Republicans Close Out Final Week Of 2024 Race By Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud
HuffPost
A series of self-inflicted wounds made by top Republicans is giving Democrats ample fodder in the final days of the 2024 election.
Republicans have spent months assuring voters they wouldn’t do what Democrats have claimed they would do if they win control of Congress and the White House. They wouldn’t try and repeal the health care law known as Obamacare. They wouldn’t repeal a critical program creating tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs.
But in the last week of the 2024 campaign, several top Republicans let slip comments indicating their desired agenda if they return to power next year, including dismantling popular government programs that have bipartisan support in Congress.
On Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said House Republicans would seek to repeal the CHIPS and Science Act a bipartisan law whose federal investments in semiconductor factories have ushered in a manufacturing renaissance, adding thousands of new jobs, including in many battleground GOP districts across the country.
“I expect that we probably will but we haven’t developed that part of the agenda yet, we gotta get over the election first,” Johnson told Syracuse University student journalist Luke Radel while campaigning with Rep. Brandon Williams (R-N.Y.) in his central New York district on Friday.
Williams, one of the most vulnerable GOP incumbents this cycle who was elected by just one percentage point in 2022, awkwardly pushed back against the speaker, calling the law “hugely impactful” for his community.