Republican leaders in Congress met with the president Donald Trump On Tuesday, the president made some public statements after the White House summit.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota and House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana are expected to speak to the press about what was discussed in their first meeting with the new president since he began his second term.
Trump clashed with some Republicans in Congress late last year as the federal government faced a potential shutdown that was ultimately narrowly averted.
Other Republican leaders attending Tuesday's meeting included House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana, House Majority Leader Tom Emmer of Minnesota, and House GOP Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain of Michigan.
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Republican leaders in Congress met with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. (Fox News Digital Team/Trump-Vance Transition Team)
On the Senate side, Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming and Conference Chairs Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia were also part of the discussion.
While Trump signed a slew of executive orders on his first day in office, he also signaled his eagerness to work with Republicans in Congress to pass key parts of his agenda through the Legislature.
During a press conference following his meeting with Republicans, Trump mentioned the meeting as well as his new executive orders Renaming Mount Denali And the Gulf of Mexico.
He said that President William McKinley deserved to have his name restored to the highest summit in North America, saying sarcastically that his fellow Republican was known as the “King of Tariffs” and presided over one of the strongest economies in US history.
Trump claimed that the United States was the “richest country” in the world between 1870 and 1913. McKinley had just begun his second term when he was assassinated in Buffalo, New York, in 1901.
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When asked about pardoning those convicted on January 6, Trump agreed that it is never right to assault a police officer, but noted that the press and the left have not expressed the same concern for those involved in the weeks-long post-mortem fires in Portland, Oregon, and Minneapolis. For George Floyd.
Trump also talked about stripping Secret Service protection from his former adviser John Bolton, calling the Baltimore native a “warmonger” and “a very stupid person.”
Later, Trump announced in his press conference that he would visit North Carolina and California in the coming days.
Trump implicitly referenced areas of the Smoky Mountains devastated by Hurricane Helen, claiming that Democrats had abandoned a deportation mandate in the wake of the historic storm that affected a large swath of the United States and especially the area from Damascus, Virginia, to Augusta, Georgia. .
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Trump seemed to suggest that as well Democrats and the failure of democratic politics In the lead-up to the Los Angeles wildfires, it left the party “politically dead” in California.
“What they did was destroy (Los Angeles),” he said, speaking of sprinklers without water and faucets without water or proper pressure.
He said California's leaders either “have a death wish (or) they're stupid, or there's something else going on.”
When he travels to California, he may meet in particular with one of his old political rivals, Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who is now the state's junior senator.
