By Jennifer Shutt | AZ Mirror
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republican leaders said Tuesday voters have given them a “mandate” to enact as much conservative policy as possible once they gain unified control of the federal government in January, but declined to provide details about exactly what policies they’d seek to enact.
“The American people want us to implement and deliver that America first agenda,” said Speaker Mike Johnson. “And we have to do that while we have that energy and that excitement, beginning on the very first day of the Congress in the new year.”
The Louisiana Republican said the election results showed that Americans want lawmakers to focus their attention on “secure borders” and preventing “terrorists and criminals from entering the country.”
“They want and deserve low costs for groceries and gasoline,” Johnson said. “They want us to project strength on the world stage again and not the weakness that we have projected for the last four years. They want an end to the wokeness and the radical gender ideology and a return to common sense in our children’s classrooms and corporate boardrooms and government agencies. We’re going to ensure all that’s true.”
