prioritize passing the president’s first-year legislative agenda through the budget reconciliation process.

The stopgap government funding bill will need support from at least eight Senate Democrats to overcome the upper chamber’s filibuster given Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s pledge to oppose a CR. Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman has said he will never vote to shut down the government, effectively giving the GOP-backed plan at least one Democratic vote.

House Democratic leadership signaled they will oppose the CR — and the GOP’s efforts to keep the government open — in a “Dear Colleague” letter published Friday.

“House Democrats would enthusiastically support a bill that protects Social Security, Medicare, veterans health and Medicaid, but Republicans have chosen to put them on the chopping block to pay for billionaire tax cuts,” House Democratic leadership wrote. “We cannot back a measure that rips away life-sustaining healthcare and retirement benefits from everyday Americans as part of the Republican scheme to pay for massive tax cuts for their wealthy donors like Elon Musk. Medicaid is our redline.”

The CR text does not touch Medicaid or any mandatory spending program and provides $6 billion in additional funding for veterans’ healthcare, according to House GOP leadership staff.

House Republicans’ campaign arm slammed House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries for coming out against the CR Friday.

“House Democrats admitted they wanted a government shutdown, and now they’re following through,” National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Mike Marinella said. “They’re deliberately making our country less safe and less prosperous just to score political points. House Democrats will always put politics over people.”

Trump endorsed a CR approach to keep government operations running during a Truth Social post Wednesday.

“Government funding runs out next week, and Democrats are threatening to shut down the Government – But I am working with the GREAT House Republicans on a Continuing Resolution to fund the Government until September to give us some needed time to work on our Agenda,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on March 5, urging GOP lawmakers to support a CR. “Conservatives will love this Bill, because it sets us up to cut Taxes and Spending in Reconciliation, all while effectively FREEZING Spending this year, and allowing us to continue our work to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. VERY IMPORTANT – Let’s get this Bill done!”

House GOP leadership is expected to tee the bill up for a floor vote as early as Tuesday.

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America Is Seriously Unimpressed By Congressional Democrats, Poll Finds

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Americans’ approval of Democrats in Congress just plummeted to an all-time low while approval of congressional Republicans soared to an all-time high, according to a new poll.

Only 21% of voters approve of the way that congressional Democrats are handling their job, which is a record low, according to a Quinnipiac University poll published on Wednesday. Of those surveyed, 68% said they disapproved of how Democrats in Congress are handling their positions, and 11% did not offer an opinion.

Meanwhile, the survey found that a record number of Americans approve of how Republicans in Congress are handling their job. Of those surveyed, 40% approved of congressional Republicans’ handling of their jobs, while 52% disapproved and 8% did not give an opinion.

Still, 40% of Democrats said they approve of the way the congressional Democrats are handling their job, while 49% disapprove and 11% did not offer an opinion, according to the survey.

“It’s a sobering slap down of historic proportions for the Democrats in Congress,” Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy wrote in a Wednesday press release. “Their Republican counterparts take a victory lap as the Democrats try to get their footing.” 

President Donald Trump has recently notched higher approval ratings in the first several weeks of his second term than he did during his first term, with a CBS News poll released on Feb. 9 finding that 53% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing during his current presidency. Notably, a poll published toward the end of January found that overall approval ratings for the Democratic Party neared an all-time low.

The Democratic Party has faced various hurdles since Trump’s resounding victory in the 2024 presidential election, primarily struggling to formulate a plan to combat the new administration’s agenda, while Republicans have continued to expand their base. Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin acknowledged in a Tuesday memo that his party lost a share of working class voters and are now often viewed as the “party of elites.”

Quinnipiac University’s poll was conducted from Feb. 13 to 17 and surveyed 1,039 registered voters. The survey’s margin of error is three percentage points.

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As Trump Hands Out Pardons, Republicans Begin Planning How To Undo Years Of Government Abuse

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While President Trump issues pardons for individuals targeted by the Biden administration, Republicans are gearing up to tackle the past four years of government weaponization, multiple GOP representatives told the Daily Caller.

