Republicans are concerned they have few accomplishments to run on in 2024, and according to NBC News, it’s coming from the horse’s mouth. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., set the tone at the start of the new year during a candid interview with far-right network Newsmax. “We have nothing. In my opinion, we have nothing to go out there and campaign on,” Biggs said. “It’s embarrassing.” Anchor Anchor Chris Salcedo responded in agreement, saying that “the Republican Party in the Congress majority has zero accomplishments.”
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Referring to the far-right sect who oppose any sort of bipartisan collaboration, former acting Speaker Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., said he thinks Johnson should “should seek wider counsel than the loudest people who line up in the queue.”
“If we keep extending the pain and creating more suffering, we will pay the price at the ballot box. But if we can get on with governance, and get the best policy wins we can, then you can open-field this thing,” McHenry said. “But at this point, we are sucking wind because we can’t get past the main object in the road. Once we get past that main object, then it’s the president’s performance on the economy, it’s the president’s performance on national security. We need to get the hell out of the way, cut the best deals we can get. And then get on with the political year.”
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Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D. noted the sparse list of achievements since the GOP assumed the House majority, calling it “damn thin.”
“It would be really nice if they could hang their hat on some accomplishment,” said Cramer, who also warned of negative consequences if House Republicans bungle an immigration deal. “It would be ironic if the thing that prevented them from being able to hang their hat on a good immigration or border security policy would be the election because it could be the only thing that might save some of them,” he said. “The whole ‘burden of governing’ thing that I was hopeful would weigh heavily enough on them to get serious hasn’t worked so far.”
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Though he faced criticism from fellow Republicans for his remarks, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told NBC that he maintains his views “because nothing’s been delivered yet — no final product.”
“By the way, it does not matter who’s sitting in the speaker’s seat or who’s got the majority,” Roy said from the House floor last week. “We keep doing the same stupid stuff.”
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