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Now that Congress is on a two-week recess, what should be the top priority of President Trump and Congressional Republicans when they return?

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Brian B
Brian B
6 years ago

Immigration reform is at the forefront of this nation’s problems. Sanctuary cities need to be punished, the wall needs to be built, illegals deported, and stricter immigration vetting legislated and enforced.
Solving this problem would concurrently help to solve the nation’s drug epidemic, the entitlement abuses, and the national debt.

HAM
HAM
6 years ago

I hesitate to choose just 1 because they are all equally important in my opinion. They all need to be worked on now even though none will be solved this year. Starting now will give Congress time to come up with good plans (we can only hope) rather than last minute. I don’t think we should tackle immigration just before the mid term election unless there can be positive outcome on the DACCA solution. This is too hot an issue.

PaulE
PaulE
6 years ago

Well both Ryan and McConnell have said that from their perspective, any major legislative push, on any issue, would have to wait until AFTER the mid terms. Which in their world means next year. As both explained, members of Congress will be devoting their time to getting re-elected. So much for being able to multi-task and advance the President’s and the people’s agenda. Just an FYI.

As for President Trump, obviously he is able to multi-task and is willing to pursue ALL these issues. He has already specified to Congress, on multiple occassions, what he expects in any legislation Congress sends to him for his signature. The bottlenecks to date with respect to healthcare reform (full repeal of Obamacare), immigration reform (getting the wall fully funded and built, as well as addressing illegal sanctuary cities and other moving us towards merit based immigration), infrastructure, and reduction of national debt (not a repeat of the Demicrst spending bill Ryan and McConnell gave Trump last week) have all been due to either Congressional inaction / stalling or Congress simply NOT wanting to enact Trump’s agenda.

Congress wasted 8 months of 2017 NOT repealing Obamacare. McConnell continues to refuse to eliminate the filibuster rule. So getting any of the other issues listed resolved via the Senate is a non-starter given the Democrats want the exact opposite of what President Trump and those that voted for him want.

The people need to eliminate every Republican that is NOT a fiscal or constitutional conservative from Congress that is up for re-election this year via the primary process. The House Freedom Caucus, which is the group in the House that has consistently voted for the Trump agenda needs to be greatly expanded, so Ryan is forced to draft and pass fiscally and constitutionally conservative bills through the House. On the Senate side, the same has to be done via the RINO Senators up for re-election. Also the people of Kentucky need to launch an emergency recall petition for McConnell to get him out altogether. That way the Governor of the state can appoint a much more conservative Senator to handle the balance of McConnell’s term (4 more years). Yes, it involves effort on everyone’s part, but that is what it takes if you actually want the President to have a chance at succeeding with YOUR AGENDA.

Have a nice weekend.

Freedom fighter
Freedom fighter
6 years ago

I would also include election reform. Far too many elections are being determined by illegal votes and voters.

Mary Reilly
Mary Reilly
6 years ago

Healthcare reform for those on Medicare is one. Then when dealing with the opiate crisis have mercy on those with intractable pain diseases and grant them the pain relief they need and deserve. Not all people taking pain medicine are addicts. In fact most are not. The bigger crisis is the suicides resulting from pain patients who cannot get the medicine they need and have no hope.

Cecilia
Cecilia
6 years ago

All of these issues are equally important. I cannot choose just one. I have been touched by all and not in a good way. Our vote put these guys in office we need to convince them to do what is right and necessary or vote them out of office( I do not mean go Democrat).

Joel H Foreman
Joel H Foreman
6 years ago

You can’t reduce the National Debt without entitlement reform and immigration reform; infrastructure and healthcare reform can then be addressed in appropriate priority/scope…

Just my opinon…

Alice Rohrbach
Alice Rohrbach
6 years ago

Seniors have got to have better , cheaper options for healthcare that include dental and eye care. We worked to be able to have care when older and instead we struggle , have to sacrifice care and neglect much needed medical and dental care so illegals get money and care. Something terribly wrong with that system…..Americans first !!!!!!!

