Speaker Johnson Op-ed in USA Today: The GOP Has Delivered

WASHINGTON — This morning, Speaker Johnson published an op-ed in USA Today highlighting House Republicans’ historic accomplishments during the 119th Congress and the contrast between common sense vs. crazy in the closing days of the midterms. “As I've campaigned across the country, I've met thousands of Americans who will never forget what a disaster the Democrats made of public policy,” Speaker Johnson wrote. “They remember being silenced as left-wing ideologues wrecked their schools and communities, censored their speech, mocked their faith and traditions, and tried to erase our history. They won't be discouraged by unreliable polls or by pundits declaring that these elections are destined to be won by the party opposing the president.” Read the op-ed here or below: The GOP Has Delivered Democrats have bent the knee to their far-left wing. Even a narrow Democratic House would be held hostage by the DSA, and France offers a preview of where that could lead. Op-ed by Speaker Mike Johnson USA Today October 30, 2026 Throughout our nation's history, midterm elections have normally been a referendum on the president. But these are not normal times. In these pivotal midterms on Nov. 3, voters face a much larger choice between two completely different visions for America. One seeks to preserve and strengthen the foundations that made our nation great, while the other seeks to tear them down. One wants to build, the other to destroy. Our framers understood that a truly free and prosperous people must embrace and maintain essential first principles: individual liberty, limited government, the rule of law and the inherent dignity of every person. We have not always lived up to those principles, but our constant pursuit of them made America the freest, strongest and most prosperous nation in human history – and it is why we remain so. Democrats have bent the knee to the far left Tragically, today's Democratic Party no longer seeks to preserve our foundations but to dismantle them. Since a far-left socialist insurgency overwhelmed the party's centrist wing, even the old-guard Democrats in Congress have been forced to bend the knee to the socialists. The shift didn't take place overnight. "Woke" Democrats promised that defunding the police would make communities safer. Under President Joe Biden, they took long strides further left, arguing that opening the border would somehow enrich American communities. They insisted that boys could be girls and girls could be boys, and that the only remedy for perceived discrimination in our schools, our boardrooms and our government was actual discrimination. In four years, the Democrats' endless mandates, trillions in new spending and 40-year-high inflation crushed family budgets. As I've campaigned across the country, I've met thousands of Americans who will never forget what a disaster the Democrats made of public policy. They remember being silenced as left-wing ideologues wrecked their schools and communities, censored their speech, mocked their faith and traditions, and tried to erase our history. They won't be discouraged by unreliable polls or by pundits declaring that these elections are destined to be won by the party opposing the president. House Republicans understand that to win the midterms, we need to defy history. But we also understand that 2026 is different. It presents an unprecedented and fateful question: Will we reject and tear down the American system, or will we keep building on what made our nation the most exceptional the world has ever seen? Republicans have delivered Republicans have chosen to build. In this Congress, thanks to legislation like the Working Families Tax Cuts, Americans are keeping more of what they earn. We ensured an average $10,900 boost in take-home pay for a family of four through no tax on tips and overtime, a bigger standard deduction, an expanded child tax credit and tax relief for buyers of American-made cars. We created the first-ever nationwide school choice program to empower parents, and we launched Trump Accounts, opening an investment account that grows with the stock market to children born between 2025 and 2028. We cut $1.6 trillion in wasteful federal spending and are unleashing American energy dominance after years of Democratic efforts to choke off domestic production and phase out fossil fuels. As a result, more than a million private-sector jobs have been added, and American manufacturing is coming home as pro-growth policies work in concert with President Donald Trump’s reshoring agenda. Despite Democrats forcing three government shutdowns, including the longest in U.S. history, Republicans delivered historic results in two years with the slimmest House majority since the Great Depression. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party keeps pushing further left and courting a new generation of voters energized by the Democratic Socialists of America and its false promise of a progressive utopia. DSA is proud of the platform it published, calling for eradicating our borders and prisons, granting mass amnesty to illegal immigrants in perpetuity, abolishing the Senate, and replacing both the presidency and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary handpicked by a DSA-run Congress. And it's not just the fringes of the party embracing these insane ideas. Party leaders are making room for them, too. The top Democrats in Congress are welcoming these candidates into their "big tent." A Democratic victory in the midterms would inevitably cede unprecedented power to this growing socialist cadre, whose stated aim is to remake the party and end the free market system. Old-school Democratic strategist James Carville admitted he'd rather Republicans keep the House than Democrats win it by five, because his party would be "hostage to the DSA." On this, Carville is right. For a preview of where that road leads, just look at France. The violent riots rocking the country – the smashing of buildings and cars, the looting of hundreds of shops, the torching of a historic town hall in Limoges – are not the “peaceful demonstrations” of disgruntled students or a French people who simply “love to protest.” The crisis there is the inevitable result of decades of catastrophically misguided policy choices: lax immigration and border enforcement, suffocating regulation and government largesse that has stagnated growth, stifled innovation and driven debt to a staggering 119% of GDP. By abandoning the principles of assimilation and fiscal restraint, French leaders have allowed their once-great nation to be looted and burned by far-left radicals who hate it. The chaos unfolding in France is a dark harbinger of what could happen here if Democrats take back the House. What generations built over centuries can be torn down in a few years – but only if we allow it. May God help us not make that mistake. ###