Trump signed an executive order Monday aimed at investigating the Biden administration’s weaponization of the intelligence community (IC) and Department of Justice (DOJ), and he pardoned or commuted the sentences of approximately 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants. He also pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road founder, who was sentenced to serve two life terms and another 40 years in prison.

Meanwhile, former President Joe Biden preemptively pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, Jan. 6 committee members, and Gen. Mark Milley. He also pardoned five family members just before Trump’s swearing-in.

“These pardons and everything that [has] taken place for family members, as well as Fauci and all the [Jan. 6] committee members, this is unbelievable,” North Carolina Rep. Mark Harris told the Caller, adding that Republicans could get an opportunity to subpoena those individuals.

Congress will publicly investigate and expose government weaponization, Republicans told the Caller.

“We’re going to do the investigative work in exposing and uncovering this in a very, very public way, and then the [DOJ] — which is now going to be politically unbiased and fair in actually upholding the rule of law — can start taking the information that we uncover and then pushing forward with prosecutions,” Texas Rep. Brandon Gill said.

It’s not unusual for Congress to submit aggressive letters and publishing reports on weaponization, but Republicans now have the opportunity to take decisive action.

“There is a time for strongly worded letters,” Kansas Rep. Derek Schmidt told the Caller. “There is a time for reports, but I think this is a time for an act of a substantive law that locks in change, protects liberty and ensures that we’re making a difference, not just for the next few years, but for the next few generations.”

The Biden administration targeted Jan. 6 defendants, a pro-Trump memesmith, Trump himself, Christians and pro-life activists. Conservatives have called on the Trump administration to pardon those targeted by the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

“I think it’s criminal what we have allowed to have happen to people, even to this day, I’m hopeful that perhaps President Trump will pardon these folks that are being held in prison over just being active in the pro-life movement,” Rep. Harris said on Tuesday.

President Trump pardoned 23 pro-life activists prosecuted by the Biden administration on Thursday, just one day before the annual March for Life.

Biden’s DOJ was responsible for over a quarter of all prosecutions in the law’s 30 year history, the Caller first reported. Biden’s FBI raided the homes of pro-life Christians Paul Vaughn and Mark Houck.

Biden’s DOJ used a Reconstruction-era law to target its political opponents, specifically the conspiracy against rights charge, which was implemented to protect the rights of recently enfranchised black voters. It employed this law to enhance the sentences of pro-life activists charged under the FACE Act.

“[The FACE Act] is being used as a bludgeon to take innocent people. How you can take someone who is praying on their knees outside of an abortion clinic and have him spend years in jail because of that,” Texas Rep. Brian Babin told the Caller.

“This is a weaponization of this law — misinterpretation, misuse of it, if you will — and it is another example of weaponization [of the] federal government by the wrong people.”

While Republicans seemed optimistic about the next four years, an entrenched bureaucracy may impede their agenda. Congress needs to be more aggressive in using its “power of the purse,” Rep. Gill told the Caller.

“I think that we’ve got to be a lot more, as a Congress, be a lot more aggressive about using the power of the purse,” he said. He pointed to the FBI raiding the homes of pro-life activists and reportedly targeting parents protesting school board meetings.

“I think that until we start playing hardball with them the way they’re playing with us, none of this is going to end,” Rep. Gill added.

Republicans are less trusting of the FBI than Democrats, according to a 2022 poll by the APM Research Lab. The poll also showed that the proportion of Americans who believe FBI agents are fair declined by eight percentage points from 2018 to 2022.

“There are plenty of serious problems that make our citizens’ lives far, far more dangerous, that could use far more resources,” Rep. Schmidt said. “And so I hope we will push federal law enforcement authorities to refocus on those basics and move away from the more political types of work that have been done over the last four years.”

A suspected terrorist who pledged allegiance to ISIS in the summer of 2024 later went on to commit a terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, apparently escaping the bureau’s radar. The New Orleans Field Office was also a staunch supporter of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, according to its social media posts advertising Diversity Agent Recruiting events.

In addition to the IC being perceived as serving a political agenda, many of its surveillance tools have come under greater scrutiny from Republicans.

The FBI surveilled parents protesting school board meetings, former agents previously told the Caller. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was used to spy on a staffer during Trump’s first campaign. FISA Section 702, which allows for the warrantless surveillance of American citizens, has received pushback from many conservatives.

