House Speaker Mike Johnson's reelection Friday is a signal that "we finally have a Congress that is America First," as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, Rep. Burgess Owens told Newsmax Sunday.
"This began back in President Trump's first term when we began to bring people to Congress to care more about our country than themselves," said the Utah Republican on Newsmax's "Sunday Agenda." "It's the first time that we've had a small majority in the House and the Senate. And yet here we are all on board [with the] first ballot and this is just the beginning."
Trump has also been meeting with lawmakers at Mar-a-Lago "so we can make sure we're on the same page," said Owens.
"He is our leader," he added. "He has a mandate, and the mandate that he has is that we're going to make sure what his promises are to the American people and we're going to follow. It's going to be a very exciting time for us."
Johnson, he added, "hit the points" in his acceptance speech.
"He's one of the most conservative Congress people we have and also one of the most respected, and he doesn't play games. He doesn't make deals," said Owens. "Now he's the right guy and he has a relationship with President Trump that's going to make sure that we don't have the chaos that we've had in the past. So these are remarkable times."
The United States, Owens said, was "close to coming off the edge, going off the abyss and here we are. People from every background color, race, and creed, it doesn't matter. We want our country back. We want sanity. We want the American dream to live again."
It also took having President Joe Biden in office to "see how bad things get," said Owens.
"We don't want Marxism," he said. "We want the American dream alive and we have the right people at the right time. So just know that we're going to be in a position from generations from this point moving forward that we can say we were alive, we're part of it. And we made a big difference by bringing President Trump with his mandate back to the White House … now is our time to get back to teaching our kids, to love our nation, to have big dreams, to understand meritocracy."
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Sandy Fitzgerald has more than three decades in journalism and serves as a general assignment writer for Newsmax covering news, media, and politics.
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