BobA
BobA
6 years ago

This is not a question for a poll. How can anyone choose when they are all so important. Is it because our legislature’s can only work on one item at a time? Drain the Swamp!

Daniel Parker
Daniel Parker
6 years ago

The most important isn’t even on the list. Defunding Planned Parenthood. This modern day holocaust of murdering millions of innocents must stop! Five hundred million of taxpayers money goes to thus murderous organization. Both the president and congress have voted to continue its funding. Shame on them. This issue out trumps all others in importance.

Mark Sullivan
Mark Sullivan
6 years ago

I’m concerned that so many people think that the current immigration laws need to be reformed. This issue should be the complete and unbiased enforcement of the current immigration laws that are in the books. That would go a long way to addressing the immigration problem in this country.

pelicanjohn
pelicanjohn
6 years ago

The reason this country has so many problems and all the problems it has is because of the actions and or inactivity of the legislative branch of our republic. In other words a contrary, useless congress. That job was never intended to be a career opportunity. The only thing that will straighten out this country is congressional term limits. The sooner the better!

DaveG
DaveG
6 years ago

Where’s the “All of the above” selection? All we have to do is elect people that can walk and chew gum at the same time. Maybe they can only vote on one issue at a time but with 600 or so congress critters in office surely that can apportion out the work and do it all at the same time!!

Sharon Goldsworth
Sharon Goldsworth
6 years ago

How about everyone staying in Washington and actually doing some work. That should be number on priority. Quit fighting and try to work together. Something might actually get accomplished. No campaigning until after Labor Day.

pete
pete
6 years ago

protect 2nd amendment rights insures our 1st

Roger
Roger
6 years ago

These issues are nearly equally important, and none should be ignored by prioritizing some higher or lower than others. Two key issues that affect other issues and all US citizens are illegal immigration and repeal of the ACA. We cannot exercise our Constitutional Liberties if we are burdened financially by health care costs and benefits paid to ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ALIEN TRESPASSERS. We cannot expect ‘Life’ if we cannot afford healthcare and are exposed to MS-13 gangs roaming our streets, especially in Sanctuary cities. Congress needs to address ALL of the issues listed, with the national debt being a by-product of many of the other issues.

Theodore V Grau
Theodore V Grau
6 years ago

Exposure of the phony liberal news media once and for all

RAK
RAK
6 years ago

Immigration reform is the top one but all are important .You fix it along with the entitlement programs for them a d the money saved can be used for the others. English as our language must be made a requirement and the law of the land. That would eliminate Clinton’s executive order on providing multiple languages. That is another cost savings.

Franklin V. Anderson
Franklin V. Anderson
6 years ago

All items above necessarily will go toward reducing the national debt, not the annual deficit, but the total debt owed by the United States government. Just as Germany was crippled and economically destroyed after WWI by reparations, we are crippled with a national debt of similar proportions. Everything done by the previous administration has the effect of both weakening us, nationally and internationally, and strengthening the power our opponents have over us. Name one thing done in the previous 8 years that made the US stronger. Build the wall. Throw out the illegals, all of them. Reduce the burdens on the taxpayers. Strengthen our defense. Create profitable and beneficial jobs here, not overseas. Stop throwing away money on economically absurd and losing projects. We are in a fight that will get much worse before we either win or are crushed. Peace through strength is more than a fluffy motto; it is as statement of fact in a violent world headed for an amazing war.

Jeff H
Jeff H
6 years ago

If you’re in debt you pay for servicing the debt and not pay for other things that need to be taken care of. Think of your own house. Would you rather pay money into a meaningless hole or make a meaningful purchase for your home?

Stephen
Stephen
6 years ago

Build the wall!

