On Sunday, House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union.” During an exchange with host Dana Bash, McCarthy defended the direction in which the Republican Party is going:
BASH: Let’s move on to what your former colleague, the former Speaker of the House John Boehner, said this week. Take a listen.
[Bash then played a clip in which Boehner states: “There’s no Republican Party. There’s a Trump party. The Republican Party is kind of taking a nap somewhere.”]
BASH: You worked very closely with John Boehner – you were his number two in the House, and there’s no doubt that the Republican Party has changed over the years. Do you think it’s changed for the better?
MCCARTHY: Well, I would think it changed for the better because let’s first look at the facts, Dana. We’re at 3.8% unemployment – this ties a 50-year low in America. African American[s] and women are at the lowest in unemployment. Unemployment claims are at a 44-year low. The GI Bill is now no longer 15 years or you lose it. It’s now for a lifetime.
Human trafficking – the modern day slavery – we actually eliminated that process when it comes to online, where 70% of that is being used.
Look what we’re doing in two weeks here. 70 different bills when it comes to opioid; rebuilding the military. And then one thing we’ve never even talked about [in] this discussion – come June 12, North Korea is sitting down talking about dismantling their nuclear weapons.
So, you know what? I’m proud of this Republican Party. I’m proud of what we’ve been able to achieve. Two million more jobs in America. Yes, we are working hard, exactly what we said we would do. That is a proud Republican Party; that is a Party that stands on their principles. That is part of what we ran on; that is part of what we said we would do. And you know what? We’re accomplishing it.