{"id":2530527,"date":"2026-01-06T12:51:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-airs-grievances-at-house-republican-retreat\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:55:13","slug":"trump-airs-grievances-at-house-republican-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-airs-grievances-at-house-republican-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump airs grievances at House Republican retreat"},"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\">14<\/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%2Ftrump-airs-grievances-at-house-republican-retreat%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=2530527&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--><p>President Trump urged House Republicans at a party retreat to make healthcare reform the centerpiece of thier 2026 midterm message, arguing the GOP should aim for better, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-era-economist-uchicago-professor-says-childcare-costs-may-rise-120-under-bidens-spending-agenda\/\" title=\"... Era Economist, UChicago Professor Says Childcare Costs May Rise 120% Under Biden\u2019s Spending Agenda\">lower-cost care<\/a> and even be &#8220;flexible on Hyde&#8221; &#8211; a remark that drew immediate criticism from some conservatives. He framed Republicans as having had a prosperous year in 2025 despite a slim House majority, called for unity, and encouraged work on priorities like favored-nations drug-pricing, border security, and other policy items to win voters&#8217; support.Trump also highlighted recent actions in Venezuela,criticized Democrats&#8217; responses,and touched on topics like trans-athletes,urban crime,tariffs,and the five-year mark of the Jan. 6 anniversary. He praised the late Rep. Doug LaMalfa, joked about members&#8217; desire for attention, and touted his administration&#8217;s drug-pricing policies as a potential campaign-winning issue.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump airs grievances and preaches healthcare midterm focus at House GOP retreat: &lsquo;You&rsquo;ve got to be flexible on Hyde&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2453810\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4407567\/trump-venezuela-intervention-2028-debate-rubio-vance\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> urged House Republicans to focus on healthcare reform as a winning issue heading into the 2026 midterm elections, noting the party will likely need to be &ldquo;flexible&rdquo; in its staunch anti-abortion stance.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the newly named Trump-Kennedy Center on Tuesday, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4379341\/trump-more-progressive-biden-economically-one-year\/\">Trump<\/a> opened by claiming that, in 2025, Republicans were the &ldquo;most successful House Republican majority in decades,&rdquo; despite their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnells-betrayal-hurts-the-nation-goodwin\/\" title=\"Mitch McConnell\u2019s betrayal hurts the nation\">slim majority<\/a> in the chamber, before questioning why the parties in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/too-late-were-fed-democrats-panic-over-2022-as-surveys-show-their-entire-brand-a-wreck\/\" title=\"\u2018Too Late; We\u2019re F***ed\u2019: Democrats Panic Over 2022 As Surveys Show Their \u2018Entire Brand\u2019 A \u2018Wreck\u2019\">power typically lose<\/a> in midterm elections.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4408013\/trump-commemorates-tiktok-wins-2025\/\">Trump commemorates TikTok &#8216;wins&#8217; from 2025<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4407919\/machado-trump-flattery-overlooked-take-over-after-maduro-capture\/\">Machado peppers Trump with flattery after being overlooked to take over after Maduro capture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4407567\/trump-venezuela-intervention-2028-debate-rubio-vance\/\">Trump&#8217;s Venezuela intervention could settle the 2028 debate for Rubio and Vance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s an amazing phenomena. You know, you win the presidency, and we sure as hell are having a successful presidency. I will say that,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But even if it&rsquo;s successful, they don&rsquo;t win. I don&rsquo;t know what it is. There&rsquo;s something psychological.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>During the roughly 85-minute speech, he urged Republicans to &ldquo;just stay together.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What we&rsquo;re doing is the right thing for the country,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If you look at what we&rsquo;re trying to solve, the healthcare problem, we&rsquo;re trying to get better healthcare at a lower price. I mean, that&rsquo;s a good thing, right?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You want to turn this thing? You work on Favored Nations, you work on borders, you work on all of the things that we talked about, but now you take the healthcare issue away from them,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;But you&rsquo;ve got to be flexible on Hyde,&rdquo; referring to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3885355\/funding-restrictions-abortions-extension-obamacare-subsidies\/\">the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >legislative provision barring federal funds<\/a><\/a> from going to health organizations that provide abortion services.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks on the Hyde Amendment are sure to raise criticism within the Republican ranks. