JUST IN: Elise Stefanik Rips Biden And Pelosi In First Remarks Since Replacing Liz Cheney

well first i wanted to thank my colleagues for the opportunity to serve as the house republican conference chair i have prioritized listening to all members of our republican conference and my focus is on unity because that's what the american people and that's what our voters deserve i also want to thank this leadership team i look forward to working with them in partnership shoulder to shoulder to make sure that we are fighting on behalf of hard-working americans i also want to thank president trump for his support he is a critical part of our republican team and of course most importantly i want to thank the voters of new york's 21st congressional district whom i'm honored to represent each and every day and fight for them the american people are suffering under the far left radical socialist policies of president joe biden and speaker nancy pelosi in just over 100 days we have an economic crisis we have a border crisis and we have a national security crisis the economic crisis we see the worst jobs report in over 20 years unemployment is up small businesses are struggling to hire workers and speaker pelosi and joe biden solution to that is to pay people to stay out of work rather than incentivizing people to get back to work as republicans we are fighting to reopen the economy to create jobs we are fighting against the trillions of dollars of tax increases and the trillions of dollars of reckless spending the border crisis this is not only a national security and homeland security crisis this is a humanitarian crisis we see historic concerning numbers when it comes to human trafficking on the border when it comes to drug trafficking on the border every single state in this nation is a border state and feels that impact at home in my district the northern border is being impacted because border patrol officers are being transferred from the northern border to the southern border republicans stand for border security and of course the national security crisis we are seeing our strongest ally israel under attack and we have seen joe biden and nancy pelosi not step up to stand by and support israel and prioritize outreach to adversaries like china and iran so i'm very excited for this opportunity we are unified working as one team and the american people know that the stakes are incredibly high we are going to fight for them each and every day against the destructive radical far-left socialist agenda of president joe biden and nancy pelosi that's destroying america and i'll go to the first question from the new york post julie um so he kind of came under fire from some conservatives that were concerned about your record are you concerned about i mean unifying your message but even those criticisms going into your uh the vote because how do you kind of overcome that listen the republican party is a big ten party and my district is the story of the growth of the republican party my district voted for president obama by double digits and voted for president trump and myself by double digits we have worked to grow the republican party and we nancy pelosi has her slimmest majority in a generation we are going on offense and are going to win back the majority in 2022. this is about being unified i'm a proud conservative republican and i will fight for the republican conference but how can you be unified is president trump the leader of the republican party i believe that voters determine the leader of the republican party and president trump is the leader that they look to i support president trump voters support president trump he is an important voice in our republican party and we look forward to working with them how can you be unified so long as you have some members who support the former president and some who don't we are unified and i look to the voters across america republican voters are unified in their support and their desire to work with president trump and we are unified as republicans as you as i said this is the slimmest majority that nancy pelosi has in a generation we picked up a number of seats defied expectations we're going on offense and we're going to win on the issues because people are understanding that joe biden's pledge to bipartisanship he has broken that pledge since his first day in office there has been no bipartisan outreach it has been party line partisan far-left votes and the american people are seeing the disastrous results in the border crisis the economic crisis the national security crisis and more the american people are hurting and republicans are going to fight for them hearing that uh trip roy was getting in the race president trump statement last night suggesting that he should be challenged do you agree with that listen competition is good in america we are the united states of america we should have a discussion of ideas i welcome the competition i'm honored for the support we are working as one team my job as house republican conference chair we are focused on putting forth policies and communicating them to the american people to beat democrats and we are going to win the majority in 2022 as one team um is there a place in the party for vocal trump critics like liz cheney like adam kinzinger liz cheney is a part of this conference adam kinzinger is a part of this conference they were elected and sent here by the people in their district they are part of this republican conference we are unified in working with president trump my job representing our republican members the vast majority of you look forward to working with president trump yeah since the events of this week thank you everybody all right one last thing i want to wish our policy chair right here happy birthday um gary palmer it's his birthday today and so do you all remember the birthday song here we go hey all right everybody have a good weekend

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Length: 5min 58sec (358 seconds)

Published: Fri May 14 2021

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In her first remarks since replacing Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) in House GOP leadership, Rep. Elise Stefanik ripped President Biden and Speaker Pelosi for policies she says are "destroying America," while thanking former President Trump.