Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts says Congress has delivered key policy wins during President Donald Trump’s second term on issues ranging from the economy to border security.
Roberts joined cohost Larry O’Connor
In particular, Roberts emphasized how well Congress has aligned with the Trump administration’s legislative agenda.
“This Congress, this administration,” Roberts said, “are implementing exactly what they said they would in 2024.”
Policy Accomplishments
Specifically, Roberts pointed to congressional approval of over 700 miles of border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, substantial immigration security personnel increases, and, most notably, the Laken Riley Act, which passed less than a month after its introduction.
“It puts real teeth into the enforcement,” Roberts said. “The kind of thing that ought to transcend so much our partisan politics, but there’s no doubt that if a Democrat Socialist of America Left comes into power in Congress, they’re going to work to chip away at it.”
On the economy, Roberts said the greatest thing Congress did was pass Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, also known as the Working Families Tax Cuts Act
“Had they not passed the One Big Beautiful Bill,” Roberts said, “there would have been a $4 trillion tax increase on the American people—the bulk of that would have gone to working-class and middle-class American families.”
The law renewed and permanently established Trump’s 2017 tax cuts as law, including a tax cut, a standard deduction for single and married couples, and a child tax credit.
“That would not have happened were it not for, not just a conservative majority in Congress,” Roberts said, “but the most conservatives of the conservatives in Congress.”
A Warning for America
Roberts and O’Connor lauded House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., for his role despite a narrow congressional majority—one of the smallest ever for a speaker to manage.
“The thing he has been emphasizing for the last few weeks,” Roberts said, “the contrast between, not just the aspirations of conservatives on Capitol Hill, but what they’ve actually done with what the Left wants to do.”
Speaker Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump (Annabelle Gordon/AFP via Getty Images)
Roberts warned that Democrats, if given power, would almost immediately undo all the progress advanced by conservatives.
“All the economic benefits, that is going to go away,” Roberts said. “It is the economic policies of the Left that will arrest that trajectory [of growth] and actually reverse it.”
Fighting for Conservative Policy
The best thing for America, Roberts said, would be even more conservative wins on the border and economy.
“We want conservative policymakers in D.C.,” Roberts said. “It’s vital that we maximize the number who are so willing to fight on a good policy that they would take barbs, and slings and arrows from the press.”
While recent polls and history suggesting the opposing party will make gains in this year’s midterm elections, Roberts painted his best-case scenario of the next few years should conservatives score an upset victory in November.
“What if we’ve got a decade to work on this, and grassroots activists and the American people are able to hold our politicians’ feet to the fire, including and especially those on our side?” Roberts proposed. “Man, this might just be the golden age of America.”
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