President Trump touted unity during his visit to the Capitol on Tuesday, saying he does not want to “benefit Democrat governors” with the House GOP budget bill.
Trump visited the Capitol to aid negotiations between moderate and conservative House Republicans on a budget bill that includes important agenda items for the president, such as making the 2017 tax cuts permanent, raising the cap for the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, and ending taxes on tips.
“We have a very, very unified party,” Trump said on Tuesday.
“I just had my highest poll numbers ever — ever,” he added. “And we had a big trip to the Middle East. We took in $5.1 trillion dollars, we brought it back to our country.”
“The economy is doing great — the stock market’s higher now than when I came to office,” the president continued. “We’ve taken in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariff money, and we’ve had no inflation.”
“I don’t think the Republican Party has ever been so unified — it’s become a much bigger party,” Trump said, touting union voters.
Regarding the budget bill, Trump said, “We’re going to make a couple of tweaks. We don’t want to benefit Democrat governors — although, I would do that if it made it better, but they don’t know what they’re doing. We don’t want to do any damage to a state. We want to help all the states.
“But we have governors that are from the Democrat Party — let’s say New York, Illinois, big ones — let’s say Gavin Newsom, who’s done a horrible job in California,” he continued. “We want to benefit Republicans because they are the ones that are going to make America great again. The Democrats are destroying our country, and you see that with the past administration, with an open-borders policy that allowed 21 million people into our country — many of those people are stone-cold murderers, killers, and trouble.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson has set a deadline for Monday, Memorial Day, to pass the budget bill.
