Last week marked one year since President Donald Trump returned to the White House with a mandate to reshape America’s future after four long years of the Biden administration’s failures.
Overnight, illegal crossings at the southern border were brought to a halt. Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives that picked winners and losers based on group identity were eliminated from the federal government. Lethality returned as the rightful marker of success in our nation’s military.
Under Trump, people finally have leaders willing to put them first. But, despite a record amount of executive orders and a landmark reconciliation bill that delivered the largest tax cut in United States history, $140 billion for border security, and the elimination of the $200 tax stamp on National Firearms Act items, the job isn’t done yet.
Obamacare’s systemically broken framework continues to get more expensive each year — both for taxpayers and enrollees. Young people remain priced out of the American dream, unable to afford a home. And despite holding a majority, Republicans in Congress have produced a historically low volume of legislation, leaving much of the Trump agenda uncodified and the deep state intact. While these challenges weren’t created in the last year and could hardly be solved in a matter of months, they are precisely why Republicans were elected: to fix the mess Washington created.
Republicans cannot coast into November on “tax cuts,” nor can we pretend that the nation’s most urgent, long-standing challenges will be solved through uncodified executive orders or rogue discharge petitions.
We need decisive action to address the crises facing the nation. We need to make the American dream affordable again. And before it’s too late, Congress needs the structure, discipline, and publicity of a new reconciliation bill that forces lawmakers to prioritize results and deliver tangible outcomes for the people.
It’s time to go big or go home.
Despite prediction markets giving Republicans a 76% chance of losing the majority in the House, many lawmakers don’t seem to care.
Just last week, 81 Republicans joined Democrats to fund the National Endowment for Democracy — a rogue CIA cut-out that fuels global censorship and domestic propaganda. Many of those same Republicans had praised the Department of Government Efficiency just months prior for freezing NED’s funding after Elon Musk warned that NED is “an evil organization that needs to be dissolved.”
Likewise, 46 Republicans joined Democrats to vote against defunding the office of federal district court Judge James Boasberg, who repeatedly uses nationwide injunctions to override duly executed federal law and substitute his own radical policy preferences for those of the president.
A few short years ago, Democrats attempted to lock Trump in prison and throw away the keys. Republicans, by contrast, can hardly muster the courage to dispense with, let alone defund, a rogue judge.
Meanwhile, much of the public’s work remains to be done.
While the House has passed Congressman Chip Roy’s (R-TX) Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act twice to ensure that only U.S. citizens vote in federal elections, the Senate refuses to put it up for a vote on the floor.
On healthcare, members of the House Freedom Caucus have offered the public an alternative to Obamacare’s failing architecture with market-based solutions that lower costs. Yet House moderates in our ranks, by contrast, have held firm on stupid, joining Democrats to pass an extension of Biden’s $448 billion temporary COVID-19 subsidies, which thankfully stalled in the Senate.
And despite good-faith effort from the administration on homeownership, the public needs more than solutions that subsidize demand. High interest rates, illegal immigration, and absurd capital gains taxes are crushing the market, leaving a low supply of homes for first-time buyers.
If Republicans don’t act now, we may not get the opportunity again. Democrats are on record clearly stating their intentions to derail the administration with subpoenas and impeachments should they assume the majority in the House.
We are a nation nearly $39 trillion in debt. People are sick of rhetoric and half-measures. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was passed in July 2025. If, twelve months later, we can only offer people last year’s accomplishments, do we expect them to believe we are legislating on their behalf?
The Republican Study Committee recently released a strong blueprint for a new reconciliation bill. The legislation would put more homes on the market by eliminating capital gains taxes on sales to first-time buyers. It includes healthcare reforms that empower people to direct their healthcare dollars toward insurance plans that best meet their individual needs, rather than those of their employers. The proposal also cuts over $1.6 trillion in government spending, returning a semblance of fiscal responsibility to Congress.
TRUMP 47 PUT AMERICA BACK ON TRACK
Republicans were elected to enact Trump’s “America first” agenda, not to manage decline and quietly finance the status quo. If members of Congress fail to seize this moment, they will have no one to blame but themselves when voters decide it’s time to send them home.
