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| But it is one of many factors that members consider, and members will arrive at their own decisions and make a pick for the ranking member position. | ||
| That's our expectation. | ||
| The vice chair and I are tasked with presiding over the election. | ||
| So our job is to just make sure that it's done in a fair way and to make sure that the members hear directly from the candidates. | ||
| I just want to say that just because someone's a senior member, it doesn't mean they have less energy. | ||
| One point of fact, Speaker Pelosi had and continues to have more energy than most human beings that I know. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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| House Republican leaders held a press conference on Capitol Hill condemning the attack in Boulder, Colorado, where a man attempted to kill individuals with Molotov cocktails. | ||
| House Speaker Mike Johnson also answered questions about the party's recently passed tax and spending cuts legislation. | ||
| This is about a half an hour. | ||
| That's our mantra, by the way. | ||
| That's where we're coming from. | ||
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Hogan's all in there. | |
| I got the air turned down so we all stay awake. | ||
| Well, good morning, everybody. | ||
| And let me begin with this first. | ||
| My thoughts and prayers go out and are with the victims of the anti-Semitic terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado recently. | ||
| The Jewish people should absolutely not have to face this violence anywhere, let alone in the United States of America. | ||
| Recently, two young people were shot and killed in our nation's capital in an anti-Semitic attack. | ||
| And if that wasn't enough, Holocaust survivors are now actually being burned alive. | ||
| This is the outcome of everyone not condemning anti-Semitism everywhere, especially on our college campuses, which have become a breeding ground for vile hatred. | ||
| And failing to condemn these acts are the same as enabling these acts. | ||
| And the lack of consequences for those failing to condemn these acts has resulted in Jewish people dying. | ||
| Let me be clear on that. | ||
| Things have got to change. | ||
| Otherwise, I hate to say it, buckle up because that's not the last attack that we've seen. | ||
| And we haven't seen the last attack on college campuses, synagogues, or communities coming to a place in your community. | ||
| This type of anti-Semitic behavior needs to be dealt with and it needs to be dealt with swiftly. | ||
| And everyone, I'm going to repeat, needs to condemn this. | ||
| And what makes the attack in Boulder even worse is that it was committed by an illegal alien. | ||
| Wow, that's a shocker. | ||
| Who could have predicted that? | ||
| And I hate to say it, he might not be the only one plotting an attack. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because under Biden, he let in tens of millions of illegal aliens. | ||
| So the risk is even greater. | ||
| Folks, this is a serious situation that we need to begin to deal with and deal with it swiftly. | ||
| And that's why the Senate must pass the one big, beautiful bill. | ||
| Congress must give our law enforcement officers the resource they need to detain and deport violent illegal criminals. | ||
| Given this shocking news, Democrats spent Memorial Day in El Salvador honoring and remembering MS-13 instead of here in our country honoring Americans who actually paid the ultimate sacrifice. | ||
| I mean, honestly, what's next? | ||
| Is a Democrat going to fly to Boulder to visit the illegal who burned Jews alive? | ||
| Is that what's next for the Democratic Party? | ||
| The contrast between Republicans and Democrats couldn't be more clear. | ||
| Democrats stand with illegals. | ||
| House Republicans stand with the American people. | ||
| Democrats voted to raise taxes on hardworking Americans when not one Democrat voted for the Big Beautiful Bill. | ||
| House Republicans, on the other hand, voted to avoid the largest tax increase in history. | ||
| Democrats want your small businesses to close and for you to lose your jobs. | ||
| House Republicans want Main Street to thrive and survive and flourish. | ||
| When we passed the One Big Beautiful Act, we kept our promises. | ||
| Despite constant doubt, now we urge our colleagues in the Senate to pass this transformational legislation. | ||
| The American people can't wait any longer. | ||
| This is a critical piece of history that we must get done. | ||
| Now I want to turn it over to Rep. Mark Mesmer of Indiana, a member of the House Education and Workforce Committee, Armed Services, and Agriculture Committee. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Thank you to House leadership for inviting me here to speak on the incredible success of the One Big Beautiful Bill. | |
| House Republicans are committed to delivering the golden age President Trump promised the American people when he ran for office. | ||
| The reality is, because of the great investigatory work of Doge and the Trump administration have made public and our agriculture committee work in the House, there is actually far more fraud, waste, and abuse present in federal spending than anyone imagined. | ||
| What has been uncovered is appalling. | ||
| The One Big Beautiful Bill controls the growth of federal spending on SNAP and restores integrity to the bipartisan work requirements passed decades ago, protecting the SNAP program for those who truly need it. | ||
