President Donald Trump expressed optimism about The negotiations in Congress to promote their agenda on taxes and immigration, declaring that the political movement of his party will have a lasting permanence in Washington.
Trump repeated many measures of his first month back in the White House in a speech at the Conservative Political Conference, and told the friendly audience that he is confident that The Republican party will exceed historical probabilities and will avoid a negative reaction of voters in the mid -period elections next year.
“I think it will be fantastically well in the intermediate elections”Trump said. “We are going to forge a new and lasting political majority that will promote US politics during the next generations.”
Trump’s comments on Saturday put an end to another CPAC in which an enthusiastic support was shown to the Republican President. Attendees over the three days of this year’s conference were able to enjoy a parade of Trump allies, including members of their administration, as well as foreign leaders who share ideologically The position of the Republican President in key issues.
Much of the Trump agenda depends on a package of expenses that Republicans are currently debating in the Capitol to extend their 2017 tax cuts and channel money to immigration control agencies. Republican divisions have manifested in the House of Representatives and the Senatewith the cameras diving on a single bill in front of one of two.
Even while legislators argue about the approach to key measures, Trump said that the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, and the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, ““They have done a fantastic job” until now.
Budget hawks have proposed to reduce spending, although the changes proposed to the Tax Code threaten to increase the country’s deficit. Trump criticized legislators who disagree with the focus of the party in general, saying that “from time to time, there is someone who wants a little action.” He added: “I just hate to see him, but they stay united”
The annual CPAC meeting on the outskirts of Washington attracts conservatives around the world and has been a friendly territory for Trumpeven in the years he was out of the White House. In 2023, he took advantage of an appearance there to boost his candidacy for re -election, even when the surveys of that moment showed that many Republican voters were open to an alternative, and told the attendees that “I am their remuneration.”
Last year, he spoke in the event when the Republican primaries were practically completed, and took advantage of his speech to refer to the general elections.
The billionaire Elon Musk, The face of the president’s initiative to cut the workforce and federal government expenditureappeared on Thursday wielding a chainsaw and a black blassonada cap with the characteristic motto of Trump “Make America Great Again“
The chainsaw was delivered to Musk on stage by Javier Milei, the populist president of the extreme right of Argentina, who has become a conservative icon for his efforts to use the “shock therapy” to revitalize the economy of his country. Milei went to the conference on Saturday and said he wants to be the first in Row to sign a free trade agreement with Trump.
Another Trump ally, Steve Bannon, unleashed the controversy during the conference when He extended his right arm with the palm down, in a gesture that remembered the Nazi greeting. Although Bannon denied having made the Nazi greeting, this led Jordan Bardella, the president of the French French party of the National Group, to cancel his speech.