“Quite frankly, in some of my briefings by some of these bureaucracies, I would look at the FBI — there might be a number of agencies across the table from me giving me my briefing — and I looked at the FBI and said, you abused this process,” Rep. Babin told the Caller. “It needs to be changed, needs to be reformed.”

The intelligence agencies have a variety of tools to conduct surveillance, and Rep. Gill argued that libertarian critics of the surveillance state have been “vindicated.”

“Everything they said about the Patriot Act turned out to be true,” he said. “Everything they said about giving virtually unchecked powers to the administrative state for national security purposes has been true, everything they said about that being weaponized against American citizens.”

The Republicans who spoke to the Caller were overall optimistic about the Trump administration and Congress’s abilities to undo the government weaponization of the past four years. However, some acknowledged it will take time before significant changes are enacted.

“I think this is something Trump will begin and get a lot done in four years, but this is probably going to be a long term process,” Rep. Gill said. “You know, we didn’t get here overnight. We’ve had problems with the FBI and CIA for decades.”

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Mike Johnson’s Broken Promises On CR May Have Just Cost Him The Speakership

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is facing serious blowback from those in his own party for trying to push through a continuing resolution filled with unnecessary spending. Sources on Capitol Hill, including both lawmakers and their staff, told the Caller Johnson may have cost himself the Speaker’s job with the poorly-received gambit right before Christmas.

“Mike Johnson spent a lot of time fundraising off of selfies with President Trump, and then betrayed him right before the inauguration. He’ll have to answer for that in January,” a senior House Republican staffer told the Caller.

The 1,574-page spending measure will receive votes from both Democrats and Republicans, but Johnson broke several promises in the process of putting forth the bill. Johnson said in September that he has “no intention of going back” to the “terrible tradition” of a Christmas omnibus.

A senior house aide told the Caller that House Republicans have lost trust in Johnson and that it will be hard to recover from.

“It’s not a competence or leadership question for some folks now. It’s a trust question. That’s gonna be tough to come back from,” the senior house aide said.

The speaker says by passing the CR, “we’re clearing the decks and we are setting up for Trump to come in roaring back with the America First agenda.” However, it is being opposed by Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, who will be running the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), as well as President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance themselves.

Johnson also promised that the spending bill would be written by committee leaders in an open process and members would have at least 72 hours to read it before voting, but in reality, the new CR was negotiated behind closed doors by leadership.

“On every important issue this majority has faced, the Speaker has shown himself to be inapt and outsmarted by Biden and Schumer and is too easily willing to surrender,” one House Republican lawmaker told the Caller.

Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie was the first House Republican to say he would oppose Johnson’s bid for Speaker, saying Wednesday: “I’ll vote for somebody else.” When asked who he would vote for instead he said: “I’ve got a few in mind. I’m not going to say yet.”

“There’s a cognitive disconnect among my colleagues who hated Speaker Johnson’s CR, but still plan to vote for Speaker Johnson in 2 weeks. That 1557 page bill was a product of the swamp that uniparty Johnson was happy to facilitate. He couldn’t understand why we didn’t lap it up,” Massie tweeted Thursday morning.

No other House Republicans have said they plan to challenge Johnson for the Speakership. Notably, Republicans’ razor-thin House majority in the next Congress would give even a small anti-Johnson group significant leverage over who becomes the next Speaker.

Johnson’s office declined to comment for this piece.

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ROOKE: House Speaker Gives Tone Deaf Speech Defending The Swamp’s Last Funding Stunt Before Trump Comes Home

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House Speaker Mike Johnson is promoting a pork-filled spending resolution that would give Congress more power and waste billions of taxpayer dollars, making this the coal in Americans’ Christmas stockings.

Johnson promised members (and voters) under his leadership that massive spending bills would be an open process led by committee chairs. He also said that members would have at least 72 hours to read the bill before they were expected to vote and that the passing of any Christmas omnibus spending packages would be a thing of the past.

However, in the past 24 hours, he has broken almost all of these promises by introducing the Christmas Continuing Resolution (CR), which would keep the federal government funded until March 2025. Worst of all, Johnson is shamelessly trying to sell the American people on the idea that passing the CR is the conservative way to handle the funding issue.

