House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters that President Donald Trump has done more for the American people in 48 hours than former President Joe Biden did in four years.
Speaking during the House Republican Leadership press conference Wednesday morning, Johnson said that Senate and House Republicans are going to work together to advance Trump's America first agenda.
"We will deliver," Johnson said. "Now, the President's wasted no time either, as you saw, and has been mentioned, the executive orders. Just in the past two days, just a couple of highlights, some were mentioned."
"Listen to this list: he ended catch and release, he shut down the ridiculous CBP One app, he began restoring American energy dominance already, restored merit-based hiring for the federal government and eliminated DEI initiatives, ended the radical gender ideology madness, and revoked the security clearances of the former intelligence officials who signed the bogus and discredited letter about Hunter Biden's laptop," he said.
"President Trump truly has, as Whip [Tom] Emmer said, done more in the last 48 hours for the American people than Joe Biden did in four years," Johnson added. "And this is just the beginning of much more to come."
The speaker also highlighted the Fix Our Forests Act and the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act, two bills he said House Republicans aim to pass this week.
The Fix Our Forests Act is "so important," Johnson said, because "we see what happened in California," with the devastating wildfires, and "the lack of leadership there."
"Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom, having mismanaged virtually every aspect of that in preparation, they did not prepare their state or the city or the county for what was to come," Johnson said. "There was a 117-million-gallon reservoir right outside Pacific Palisades that was left empty for over a year. They did not manage the forest as they were supposed to, and they let forest debris pile up near homes in at-risk areas. All of this was known.
"They assumed the risk because they advanced their radical political agenda, and now people are paying a heavy price for that," he continued. "We think that needs to be taken into account going forward, but the bipartisan Fix our Forest Act will do what the governor of California would not do, and that is restore the health of our forests and make communities more resilient to wildfires."
Pivoting to what he called "a matter of common sense and a matter of just basic human dignity, morality and ethics," Johnson said the House will be voting on the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act by the end of the week.
"If a child is born alive, you're in an attempted abortion, and is crying and struggling to breathe on the operating table, should the doctor try to keep that child alive, or should the doctor deny that crying newborn child medical care and let the child die?" Johnson asked.
"Who could answer that question with the latter response?" he said. "We're going to give them a chance. It's basic humanity. 210 Democrats voted against that bill in the 118th Congress, and we're going to pose that question to them again to see if they'll do the right thing. I certainly hope so."
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