New Year, new president, new Congress, new conservatism, new direction for the country,

I sit down with my friend U.S. Congressman Brandon Gill.

Brandon, thank you for being here.

Thanks for having me.

You are not only the representative from Texas's 26th Congressional District.

You are the president of the freshman class. I have not been the

president of a freshman class since 2004, and that was just in my high school. You were the president

of the whole freshman class of Congress. The freshman Republicans. I say we're pretty bifurcated

here. We're not quite to the bipartisanship yet. You didn't get a lot of Democrat votes. I'm not terribly surprised about that.

But you actually have been elected, even within the Congress, to a kind of a leadership role

for your new class. This was a bizarre election where you saw a major demographic shift,

lots of people who used to vote for Democrats or who

didn't vote at all, now voting Republican. So you're entering, not just as a spokesman for

a regular old congressional class. This is a rather distinct congressional class. What makes it

different? Well, that's exactly right. And what makes it different is we're coming in with a very distinct mandate.

You know, if I look across my class, there's 31 Republicans in my class.

Every single one of us ran to varying degrees on the Trump agenda.

You know, some people focused on energy, some people focused on the border, some people

focused on tax policy, some on social issues,

but all of us were different component parts of that Trump agenda.

So whenever we're coming in, we're 100% aligned with the president, I think, as a class.

And I think that's a very different situation than we had in 2016, for instance.

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