Johnson tried to make his case Tuesday night in an interview with Newsmax.

“This was the conservative play call. We don’t normally like what’s called a Continuing Resolution, a CR. But in this case, it makes sense because if we push it into the first quarter of next year, then we have a Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald J. Trump back in the White House, we’ll be able to have more say about funding decisions in 2025,” Johnson said.

“Now, that would have been an easier thing to do, but then we had circumstances outside of our control. We had these emergencies that are required. We had, as you know, a record hurricane season. We had Helene and Milton, and they just did massive destruction across our red states, frankly,” Johnson continued. “And then we had farmers who are in jeopardy of permanently going under. They’ve had three loss years in a row because of Bidenomics and inflation and other circumstances outside of their control. So when you coble those two things together, there’s a desperate need for that aid, and that’s what adds another 100+ billion dollars to the bill. That’s where everyone is uncomfortable with it.”

The problem that Johnson expects the American people to be either too stupid or too lazy to understand is that Congress has known about this funding deadline since the last time they passed a CR funding bill in late September, around the same time hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated the country. There is no reason why Congress couldn’t have gone through the standard process earlier in the last quarter to avoid the rushed vote right before members wanted to go home for Christmas.

Most Americans sympathize with the victims of the hurricanes and Biden’s economic policies. However, adding aid for these emergencies isn’t really the issue here. It’s the decision to drop an almost 2,000-page spending bill that includes way more than aid to desperate Americans right before Christmas. We can see that this bill is supposed to allow policies Americans wouldn’t support to go through and designed to drop when it did in order to avoid a public debate.

In his defense of the omnibus, Johnson did not mention that Congress would receive a massive salary increase or that a carve-out would give members the legal freedom to avoid subpoenas of their electronic conversations. Nor did he tell Americans that the Christmas omnibus would fund the Global Engagement Center (GEC) for another nine years. The GEC is part of the federal government’s Censorship Industrial Complex, which worked to pressure social media companies to censor Americans.

Johnson continues to signal that he and other Republicans believe business in Washington will continue as usual despite the American voter mandate handed down Nov. 5. We are emaciated, exhausted, and ready to fight the federal government over the abusive relationship it’s formed with us. We are tired of the status quo. We want fighters willing to end the swampy business Washington elites conduct. This Christmas Omnibus is a red flag.

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Inside Trump’s Meeting With House Republicans

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Former President Donald Trump gathered Thursday morning with House Republicans at the Capitol Hill Club to talk politics and strategy just five months out from the election, according to lawmakers in the room who spoke with the Caller.

Trump was greeted by House Republicans singing him Happy Birthday one day before he turns 78 years old, and was gifted the game ball from the Republicans’ 31-11 victory in Wednesday’s Congressional Baseball Game before he spoke.

Trump joked that the performance of the Democrats’ outfield in the game was a bigger help to Republicans than anything they could have done themselves.

During Trump’s remarks, he mentioned The Washington Post’s readership being down 50 percent, and was met by cheers.

Trump then mentioned that he plans on doing 100 tele town halls for House candidates, and called the tele town halls a “secret weapon,” according to a source familiar in the room.

At one point during the discussion, Trump took a shot at political operative Jeff Roe, saying Roe does surgery on candidate’s wallets. Roe backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ primary bid against Trump and was widely criticized for racking up big dollars without delivering positive results.

The former president also made an interesting remark about former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Trump claimed that Pelosi’s daughter told him the two would’ve made a good pair had they not been involved in politics, but Trump joked that he thinks Pelosi is much older than he is. The California Democrat is 84.

Trump then took a jab at those who voted to impeach him, saying all but one had been removed from office. The source told the Caller that Trump was forgetting about Washington Rep. Dan Newhouse.

The 2024 frontrunner also told House Republicans that tariffs will be a top priority.

Trump weighed in on the changes to the Republican National Committee (RNC), saying Michael Whatley and Lara Trump have totally transformed the RNC, and noted that he chose Whatley because of his performance as NCGOP Chair.

Since the changes, the RNC and the Trump campaign have seen their best fundraising success of the cycle so far, shattering their own donation website following Trump’s conviction in Manhattan.

