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Ryan Walker: How To Get Trump's Agenda Through Congress
A sweeping election victory on Nov. 5 means Republicans will have control of the House, Senate, and the White House come January. Capturing this trifecta, however, was just the beginning of conservatives’ fight to save the country.
Now comes the much harder task: conservatives actually have to govern. Republicans, animated by President-elect Donald Trump’s winning agenda, will have to work at record pace to get the changes the American people want through the slow-turning gears of Washington, D.C.
To preview the incoming Congress, I spoke to Ryan Walker, executive vice president of Heritage Action for America, on this week’s episode of “The Signal Sitdown.” Walker has nearly a decade of experience working for the House of Representatives under his belt and is now tasked with ensuring conservative grassroots priorities are attended to on Capitol Hill.
While Republicans have a strong majority in the Senate, it is nowhere near the 60 votes needed to overcome the Senate filibuster. Nevertheless, there are some mechanisms that exist for the Senate to circumvent the filibuster and pass their agenda with a simple majority vote in the upper chamber. And Republicans are planning to put one of these mechanisms, budget reconciliation, to use to pass large portions of Trump’s agenda.
In this upcoming budget reconciliation process, Walker told me that “the American people have demanded that [Congress] go big.”
“[The American people] don't just want a bill dealing with tax reform,” Walker continued. “They want substantial change to the way the government functions. They want the border closed. They want inflation to come down. They want crime rates to drop. They want folks to start acting in a way that is not weaponizing government agencies against the people. They want spying on American citizens to stop. They want their votes to count and illegals to not be allowed to vote in federal elections or even state and local elections.”
To no surprise, the American people actually want the policies they voted for in November to be enacted, Walker suggested. “Regardless of which strategy,” Republicans in Congress go with, Walker said, “it needs to be a big and massive piece of policy change.”
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Justin Shubow: Here's How Trump Can Make America Beautiful Again
Shortly after President-elect Donald Trump announced his 2024 presidential bid, the former and now future president released some preliminary policy objectives. Among them, Trump promised that, if put back in office, his administration would undertake efforts to get rid of ugly public buildings and beautify American cities. This week on The Signal Sitdown, my guest was someone who can, and already has in the previous Trump administration, help the next president deliver on his promise to make America beautiful again.
Justin Shubow is the president of the National Civic Art Society, a nonprofit that promotes the revitalization of classical architecture and art in public works. Shubow previously served on Trump’s U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. In a recent op-ed for the Wall Street Journal by Intercollegiate Studies Institute President Johnny Burtka, Shubow was floated as someone who could play a big role in Trump’s beautification agenda.
While some conservatives wish the federal government would mostly get out of the architecture business, Shubow told me the construction of public buildings is not just inevitable but worthy of more conservative resources. “Great architecture can inspire people to be better people, to be patriots, to be better citizens,” Shubow said. When conservatives aren’t involved in this process, public architecture and art “can be subversive and be demoralizing.”
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Kelley Vlahos: How Close Are We to World War III?
This week on “The Signal Sitdown,” Bradley discusses the latest from Ukraine and Syria with Kelley Vlahos, editorial director at Responsible Statecraft.
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Rep.-Elect Riley Moore: How Conservatives Can Deliver for the Working Class
President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election marked the first time in 20 years that a Republican presidential candidate won the popular vote in addition to the electoral vote.
The commanding fashion of Trump’s historic comeback was further proof that the political realignment Trump started nearly a decade ago—transforming the Republican Party into the party of the working class—is being further cemented.
And it’s no surprise, then, that victors of down-ballot elections are increasingly representing the coalition that now makes up the Republican base. Rep.-elect Riley Moore, R-W.Va., is a perfect example, and he joined me on this week’s episode of “The Signal Sitdown.”
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Lora Ries: Here’s How to Deport Over 10 Million People
Under President Joe Biden’s failed leadership, the United States has been in the throes of a four-year-long illegal immigrant crisis, during which an estimated more than 10 million people have entered the country.
With immigration among the top issues in the 2024 campaign cycle, the American people are sending President-elect Donald Trump, who campaigned on a platform of mass deportations, back to Washington.
The question now becomes how does the government actually go forward with deporting more than 10 million people, many of whom are deep in the interior of the country. Bradley Devlin sat down with Lora Ries, director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation, to discuss what a second Trump administration’s immigration agenda could look like on this week's episode of “The Signal Sitdown.”
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Your government is out of control. It’s doing things it has no business doing.
It spends way too much money. It gets involved in way too many wars. It not only tells you what you can and can’t say—it actively censors you.
And the things your government should do, it can’t, or won’t, do at all.
It can’t keep your streets clean of crime and filth. It can’t keep your neighborhoods safe enough for kids to play outside. It can’t even prevent your country from being invaded by millions of illegal migrants.
Why is that?
Because your leaders no longer represent you. They represent themselves and their friends.
On each episode of "The Signal Sitdown," politics editor Bradley Devlin exposes how the sausage really gets made in Washington, D.C. with the help of guests who have experience on the inside.
"The Signal Sitdown" takes you inside the biggest battles in Washington, D.C., as they happen. We’ll analyze the policymaking process from an unabashedly and unapologetically conservative perspective and together reclaim government from the self-serving elites.
Fingers will be pointed.
Names will be named.
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