Trump gathers with GOP lawmakers to determine tactics to move his agenda forward
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🗓️ 27 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the News Hour. The Trump administration ended week one with a Friday night mass |
| 0:06.0 | firing of more than a dozen lead inspectors of government oversight, a weekend uptick of immigration |
| 0:12.0 | arrests, and a day-long fight over deportations and tariffs with Colombia. |
| 0:16.7 | President Trump is meeting tonight with House Republicans at his golf resort in Miami. |
| 0:21.6 | Moments ago, he addressed the GOP lawmakers as they gathered for their annual strategy retreat. |
| 0:27.6 | If we do our job over the next 21 months, not only will House Republicans be reelected and expand our majority in 2006, we will cement a national governing coalition |
| 0:40.4 | that will preserve American freedom for generations to come. |
| 0:45.1 | Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin is in Miami at the Republican retreat and joins us now. |
| 0:51.0 | So, Lisa, tell us what you're hearing from those House Republicans. Are they all |
| 0:55.1 | firmly behind the president's actions? |
| 0:59.0 | The sense here, Omna, is that they are. Certainly publicly, Republicans are all telling me that they back even his most controversial ideas. |
| 1:06.0 | Now, what is happening, though, somewhat behind the scenes is that there is some discomfort for some members on some ideas, including things like Cubans and Venezuelans who have |
| 1:15.9 | temporary status. |
| 1:16.9 | That's an issue here in Miami, in Florida in particular. |
| 1:20.3 | But members who have problems with the way that President Trump has proceeded here seem |
| 1:24.2 | to be trying to influence him behind the scenes, not criticizing them. |
| 1:28.1 | Overall, he has basically a wide grace period, a very wide birth from his own party to do what |
| 1:33.3 | he will right now as they watch him. |
| 1:35.3 | I asked Speaker Johnson just a few hours ago about the President Trump's announcement |
| 1:40.0 | that he may want to dismantle FEMA as well as his firings of those inspectors general. |
| 1:46.0 | And Johnson defended both of those moves as the sign of what he calls a new era in government. |
| 1:52.3 | When the president says he wants to make the government more efficient and effective, |
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