[Your campaign brief for January 24, 2025]
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This week, America celebrated the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States (for the second time). The inauguration itself was moved indoors inside the Capitol Rotunda, and President Trump’s speech outlined a vision for the next four years that will undoubtedly lead America down a better path than the last four. Whether it is his hyperfocus on combating the Mexican drug cartels or his rescinding of the disastrous executive orders of the Biden Administration, President Trump’s first week in office kicked off with a lot of promise.
Now, it’s time to get to work. Here’s your brief.
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S MOST IMPORTANT PROMISE
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President Trump campaigned on a lot of promises. Lowering the cost of living, securing the border, restoring peace through American strength on the world stage, the list goes on. The promise I am most eager to help him deliver on is his promise to destroy the Mexican drug cartels.
This has been a primary focus of mine in Congress. I lead the Congressional Task Force to Combat the Mexican Drug Cartels, a bipartisan group of lawmakers organizing a strategy to take down this threat. My legislation to improve our targeting of support networks for the cartels was signed into law. And I’ve offered several pieces of legislation like an authorization for the use of military force against the cartels. Now that we have a President who is aligned with this priority, we can actually make significant headway in eliminating them.
A key piece to this equation, however, is the Mexican government itself. We can only do so much unilaterally from the United States government. We must have a partner in our neighbor to the south if we want to do what’s necessary to root out this threat. The Mexican government needs to want to eliminate the cartels as much as we do, and they have good reason to. The cartels operate as a terrorist insurgency throughout the country, killing politicians by the dozens and holding vast swaths of territory in Mexico.
President Trump is a master negotiator. I am confident that he will use a carrot-stick approach with Mexican leaders to persuade them into cooperating with our efforts to destroy this mutual enemy.
For Congress, it is up to our leaders in the House whether they want to match President Trump’s eagerness to take on the cartels. I have [proposed a select committee]([link removed]) to combat the cartels, which will focus the House’s legislative efforts through one central body that will make it easier to pass legislation on the House floor.
This is a proposal I am vigorously advocating for, and I am hopeful we can get it done. It’s time to match our rhetoric with actual action.
GOODBYE BIDEN EXECUTIVE ORDERS!
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President Trump spent his first hours in the White House taking an axe to the horrible executive orders issued during Joe Biden’s miserable time in office. Breitbart has compiled a helpful list, which includes:
- Biden’s order to make “equity,” rather than “equality,” the focus of federal policy;
- Biden’s order to include illegal aliens in the Census;
- Biden’s order to impose coronavirus mandates and restrictions;
- Biden’s order to allow transgender individuals to serve in the military;
- Biden’s order to ban private prisons;
- Biden’s order to prioritize climate change; to ease immigration enforcement;
- Biden’s order to revoke sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC);
- Biden’s order to establish a court-packing commission to make the Supreme Court permanently liberal;
- Biden’s order to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in federal hiring;
- Biden’s order to restrict offshore oil and gas development;
- Biden’s order to impose sanctions on Israelis linked to the political right;
- Biden’s order to rescind Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism; and
- Biden’s order to revoke many of Trump’s executive orders from his first term.
Looking at this list, it’s hard to fathom just how ridiculous some of the Biden executive actions were. President Trump’s decision to swiftly end them is common sense, but it predictably caused outrage on the left.
President Trump is taking action to restore American energy dominance by ending the Biden administration’s war on the fossil fuel industry. He’s ending ridiculous “DEI” programs within the federal government, focusing rightly on merit instead. And he’s preserving critical institutions in America like the Supreme Court by stopping in its tracks efforts to pack the court.
These Day One actions from President Trump outline a simple but consequential agenda for the next four years: focus on the basics of what the American government is supposed to do, and end all the superfluous BS of the last four years.
A CELEBRATION OF LIFE, AND A TELLING VOTE ON THE HOUSE FLOOR
This week, the annual March for Life came triumphantly into Washington. I use the word triumphantly purposefully, because this latest election was a triumph for the Pro Life movement. While the left and their allies in the media tried desperately to fearmonger Americans about a “total abortion ban” during a second Trump term, the American people simply did not buy it.
It turns out, Americans largely agree with President Trump’s position on abortion. President Trump nominated justices to our Supreme Court who overturned the disastrous Roe v. Wade and returned the debate over abortion back to our political process. President Trump’s resounding victory proved that Americans have a far more conservative view on abortion than the left would like to believe.
In fact, the left proved that they still have not absorbed the message of the election. Americans do not align with their extreme position on abortion, and yet House Democrats doubled down on that position this week. All but one House Democrat voted against protecting babies who are born alive after an attempted abortion.
That’s all H.R. 21 does - require lifesaving medical care for babies who survive an attempted abortion. Yes 99% of House Democrats voted against that commonsense measure. It is up to the Pro Life movement - in Congress, among activists, all of us - to make sure Americans know exactly where both parties stand on this critical issue.
The March for Life on Washington in the first week of President Trump’s return to the White House is symbolic of the fact that we are winning hearts and minds on this issue.
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ENDEX has been a year in the making because, let’s face it, manufacturing in the USA isn’t easy. But it’s worth it.
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SOCIAL MEDIA
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NEWS
FOX NEWS: [‘It’s time to kill the cartels,’ says Rep. Dan Crenshaw]([link removed])
The Hill: [Crenshaw pushes Apple to use ‘Gulf of America’ on maps]([link removed])
That's it for this week's campaign brief. Thank you for reading.
In service,
Dan Crenshaw
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