Our closing argument: The midterms are a referendum on who runs your life
The coming midterms lay bare a divide that runs deeper than policy and older than any party platform.Beneath every debate sits a single question, and it is the question on which this election turns: Who do you trust to run your life, you or the government? House Republicans' answer is our closing argument.The current Republican majority arrived in Congress in January 2025 and spent the next 20 months answering that question.
After record highs of hundreds of thousands of illegals streaming over the southwest border into the country under President Joe Biden, we’ve slammed the door shut.We now have the most secure border in modern American history.Families in El Paso, Texas no longer worry about migrants roaming the streets at night.
We’ve funded and empowered law enforcement for the first time since 2020, resulting in the largest recorded drop in violent crime in FBI history.Now a mother in Chicago can let her son play outside after school without worry.SHOCKING PERCENTAGE OF DEMOCRATS IDENTIFY AS 'DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS' ACCORDING TO NEW POLL: 'TOXIC POLICIES'The Working Families Tax Cuts delivered the largest tax cut for the middle class in American history, putting money where it belongs: back in the pockets of those who earned it.
By delivering "No Tax on Tips," "No Tax on Overtime" and a tax break for seniors.Republicans put real money back into the hands of the waitress closing out a double shift, the lineman working and the retiree who spent a lifetime building this country.Members of the Democratic Socialists of America gather outside of a Trump-owned building on May Day/May 1, 2019, in New York City.
(Spencer Platt/Getty Images North America)We lifted Washington's weight off your backs, shrinking the federal government to its smallest level since 1966.We rolled back red tape that drove up the price of a car and many appliances and stood between ambitious Americans and the businesses they dreamed of starting.
That is what small government with big re...