It was reported earlier today by ConservativeBrief that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy laid out Republican priorities if the party manages to take control of the chamber away from Democrats during the November midterms that included efforts to “hold the Biden administration accountable.”
“Republican priorities when we regain the majority next year: 1 – Hold the Biden Administration accountable 2 – Secure the Border 3 – Make our cities safe again 4 – Rein in the out-of-control inflation 5 – Stop the overreach of government mandates,” McCarthy, a California Republican, said in a Friday tweet containing a short video clip in which he outlined the GOP agenda.
A source close to McCarthy’s thinking told Fox News that the Republican agenda is far more comprehensive than just the talking points he outlined during Friday’s press conference to include helping to solve the ongoing supply chain crisis and addressing President Biden’s deadly, hectic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
In addition, the source said the GOP will also focus on the migrant influx along the U.S.-Mexico border and the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, among other things.
The source said that GOP leaders have already sent out preservation notices to various agencies as well as requests for documents that “will be ready on Day 1 to use the various tools at our disposal” to learn more about what appears to be politically motivated moves by Biden’s Justice Department as well as how information about private citizens was disclosed by the IRS and National Security Agency.
Meantime, polling for months has shown approval ratings for both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris cratering, with one of the most recent surveys finding that just 33 percent of respondents said they approved of his job as president. The same survey found that 55 percent disapproved nearly a year into his first term.
Biden and Harris aren’t doing well with their own voters, either. In late December, a Yahoo News/YouGov survey found that just 38 percent of those who voted for Biden in 2020 want him to run again in 2024.