| For the first time ever, the bill holds states accountable for inaccurate benefit payments. | ||
| I believe our work marks a new era of efficiency and fairness by encourage modest state contributions. | ||
| I'm proud to say that the language passed on the House floor also includes historic investments in conservation to support the best stewards of our land, the American farmer. | ||
| The bill refuses to neglect rural America. | ||
| With incredible improvements to the farm safety net, our farmers will be supported as they bring healthy, safe, and affordable food to the kitchen tables of Americans. | ||
| What we passed in the House is both a lifeline to those who need it most and a promise to the American farmer that we cannot and will not take lightly the importance of their hard-earned contributions to our nation. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thanks, Mark. | ||
| On Sunday afternoon, we witnessed yet another horrific anti-Semitic terrorist attack on U.S. soil. | ||
| While a peaceful group marched to call for the release of innocent hostages held by Hamas, an evil man launched a well-thought-out, deliberate attack intending to kill, quote, all Zionist people, end quote. | ||
| As he threw Molotov cocktails into the crowd, he shouted, Free Palestine. | ||
| As you've already heard, we need to be clear about this. | ||
| The violence we are seeing against the Jewish community here in America is a direct result of the left's refusal to condemn and combat anti-Semitism. | ||
| Sadly, this evil ideology has not only been tolerated by the left, it has been encouraged and enabled. | ||
| When rampant anti-Semitic behavior exploded on college campuses in the wake of October 7th, Joe Biden and the Democrats refused to hold these universities accountable. | ||
| Even sitting Democrat members of Congress regurgitated talking points from Hamas terrorists and normalized riots that do the same. | ||
| It's unacceptable. | ||
| To add insult to injury, the Colorado terrorist was, again, an illegal alien who was allowed in the United States by the Biden administration. | ||
| For four years, Joe Biden and the Democrats' failed open border policies welcomed unknown members of potential terrorists into our nation, setting the stage for scenarios like the one that we saw this week. | ||
| By letting millions of unvetted illegal aliens into our communities, the Biden administration left a national security mess. | ||
| And the Trump administration is racing to clean it up. | ||
| Border security and deportation efforts are urgent. | ||
| Lives are at stake. | ||
| Our one big beautiful bill strengthens these efforts by providing additional funding for more deportations, more border patrol agents, and more border wall. | ||
| We're going to continue to work with the Senate to get this done for the American people. | ||
| And as we've said every week since we started this march, failure is not an option. | ||
| The safety of our communities depends on it. | ||
| With that, I turn it over to our leader. | ||
| Thank you, Whip. | ||
| We all mourn those who were the victims of these attacks here in Washington, D.C., as well as in Boulder, Colorado. | ||
| And it just unfortunately highlights this continued anti-Semitism we've seen around the country. | ||
| Last week I met with Jewish leaders, and they're understandably concerned about this trend that keeps going on. | ||
| It's been going on for years. | ||
| You know, you go back to October 7th, and ever since then, it's been a growing equivocation between almost trying to equivocate what the people who attacked and murdered Jews in Israel and Americans and kept hostages with those in Gaza who we've seen what Gaza's become and all of those who want to clean up Gaza. | ||
| President Trump's made it clear. | ||
| Prime Minister Netanyahu's made it clear. | ||
| They want to turn Gaza back into a place where you don't have to fear for your life that it's going to be a terrorist hotbed. | ||
| And yet there are people that want to sympathize with the very terrorists who want to continue to not only carry out evil against Israelis, but against people here in America and all across the globe. | ||
| It's got to stop. | ||
| We're going to continue to bring legislation on the House floor to address it. | ||
| Now, I do want to talk about the one big, beautiful bill. | ||
| This House came together in a way that maybe surprised some people here in Washington. | ||
| We've defied the odds every step of the way from the first vote on the budget to the second vote on the budget to final passage. | ||
| But there's a reason for that. | ||
| And, you know, as the Whip just said, we've said all along, failure is not an option. | ||
| I've been asked by some in the press, what's Plan B when there were reports that the bill was going to fail? | ||
| And we were very clear, and it wasn't just a talking point. | ||
| We said there is no plan B. | ||
| The American economy, the voters of this country demanded that Congress deliver on the promises that President Trump made to get this country turned around. | ||
| And what we do when this bill delivers on so many different fronts to help grow America's economy, to create jobs, to put more money in the pockets of hardworking families. | ||
| That's been the focus of this bill from the very beginning. | ||
| And I think there are some people that start reading too many Congressional Budget Office reports and ignore the lessons of history. | ||
