Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, told Newsmax on Tuesday that his organization “couldn’t be more excited” by President Donald Trump’s actions during his first week in office.
House Republicans this week are holding a retreat at one of President Donald Trump’s golf resorts in Miami, which the president attended on Monday evening.
Roberts said on “Wake Up America” that the retreat likely won’t result in a substantive “shift” in direction for the new administration, which it said is focused “on closing the border,” describing that as “the right number one issue.”
He added that starting in the summer, “There’s going to be a focus on extending the Trump tax cuts. There’s going to be a focus on the legislative vehicles that simultaneously need to be passed to this Trump agenda, in terms of rooting out DEI in the executive branch.”
Roberts said, “Ultimately, we’re going to see in the second half of the year, I would believe, an additional set of priorities that Trump also is going to drive.”
He went on to compare Trump’s influence to that of former President Ronald Reagan, saying that “Trump is really mapping out the next 10, 20, 30 years of what an America First policy agenda would look like, much like how you guys did back in 1980 with Ronald Reagan.”
Roberts noted that “a lot of people are rightly focused on the short-term consequences” of the executive orders that Trump passed during his first week in office, but he said, “I think we’re going to see a lot of policy success” because of those orders.
He added, “Ultimately, this is setting the parameters for what the conservative movement, but more importantly, the United States of America will look like over the next generation. We at Heritage couldn’t be more excited to see this because of the policy damage that was done by the previous administration.”
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