RK B
RK B
6 years ago

Russian Collusion, that’s when 10-15 million Russians entered the U.S. illegally and dispersed to predominantly held Democrat states. Then voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump and other Republicans. ? Wait, that’s the tactic used by Democrats to stuff the ballot box for their candidates with non-citizen/non-resident voters.

Don
Don
6 years ago

Both entitlement and immigration reform first. Don’t mind having controlled (vetted) immigration and helping the truly needy but both are way out of hand thanks to the left. Get those back to where immigrants are vetted properly and welfare is back to the original plan of 6 months only and the pie in the sky garbage of free college and other nonsensical social programs are back in control. Then use the monies gained for Americans. Pay the debt down the RINOs have allowed the Dems to increase, for one, build the wall and man it. Get off this clownish game of SS and Medicare being “entitlements” since we are taxed our working life to pay for them. Make congress repay the monies they stole from the programs. Get those off who never paid into the programs. AND that’s just for starters.

R Cooper
R Cooper
6 years ago

All are important, no one can run a household, a company, a nation with large Debt, “Borrower is slave to the lender”. Government continues to grow, why? Immigration, close borders, have sound entry requirements, use id’s for everything, voting, Dr’s office, collection of handouts. Entitlements if here legally, payed into system or dependent of someone who did, great, but it’s been used to help everyone as a slush fund, get back to basics and common sense.

David C. Hooven
David C. Hooven
6 years ago

Build the wall, replace Sessions with Goudy.

Riicardo
Riicardo
6 years ago

The priority ought not be immigration “reform.” It needs to be Immigration ENFORCEMENT; our current laws are fine when they are enforced. Too bad our politicians don’t have the stomach for it.

Ken C
Ken C
6 years ago

Every point mentioned needs significant attention. Immigration reform is a misnomer for me. It should be stopping illegal entry to the United States. We already have laws in place against illegal entry that need to be enforced. infrastructure would provide many, many jobs and would be something enduring as compared to entitlements which are never ending with no permanent improvements.

Nancy N
Nancy N
6 years ago

I agree with so many others here- too simplistic a poll. Immigration ENFORCEMENT is #1 and will make huge gains in the other areas of the poll (national debt, healthcare, etc). Enforce the current laws first, before any talk of reform.

Other than that, just cut spending!!

Judy Smith
Judy Smith
6 years ago

Just like other polls we receive often, many from Congressional Republicans and some from President Trump’s chosen leaders for his reelection campaign, you don’t ask what we think is most important. You only give us a closed list. We need to include things that are not on the list. My first choice here would be “none of the above.” You know in that old Richard Prior movie from back in the eighties or early nineties. The one where a candidate (Richard Prior) gets elected because he doesn’t have a cookie cutter campaign list out there for the voters to choose him on.

Kim Lamonds
Kim Lamonds
6 years ago

I feel the infrastructure of the entire political system needs to be reviewed and reformed. The last president in office was able to get away with performing and making policies almost on a whim and unchallenged. Now that Trump is in office and was put there by the American people, he seems to have issues getting anything passed without meeting resistance. Seriously if any of the objectives of the elected government are to be met and completed, then the setup will have to be changed and allow what really needs to be done a system that can and will do the job. Also, like I learned as a child in the south, if you don’t have anything nice to say or if you just want to create chaos for chaos sake, then sit down on your hands and keep your mouth shut!

Tom
Tom
6 years ago

You missed the biggest priority of Congress…Term Limits. Without this as a starting point, nothing else will ever get accomplished. All that they have done since Trump will be undone by liberals as they retake control over the next 2-3 elections. The only things permanent in the DC Swamp are the massive corruption and self-serving politicians who rape the system. Dems and Repubs included.

Tony W
Tony W
6 years ago

The real answer is a budget. Congress’ primary duty for which they rarely accomplish because they do not possess the proper skills to accomplish – being statesmen and women focused on the needs of the country rather than their personal power and wealth. The oft repeated dramatic creations of deadlines for continous resolutions and omnibus spending bills do nothing more than provide talking points for tv shows while our country is spending itself to ruin. We are following the same path of the previously fallen powerful nations. God has provided us many blessings in the past – when we began to believe our country does not need God, he will turn from us to have do as we see fit. Here is an explanation for the current chaos in Romans 1:28 “And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.”

