Next year, Americans will be facing our nation’s most critical midterm election. Never have the stakes been so high. President Donald Trump is attempting to revamp the Republican Party and the federal bureaucracy while ending long-standing international conflicts.
While he is attempting to “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) and undo the horrible damage inflicted by his predecessor, President Joe Biden, Democrats are obsessed with stopping everything he proposes and are infected with “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
If Republicans do not win the midterm elections, the final two years of the Trump presidency will be a political battleground in which no legislation will pass, and Trump will be impeached again. Today, Republicans have control of Congress and the White House and need to use that power to enact legislation that will benefit Americans.
If President Trump is going to succeed on this extremely consequential mission, he will need robust support from congressional Republicans. After ten months of his second term, Trump has already issued 215 Executive Orders, slightly less than the 220 Executive Orders of his entire first term.
According to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), House Republicans are enacting the President’s MAGA agenda. He said, “To date, we’ve voted to codify 50 of the President’s Executive Orders into law, from reining in waste, fraud, and abuse, to cutting bureaucratic red tape that has strangled America’s innovators, job creators, and entrepreneurs.”
Most of these accomplishments occurred with the passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” in July, which codified 28 of the President’s Executive Orders.
Unfortunately, since then, Republicans have been inactive. House members were not in session during the 43-day government shutdown, yet they were paid while federal workers did not receive paychecks.
This relaxed schedule will continue in 2026. In January, both chambers of Congress will be in session for only eight days, and, for almost the entire months of August and October, Congress will be on vacation, in preparation for midterm elections.
Congressional Republicans are displaying an utter lack of urgency. Instead, there must be an all-out campaign to enact the MAGA agenda, or the political consequences will be catastrophic.
As the election results showed in early November, Democrats are on a winning streak. They have taken back the governorship of Virginia. In New Jersey, a close electoral loss for Republicans four years ago turned into a blowout defeat this year.
History is also on the side of the Democrats. The power out of power almost always wins the midterm elections. The only way for Republicans to defy history is to boldly enact the MAGA agenda and collaborate closely with President Trump to codify his Executive Orders.
The bill that ended the shutdown will keep the federal government open until January 30, 2026. As Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent noted in a Washington Post editorial, “In January, when spending considerations again come due, if Democrats once again choose to shut down the government, then Republicans should immediately end the filibuster.”
Bessent’s remarks echo President Trump’s call to end the filibuster, which requires 60 votes in the U.S. Senate for most legislation to pass. Trump knows that if Democrats take control of the Senate, they will end the filibuster, so Republicans should do it first and start aggressively passing favorable legislation.
Trump believes the results will be advantageous for the GOP. He said, “If we do it, we will never lose the midterms, and we will never lose a general election, because we will have produced so many different things for our people, for the country, that it would be impossible to lose an election.”
As expected, establishment Republicans are not supportive of this idea. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-SD, is opposed to eliminating the filibuster, along with Speaker Johnson. However, if Republicans do not act boldly, Democrats will spend the next year thwarting the President’s agenda.
If another shutdown occurs, voters will blame Republicans again, like they did in the elections several weeks ago. Even though Democrats caused the shutdown, the media incorrectly blamed the Republicans, and it worked. Thus, Republicans cannot allow another shutdown to occur in a midterm election year.
Obviously, congressional Republicans do not understand what they are facing. Additionally, their current strategy is not impressing the American people. Overall, the average favorability ratings for Republicans are only 40.6 percent, while President Trump registers slightly higher at 42.8 percent.
To change this dynamic, the GOP needs bold action. For example, Republicans should end the corrupt practice of allowing members of Congress to trade stocks while in office. Even better, enact congressional term limits, which an astounding 87 percent of Americans support.
In her farewell statement, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA, expressed her disgust at the inaction in Congress. She said, “During the longest shutdown in our nation’s history, I raged against my own Speaker and my own party for refusing to proactively work diligently to pass a plan to save American health care and protect Americans from outrageous, overpriced, and unaffordable health insurance policies.”
The main messages of the recent elections were “affordability” and “healthcare.” Americans want progress on improving the economy and relief from soaring health insurance premiums. Not surprisingly, Obamacare has been a disaster, but Republicans must create and articulate their own plan to recover from this healthcare nightmare.
Also, House Republicans should move forward on the MAGA bills that Greene recently introduced. She noted examples such as “calling for a new census counting Americans only to draw new districts, making English the official language of the U.S., making it a felony to medically trans a minor, and other bills like eliminating capital gains taxes on the sale of your primary home, and eliminating H1B visas.”
Sadly, Greene said her bills have been sitting on the Speaker’s desk “collecting dust.” With such lethargy, the GOP is in big trouble, and the nation will be subjected to the horror of the Democrats winning the midterms.
To prevent such a catastrophe, MAGA supporters must get engaged now.
Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award-winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs Saturdays from Noon until 1 p.m. CT nationally on Real America's Voice TV Network & AmericasVoice.News and weekdays from 7-9 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. CT on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is a political columnist, the author of America's Last Chance, and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and at Crouere.net. For more information, email him at jcrouere@gmail.com