Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Conference Chair Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), NRCC Chair Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), Conference Policy Chair Kevin Hern (R-Okla.), Conference Vice Chair Blake Moore (R-Utah), and Conference Secretary Erin Houchin (R-Ind.) to discuss how the House Republican leadership team will work to make life safe and affordable for American families. Leader Scalise outlined how this unified leadership team will execute the mandate voters gave them and will deliver President Trump’s America First agenda.
 
On the future of House Republican leadership:

“I, too, want to thank our new members of this really strong, unified leadership team, and [Congressman] Kevin Hern and [Congresswoman] Erin Houchin, and our new conference chair, [Congresswoman] Lisa McClain. We're really excited about the selections that our conference made today.

“We are going to miss [Congresswoman] Elise Stefanik, and she served our conference so well for so many years as our conference chair. But there are bigger things ahead for Elise. And we know that President Trump is going to benefit tremendously from Elise being the UN ambassador. The world is going to see what we've all known is she's a strong leader and is going to, I think, really do a great job of representing America's values and views and Trump's foreign policy at the United Nations, where it is so desperately needed.”

On a better America under President Trump:

“If you think about how we started this morning, we had President Trump come talk to us about what is ahead in this unified government. We went all around the country, and I was in every swing district. I got to campaign with President Trump himself. And you could see the energy around the country. When President Trump talked about the things he would do to Make America Great Again – it's not just a tagline on a hat. It's what we're going to do to secure America's border. It's how we're going to lower food costs and energy costs for those families who are struggling across this country who have been clamoring for somebody to hear their plight, and President Trump did. And he did it in every corner of the nation. He won every swing state because he had a message that was focused on those hard-working families who are struggling. And they responded by giving us this overwhelming mandate. And we are already working to deliver on that promise. We're excited about this opportunity for the American people to go and fight to get those policies put in place now that will lower their food costs and lower their energy costs and secure the border, working with President Trump to deliver a better America. And I am proud to say that the leader of that effort here in this new Republican majority who was elected today unanimously by our members to be the speaker of the House, again, marshaling through this effort, is our speaker today and our speaker tomorrow, Mike Johnson.”

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