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WASHINGTON — This morning, at the weekly House Republican Leadership press conference, Speaker Johnson discussed President Trump’s historic address to Congress and Democrats’ lack of leadership and a coherent message.

Watch Speaker Johnson’s full remarks here

On President Trump’s Joint Address:

Tonight, as was mentioned, it's five years after President Trump’s last State of the Union address. This is a joint address to Congress, not a state of the union, because a state of the union is typically delivered on or around the one-year anniversary, first year in office. But this president is working so quickly. I invited him to come early in the process to give this joint address because there's so much to report to the people, and we're delighted he's going to be there. If he if he just stood at the speaker's rostrum and read off all his list of accomplishments since January 20th, we'd be there all night. I don't expect it'll go that long. He's going to give a truncated version of this, but there really is so much to celebrate. 

The president has already notched impressive lists of wins in so many categories. Here’s a few: securing the border so well that border crossings have hit an historic low, deporting criminal illegal aliens, taking on the cartels directly, standing up to terrorists, bringing hostages back home, working to secure peace around the globe, ending the weaponization of government, bringing investments in jobs back to the US, unleashing American energy, keeping men out of women's sports that the Democrats don't seem to agree with us on, and cutting waste, fraud, abuse. I mean, all this has happened in just 43 days.

On Democrats lack of message and leadership:

Polling continues to show that the American people are with us on the issues. In Congress, we have the highest approval rating in four years. Among Republicans in our party, we have the highest approval rating in over 20 years. You have to go back to August of 2005 to see similar numbers. And I think the reason for that is because we're restoring common sense, and that is the theme that the president keeps reiterating over and over. 

We are restoring what makes sense to the people. And this contrast between our policies and our ideas, and this commonsense agenda is very different than our Democrat colleagues. They are defending wasteful government spending right now. They're opposing tax cuts for working families. They're supporting open board borders and sanctuary cities, as you heard about this morning. And they're doing all that above the wellbeing of the American people. And the American people are taking note. And while house Democrats struggle to find a message that hasn't already been rejected by the American people, House Republicans are going to continue to deliver for the country. 

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