Les Jones
Les Jones
6 years ago

The biggest single budget item is entitlement. The greatest waste is the fraud built in to the system. Fix it and the budget gets much healthier. No President, since Johnson started this wasteful program, has had the guts to fix it.

GARY PETERS
GARY PETERS
6 years ago

ALL of these are very important but immigration threatens the USAs’ very existence!

jlj
jlj
6 years ago

There are 535 members of Congress. Every single item/issue listed above is a priority. There enough men and women in Congress as well as the plethora of useless bureaucrats in the trenches/”sewer pipes to generate positive change. There are no reasons that all the above issues cannot be effectively addressed now. But, we know differently….

John
John
6 years ago

entitlement reform will take care of most of the other problems!

Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell
6 years ago

We should be able to select 3, 4 topics alone on subject X for future polls, OK AMAC.

McFerguson
McFerguson
6 years ago

Securing the border is my top priority. And I don’t mean “Immigration Reform” because that idea quickly is reduced to the tired and stale “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” which devolves into a massive all-inclusive amnesty program, followed by voting rights and entitlements to 20 million ILLEGALS that will never become law. I mean SECURE THE BORDER first. Period. It it takes a wall, BUILD A WALL. Once the border is thought to be secure, test it, evaluate it for at least a year and study the data to be sure its doing what it’s supposed to do to keep 300 thousand ILLEGALS from invading our country every year. In the meantime, we must ensure that all laws on the books dealing with the flow of immigrants into our country are being followed. Then, and only then, do we address the problem of which ILLEGALS are entitled to what “free stuff” provided from the hard working taxpayers of our country, and for how long.

Keith Shrum
Keith Shrum
6 years ago

I’d like to see Congress actually “work”. They should be required to work at least a 40-hour week with overtime being mandatory when an issue is urgent. Allow them only one or two weeks for campaigning for re-election! Their record should be their scorecard for re-election in their district. Just do SOMETHING instead of sucking up hard earned tax payer’s money!

Wayne F.Payne
Wayne F.Payne
6 years ago

Make country aware of how insane the Democratic Party has gotten. They have no positive answers for our country.

Timothy J Pitts
Timothy J Pitts
6 years ago

Imigration leads the news cycle and pushes the polls ahead of the national debt which is exponentially more critical to America

Debra Freeman
Debra Freeman
6 years ago

Sounds like they’re wasting time if they don’t change the majority rules #!

Carl S
Carl S
6 years ago

I reluctantly voted for Healthcare Reform. Too bad there wasn’t a choice for:

Prosecute Hillary Clinton, James Comey and others who committed serious crimes over the past 2 years.

Lynn b
Lynn b
6 years ago

If illegal immigration isn’t stopped, debt, entitlements and Healthcare can’t be changed.

John Bennett
John Bennett
6 years ago

Lock the doors so they can’t get back in!!!!!

Watson
Watson
6 years ago

All of those are important. I wish instead of just picking 1 we were allowed to number them in order of importance. I would say immigration, healthcare, infrastructure, entitlement and then national debt. The 1st 4 all affect the debt.

Tom aristide
Tom aristide
6 years ago

Heath insurance and reducing national debt and entitlement reform are all intertwined.

Danna Kenny
Danna Kenny
6 years ago

Actually ALL of the above…. AND build The Wall…..

G_LEGO47
G_LEGO47
6 years ago

What about winning the 2 018 election ?

Lynn
Lynn
6 years ago

It would be nice if the gutless Republicans in Congress would get behind President Trump’s agenda and push things through. It’s past time for many in Congress from both sides of the aisle to be put out to pasture!

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