After his remarks, Trump took questions from the lawmakers, many of whom just thanked and praised him.Trump will now meet with Senate Republicans at the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC).

(This is a developing story. More information will be added as it becomes available.)

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One Of Trump-World’s Favorite Lawyers Hatched Playbook With House GOP On Ending Biden Lawfare Against Trump

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One of former President Donald Trump’s biggest legal defenders and advisers, Mike Davis, held a meeting last Wednesday with a select group of House Republicans to discuss ways to fight back against President Joe Biden’s lawfare against Trump, the Daily Caller has learned.

Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project, met with lawmakers from the House Conservative Opportunity Society, which is chaired by Republican South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman. The group does not share how many members it has or when it holds meetings, which are off the record with no staff or media present.

Davis was asked to speak to the group about Trump’s ongoing legal battles and ways House Republicans can help the former President from Congress. Davis told the Caller that there were over a dozen members present for the meeting, which took place the morning of May 1 at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington D.C.

“I want to maintain the privacy of the discussions the members of COS had with Mr. Davis, but I can say it was a productive meeting,” Norman told the Caller. “On the matter of why House Republicans are rallying around President Trump, I see it as a very simple choice. This race is between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, that’s an easy decision for me and many of my colleagues. It’s a decision between how we’ve been living under the Biden admin the past 3 years versus the freedoms we had under the Trump admin.”

“Between the inflated prices we’ve seen recently versus four years ago. Between crime-riddled cities and illegal immigrants running rampant versus a secure border and safer cities. Republicans can see the stark difference between what these two administrations provided for the American people and are choosing to side with President Trump,” he added.

Davis would not divulge which members attended the meeting, but said that the group is eager to fight for Trump.

“There were quite a few House Republicans and I briefed them in detail about the Biden Democrats’ lawfare and election interference. [I] equipped them with information and motivation to fight back. I called them the ‘tip of the spear in the House’ for the counter offensive in Biden’s lawfare against Trump,” Davis said.

Davis added there were more than a dozen Republican House members present.

Republican Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett confirmed to the Caller he attended the meeting, and said Davis did a great job explaining how one-sided the cases are against Trump.

“Mike is a smart guy with solid conservative values. When he spoke to us about these lawfare issues, he laid out a very clear and concise argument for why the justice system is against President Trump and how the cards are stacked against him,” Burchett told the Caller.

Illinois Republican Rep. Mary Miller was also in the room, the Caller confirmed. She claimed the Biden DOJ is silencing political opponents that Davis is key to fighting back.

“Mike Davis’s passion to fight and to hold corrupt left-wing judges accountable for their unconstitutional actions comes at a critical time when Joe Biden’s Department of Justice is attempting to silence Biden’s political opponents,” Miller said. “The Left is weaponizing the judicial system, and Mike is fighting to preserve the freedoms our Constitutional Republic guarantees the American taxpayer.”

Arizona Republican Rep. Andy Biggs also confirmed he was in the meeting, saying he is grateful for Norman and the Conservative Opportunity Society for hosting Davis and slamming the prosecution of Trump.

“The hyperpolitical lawfare being waged against President Trump stands opposed to everything that America was founded on. House Republicans should not remain silent in the face of such blatant partisan prosecution. We ought to use the tools the Constitution has given us to check the Biden regime’s attack on President Trump and conservatives across the country. I am thankful to Chairman Norman and the Conservative Opportunity Society for hosting Mr. Davis to discuss such a crucial topic,” Biggs told the Caller.

Davis went on to say that the main goal was to help pressure House leadership to do everything in their power to defend Trump.

“Their goal was to help steel the spines of the House Republican leadership, the House judiciary leadership, and the rest of the House Republican Conference.”

“There is a leadership void in the House on this Biden lawfare and election interference against Trump and that leadership void was supposed to be filled by the the House Judiciary Committee, including the weaponization subcommittee, and so far it hasn’t been,” Davis said. “The point of this meeting with the Conservative Opportunity Society was to get these most bold and fearless House members, to get the House Judiciary Committee, including the weaponization Committee, to step up and do their jobs,” Davis added.

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