Harrisburg – while the tariffs of President Donald Trump sent shock waves through the stock market and fears of commercial wars in the entire global economy, the Republicans at the largest GOP meeting on Friday in Pennsylvania were largely disturbing – and in the mode of celebration.
During the leadership conference in Pennsylvania, the annual meeting of republican leaders in Harrisburg, legislators and bottom -up party members praised Trump’s executive activities and his federal government shock through the Edishction of government of Elon Musk Elon Musk. They also swore that they continued to build Trump’s rush, because the democratic party remains unpopular and sharply criticized the democratic governor Josh Shapiro, who is ready for re -election next year.
“I feel excited, because as a party we are here as a winner,” said treasurer Stacy Garrita, who received the most votes of every candidate in the whole country in the history of Pennsylvania in the November election and we are considered the leader of the governorate race in 2026.
The conference was the first enormous meeting of the party since its maturation of the November victory and showed the desire for Republicans from Pennsylvania to support the vision of Trump with a significantly reduced federal government, even, as they said, if it requires tiny periods of discomfort from economic markets.
US Senator Dave McCormick, in a pre -recorded video interview with a columnist Washington Examiner, Belena Zito because of his American Senate schedule, described the last months of rapid administrative change as matching urgency that, according to Trump, felt after surviving attempt to murder in a bouther last year. McCormick was on stage with Trump on the rally of the campaign at Butler Farm Show Grounds moments before shooting the shooter.
“Everything he does … just said that he intends to do. So no person in Pennsylvania or all over the country should be surprised,” said McCormick. “And I think there is a sense of the spiritual side that he thinks that something really is happening is happening. I certainly feel that way.”
American representative. Dan Meuser, (R., Lucerna) joked in defense of the aggressive executive activities of the administration.
“There is an old saying that you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette, so I think we saw a few eggs,” said Meuser. “And I have a theory, maybe that’s why the price of eggs is so high.”
There was also stronger defense of administrative changes and dog.
“Doge is based on the technology of a country on the country on the edge of the fiscal breakdown,” said radio host Chris Stigall to start the conference on Friday. “And if the dog succeeds, this can be the greatest financial achievements since the founding vision of Alexander Hamilton, I think it is so important.”
Ned Ryun, a conservative activist and founder of the American Fouta training organization, said he was not interested in “running”.
“I want it to break into a million pieces. This is the only way we win,” he said. “Because waste, fraud and abuse are a poisonous fruit of a poisonous tree, and a poisonous tree is an administrative state.”
Ryun said he hopes that Doge, which already reduces 216,000 federal employee work, still reduces his labor force.
“Remove them from a federal role so that they will never come back. This is just the beginning. And then you will close the Education Department, and you blow up the building, and you build your heroes’ garden over it,” he said.
These positive feelings towards dog and musk stretched in the crowd, because several participants stated that they support previous musk work.
“[Musk] She was a pleasant surprise, “said Judy Zabel, a resident of Pennsylvania since 2020, who lives outside of scranton.
In the conference, which takes place on Saturday, some of the nervous GOP winners, such as the state senator Joe Picozzi, the first Republican representing the parts of Philadelphia in the State Senate for two decades, who sat on the panel about reaching juvenile voters.
“You must bring it to people,” said Picozzi. “You must have a confirming message about what the future will look here in your area, here, on your block.”
Mixed news about the unity of the house
US representative Rob Bresnahan, who denied the long -term democratic representative of Matt Cartwright in the north -eastern Pennsylvania, described Republicans from Washington in comments on Friday afternoon as largely in Lockstep.
“I will say that most of the Republicans are united,” he said. “I mean they are in a blockade. We all know that we have a plan, we have a mission that we must achieve.”
But the US representative Scott Perry (R., York), displayed the battle in his comments on Saturday morning after the Senate at the end of Friday released a correction for a budget resolution at home.
The Senate’s response includes trillions of dollars in eternal tax breaks and recent money for national security, but a fraction of cuts of expenses present in the House Act, which passed last month.
Perry said that he did not support the Senate Act in his current version with only $ 4 billion guaranteed in federal expenses compared to USD 1.5 trillion in the house.
“No, I’m not voting for it,” said Perry. “They will try to put pressure, with the help of the president, home members, agree to this as one large, beautiful bill.” But Perry said that he considers it a decisive voice in terms of the country’s fiscal health.
“We are in the United States of America in an instant, where you and I have a moment to save the country and all this.”
Meuser did not say how he would vote for the Senate Act, but he mentioned it as part of a series of positive steps forward in the agenda of Trump.
Tariff waving
Several participants of the conference on Friday largely shrugged the arms of the tariffs of rattling markets when companies are preparing for the unknown.
“I listen to President Trump and I have no reason to believe that he would not tell us the truth,” said Joe Phillips from Berks, noting that Trump’s tariffs react to the way other countries treat American imports.
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“He says,” No, do you want to value us? “What the hell is wrong with it? I am for it.”
The speakers mostly avoided the subject, and when they did this, they repeated Trump’s philosophy that the adaptation period would lead to long -term benefits.
“Over the past 25 years, free trade has been equivalent to unfair trade for the United States of America, and we improve it, and we repair it during Trump,” said Meuser. “Markets have difficulty dealing with this deal, but it has fingers on the pulse of this situation and I believe that it will work.”
Stigall, a conservative radio host, said similarly that although Trump’s commercial movements will cause “some market volatility, a short -term discomfort … The fact is that the country needs more jobs because AI comes and comes to us strongly and quickly.”
