{"id":1397239,"date":"2022-03-23T20:59:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T00:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397239"},"modified":"2022-03-23T21:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T01:00:05","slug":"exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-house-gop-finalizing-commitment-to-america-agenda-plans-rollout-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-house-gop-finalizing-commitment-to-america-agenda-plans-rollout-later-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Kevin McCarthy: House GOP Finalizing \u2018Commitment to America\u2019 Agenda, Plans Rollout Later this Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-kevin-mccarthy-house-gop-finalizing-commitment-to-america-agenda-plans-rollout-later-this-year%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397239&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida \u2014 House Republicans are finalizing their \u201cCommitment to America\u201d agenda here at the House GOP retreat, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy said to expect, timeline-wise, a formal announcement of the agenda later in the summer towards the end of July\u2013so members can tell their constituents about it during the August recess\u2013and another formal push in September ahead of the November midterm elections.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe started this a year ago getting the members into all the different task forces,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cThey\u2019ve been meeting, we\u2019ve been listening, and some things we\u2019ve already rolled out like the Parents Bill of Rights, Border Security, but what we\u2019ve done even further is not just the members on the task forces but each week we\u2019ve been home we\u2019ve been having a second conference call where we invite the task force members in where each task force has been presenting. This retreat is based on that and we\u2019re going to narrow down and finalize and get our members together and united because you got to pass what you\u2019re going to run on. We\u2019ll narrow down what those policies we\u2019re going to have and then I believe we\u2019ll focus a little more and then we\u2019ll roll it out to the American public I\u2019m looking kind of maybe towards the end of July where the members can go out and talk about it to the public in August and then do a formal one in September. This next couple days is really critical in narrowing down some of the things we\u2019re going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cCommitment to America\u201d agenda, very similar to the \u201cContract with America\u201d that Newt Gingrich introduced in 1994 before Republicans swept into power that year, is something McCarthy outlined in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/10\/exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-lays-out-gop-commitment-to-america-a-clear-contrast-between-republicans-democrats-for-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a long-form On The Hill video exclusive<\/a> with Breitbart News taped late last year and released in early January. Now, Republicans are close to finishing it here at the House GOP retreat\u2014and a press conference with GOP leaders saw the Republicans previewing the plan, expected to be a bold contrast with the complete Democrat control of Washington, DC, the past year plus, this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know what a Democrat agenda is\u2014it\u2019s weakness around the world,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cIt\u2019s making us not energy independent. It\u2019s an insecure border. It\u2019s crime in our streets. It\u2019s inflation, runaway spending. Ours is almost the complete opposite. The first thing we got to do is go after the rising prices. We do that in a number of different ways. The first is you stop the waste inside government. You don\u2019t have government pay people more to stay home than to go to work. Then you go into and you make America energy independent\u2014not just independent but dominant. If you lower the price of gas it saves a lot of people. But what people don\u2019t understand is crude goes into a lot of things\u2014it goes into the product right here, it goes into your clothing, it goes into ink, it goes into everything else. Also the transportation cost\u2014it costs you food, and everything else. So how do we change the supply chain to actually work and get energy independent? We\u2019ve got to go after crime. These DAs who are not upholding the law\u2014we can take our cop grants that go to all these cities and say you can have the cop grant as long as your DA upholds the law and doesn\u2019t pick and choose. Instead of defunding police, we will actually add funding to police\u2014and take our streets back. You\u2019ve got to secure the border and you\u2019ve got to do that right away in the process as well because a couple things happen. It\u2019s not just what\u2019s happening with these millions of people coming here illegally. Fentanyl is now the number one cause of death for people aged between 18 and 45 in America. That\u2019s because our border is not secure. You\u2019ve got people on the terrorist watch list, they\u2019re coming into America. There was just a story I saw last night, I haven\u2019t been able to verify it, but they had somebody from South America come into America illegally and just ransack the Beverly Hills stores and robbing houses because they see crime and the vulnerability there. We have got to make sure parents have input in their kids\u2019 education. What is going on in education and what they\u2019re trying to capture, we\u2019ve got to stop that process with the CRT and others.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>McCarthy added, too, that not only do Republicans plan to draw a contrast with Democrats on policy but on process as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we\u2019ve got a lot of work to do, but to make that happen you\u2019ve got to reform Congress itself,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cNo longer are members going to be proxy voting. They\u2019ve got to show up to vote. You\u2019ve got to go to committee and work. No longer is the Speaker going to have all the power. We\u2019re going to open the House up to the people\u2019s house. We\u2019re going to have people not pick and choose who can be in the press to hold them accountable\u2014you\u2019re going to be in the press to hold us accountable. That\u2019s going to be the fundamental difference\u2014you have better policy, you have accountability through the committees to hold this administration accountable. This administration has not been held accountable\u2014that\u2019s why they have been making a lot of these problems and mistakes. You\u2019ll see us passing good legislation out of the House and pressuring the Senate to pass it on to the president\u2019s desk. You\u2019ll never have to worry about the filibuster again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since that taping of the video special, more and more Democrats have announced their plans to abandon their majority and instead retire. \u201cI think we\u2019ll get as high as 35 to 40,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, what McCarthy described back then as a \u201cperfect storm\u201d for Republicans\u2014low presidential approval ratings for Democrat President Joe Biden, high numbers for the GOP on the generic ballot in polling, redistricting, and a referendum setup where the other party has historically slim majorities in both chambers as well as the White House\u2014is only getting stronger. Biden\u2019s approval rating keeps sinking\u2014it hit as low as 34 percent in poll this week\u2014and Republicans continue to lead the generic ballot across the board. In addition, McCarthy noted, Republicans are making gains with key minority groups to include an outright lead with Hispanic voters and significant improvement with black voters according to some polling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Hispanic population in America now favors Republicans by nine points,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cAfrican Americans, we\u2019ve improved\u2014we\u2019re not in the majority there but what you\u2019re seeing is that America is rejecting the Democratic policies and what they\u2019re doing to America. They want to see a change. That\u2019s why it\u2019s critical. This is where I disagree with McConnell with so much\u2014you\u2019ve got to lay out to America what you\u2019re for and what you will do with a majority. That\u2019s why we will lay out to America what we\u2019re for in the campaign and we will have a contrast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, McCarthy added that Republicans can make gains with women who feel betrayed by Democrats for the left\u2019s decision to cavort with transgenderism especially in women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfair,\u201d McCarthy said when asked about Lia Thomas, a transgendered biological male, competing in the women\u2019s NCAA swimming competition. McCarthy said Republicans have used a tactic called a \u201cmotion to recommit,\u201d where they force votes on measures from the minority citing specifically a proposal from Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) to push back on the radicalism by protecting women\u2019s opportunities and blocking the ability of transgendered individuals from keeping women off a team. McCarthy also cited women athletes who say this is unfair treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a number of ways we combat that\u2014we\u2019re not just now combatting it, we\u2019ve had a number of pieces where we have through [motions to recommit] and what not from members like Steube,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cWe saw this problem on the forefront coming to it but now the American public is being informed about it. But you see a lot of women athletes standing up and saying time and again that this is unfair. They\u2019ve watched it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida \u2014 House Republicans are finalizing their \u201cCommitment to America\u201d agenda here at the House GOP retreat, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News in an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}