| And there's an old saying that if you ignore the lessons of history, you're doomed to repeat it. | ||
| But I think it's important to go down that road of history and go back to 2017. | ||
| You don't need to go back that far to see how wrong the CBO has been when it comes time to make prognostications on economic growth. | ||
| They've always been wrong and they've always ignored what tax cuts will do to grow the American economy. | ||
| In 2017, when we started this process, when President Trump came in and said, we're going to make America competitive again, we were at a 35% corporate rate and we were losing jobs all across the globe. | ||
| Every month you'd see a great American company move to a foreign country and they would take the jobs along with them. | ||
| Millions of jobs were leaving America. | ||
| They were called inversions. | ||
| You don't maybe know that term as well anymore because we haven't had an inversion since we passed TCJA in 2017. | ||
| But if you go back, look at what CBO said about that bill. | ||
| They said it would cost a decrease in revenue to the tune of $1.5 trillion. | ||
| $1.5 trillion. | ||
| Now you go look at the numbers, they were off by more than $1.5 trillion because what they left out of that report, just like they're leaving it out again, CBO's making the same mistakes, they ignore economic growth. | ||
| What we saw in 2017 when we cut taxes is that businesses started growing. | ||
| They started giving pay raises to their workers. | ||
| They hired millions more people. | ||
| Unemployment went virtually to zero. | ||
| Inflation dropped dramatically. | ||
| People had more money in their pockets because wages were up. | ||
| And all of those things produced more money for the American Treasury. | ||
| It all happened, and yet CBO failed to recognize that. | ||
| And they're making the same mistake again. | ||
| And anybody who repeats CBO's analysis is also making those same mistakes. | ||
| If you ignore the growth that will come with keeping tax rates low, with helping businesses invest more in their workers, giving pay raises, putting more money in the pockets of waiters and waitresses, overtime workers not having to pay taxes on overtime, bonus depreciation, immediate expensing, all the things that will generate economic growth and ultimately put more money in the pockets of workers and send more money up to the federal treasury here in Washington. | ||
| CBO missed all of that in 2017 and they're missing it again this time. | ||
| That's the only way they come to a conclusion that it would increase the deficit. | ||
| This bill will actually reduce the deficit if you recognize the historical economic growth that has always been there. | ||
| To say you're going to get 1.8% growth at a minimum, we think you can get 2.5% to 4% growth. | ||
| Scott Bessant, the Treasury Secretary, says over 4% economic growth. | ||
| So I get that, you know, we've got to play by the rules of the referee, but the referee's been wrong. | ||
| You know, we've got a referee that tries to sack our quarterback a lot. | ||
| And yet we still manage to play by those rules and deliver for the American people. | ||
| Because when this bill is passed and signed into law, hopefully by July 4th, when the Senate does their work, you're going to see economic growth in this country like we haven't seen in generations, meaning more pay in the pockets of workers, and you're going to see more Treasury money coming in because of the growth in the American economy. | ||
| It's happened before and it will happen again. | ||
| We just need to keep moving forward. | ||
| And the Senate's got the bill now, and I'm confident they're going to move it on and ultimately back to us to the President's desk. | ||
| And finally, you saw yesterday the White House sent the rescissions package. | ||
| This is the first, maybe, of many. | ||
| We are now putting that in bill format. | ||
| We'll file that bill hopefully by tomorrow and then bring it up to the floor quickly and get rid of more waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. | ||
| This will deal with, obviously, the abuses we all saw at USAID, NPR, and public broadcasting. | ||
| So those are the things that are going to be in this rescissions package. | ||
| We're going to continue working with President Trump to root out waste, fraud, and abuse and get the American economy turning around again. | ||
| And the person who's leading that charge is our speaker, Mike Johnson. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Rarely do I get to raise the podium, so let me do this for a second. | ||
| Great to see you all this morning. | ||
| Look, our leadership team had very much looked forward to this press conference, our weekly press conference with you today, because we wanted to celebrate this historic passage of our big, beautiful bill four days before Memorial Day, our self-imposed deadline. | ||
| And that's a big achievement, and I'll address it. | ||
| But obviously, our attention has been diverted and our mood very much dampened by these atrocities that continue against our Jewish friends and neighbors. | ||
| It's really something that's been discussed already this morning, but this attack over the weekend was actually the second time in three weeks that our country's witnessed these horrific acts of anti-Semitic terror here on American soil. | ||
| And it was just, of course, a few miles down the road, two Israeli embassy staffers, a young couple who had planned to wed soon, were senselessly gunned down on the street. |