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ramsberry1\/status\/2008582101525033216\">Immediately after Trump&rsquo;s comments<\/a>, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) said he&rsquo;s &ldquo;not flexible in the value of human life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t believe some children are disposable and some children are valuable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The president did address the tragic death of Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) earlier this week. He called a &ldquo;champion&rdquo; for children and water-use policies, noting that &ldquo;he voted with [him] 100% of the time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He wasn&rsquo;t a three o&rsquo;clock in the morning person, do you know what I mean by that?,&rdquo; Trump continued, referencing his efforts to earn Republican yays in the 11th hour before votes. &ldquo;And with Doug, I never had to call. He was with us right from the beginning. I love those guys. I must say, I probably love them the best. You know the guys that I don&rsquo;t have to call, they know we&rsquo;re doing the right thing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4379341\/trump-more-progressive-biden-economically-one-year\/\"><strong>AFTER ONE YEAR, TRUMP IS ON HIS WAY TO &lsquo;OUT-PROGRESSIVE-ING&rsquo; BIDEN ON THE ECONOMY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They just want the call. They want love. They need love,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re more insecure than most of you. Most of you are secure people &mdash; don&rsquo;t, you&rsquo;re all laughing. No, most of you are secure people. I had a couple say, &lsquo;Look, I could have Trump call me all the time. I just have to break his ass a little bit and he&rsquo;ll be calling, calling, calling.&rsquo; But I appreciate those.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The rest of Trump&rsquo;s remarks more or less followed his typical campaign rally format, including comments on border security, trans-athletes competing in women&rsquo;s sports, violent crime in U.S. cities, his tariff agenda, and Democrats&rsquo; marking of the five-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-truncated-south-pacific-trip-not-a-win-for-china\/\" title=\"Biden says truncated South Pacific trip not a &#039;win&#039; for China\">president briefly discussed<\/a> his recent capture of former <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4400674\/us-to-run-venezuela-until-transition-can-take-place\/\">Venezuelan<\/a> dictator <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4400178\/trump-hails-success-of-fantastic-maduro-mission\/\">Nicolas Maduro<\/a>, questioning why Democrats were criticizing his operation considering Maduro was a &ldquo;bad guy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve been after this guy for years and years and years, and he&rsquo;s a violent guy,&rdquo; Trump said, claiming that protesters opposed to the action are &ldquo;paid.&rdquo; &ldquo;He gets up there and he tries to imitate my dance a little bit, but he&rsquo;s a violent guy, and he&rsquo;s killed millions of people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We should all have quality signage like that. The one thing I want, I want their sign making. The guy is great. He does beautiful signage,&rdquo; the president said. &ldquo;Now I want to find out who that is. I wanted to work for the Republican campaign. He&rsquo;s much better than our guy, whoever the guy is.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump did signal one relatively new messaging line ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, touting the success of his most favored nation&rsquo;s drug-pricing policy and claiming that new deals in the coming year would drive down costs of prescription medications by &ldquo;thousands of percent.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;On that one item, you should win this election. The&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;barely wrote about it. The other papers barely wrote about it. Nobody even knows about the drug prices,&rdquo; he claimed. &ldquo;These things are so important because you guys got to get elected. Because if you don&rsquo;t get elected, we have a country that&rsquo;s going to go to hell, so we can&rsquo;t play games, ladies and gentlemen.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4407567\/trump-venezuela-intervention-2028-debate-rubio-vance\/\"><strong>TRUMP&rsquo;S VENEZUELAN INTERVENTION WILL LIKELY SETTLE THE 2028 DEBATE FOR RUBIO AND VANCE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can watch Trump&rsquo;s remarks in full below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"N6tzCCyfwFM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Trump Delivers Remarks at the House GOP Member Retreat\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N6tzCCyfwFM?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump: Focus on healthcare, be flexible on Hyde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2530528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP26006572252753.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32319,70225,32920],"class_list":["post-2530527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-retreat","tag-house-republicans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP26006572252753.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530527","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\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2530531,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530527\/revisions\/2530531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2530528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}