Conservatives on X are blasting what they see as a do-nothing Republican Congress endangering a popular GOP president’s bold agenda.

“Predicting the midterms is easy,” writes Phillip Buchanan who, as X poster “catturd” has 3.7 million followers. “If Republicans codify  Trump’s agenda, unite, and stand behind the President, they’ll win a landslide.

“If Republicans continue to do what they’re doing, which is going against Trump’s Cabinet picks, being worthless and lazy, and doing nothing to help Trump, they’ll lose in a landslide.

“It’s almost like they want to lose.”

Buchanan not only speaks to many, he speaks for many: conservatives on X are in near uprising over the Republican Congress’s failure to urgently pursue President Trump’s agenda – by codifying drug price reductions, border security, promised tax cuts and more.

They say the House is out of session too much and the Senate is tied up in knots with Democrat machinations, while they’re losing patience with Senate Majority Leader John Thune.

But there is much work going on under the surface, and members of Congress are working harder than it appears, says Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt.

“Look, as somebody that grew up in a working-class neighborhood, I’m not afraid of hard work,” Schmitt tells The Heartlander in an exclusive interview Wednesday. “And I think that we need to do everything we can to deliver on President Trump’s agenda.”

“A lot of the legislative efforts that people want to see get done to deliver on President Trump’s campaign promises are in the one big, beautiful bill, which is in the House right now. They’re working on it this week. I would expect they would vote on it probably next week. 

“Their intention is to be done by Memorial Day, which would give the Senate June, with our July 4th kind of deadline to get it done. I think that would be a good thing for us to move expeditiously. 

“I would point out, though, that the Senate has actually been working more days [than] since the 1980s. I mean, again, we can always do more, but we’re getting more confirmations done than in the last, I think, three or four presidencies. 

“So we’re focused on it. We’re in the personnel business. The Democrats are not making it easy for us, but we’re going to keep grinding and get these people done, get these people approved.”

Many conservatives are concerned that, if Republicans blow the “big, beautiful” tax bill, Democrats could see a resurgence and perhaps even retake the House in next year’s midterm elections.

How important are the pending tax cuts to Republican fortunes and Trump’s embryonic populist revolution?

“They’re really important,” Schmitt argues. “The issue here is that it’s preventing a $4 trillion tax increase, which is nearly 2,000 bucks per family. 

“And so, it’s probably not going to get the same headlines when you institute it, but it nevertheless is very important to keep in place and make permanent, which is what the focus is. Anything we can do to make life easier for working families who send too much of their money to the federal government and is wasted on things like USAID, that’s what we want to focus on. 

“I know that’s my focus, and also providing some more educational opportunities. I’m working with other senators and representatives to expand 529 access for college, and also expand school choice for parents who, regardless of the ZIP code, want a good education for their kids. 

“And so, there’s a lot of moving parts here that relate to the kind of lifting the tide of working class families.”

Conservatives also are skeptical of Republicans’ determination in dealing with naked lawbreaking by leftists – including perhaps the Democrats who stormed the ICE facility recently and arguably obstructed federal officials in the line of duty.

Will they be held accountable the way Democrats held every conservative accountable for every perceived misstep during the four years of Biden?

“I hope so,” Schmitt says. “It’s just amazing to watch them. You know, you never know what’s going to happen every week. But you know something stupid is going to happen. They’re just out of their minds, many of them, and they don’t know how to handle the defeat from November.  

“You know, just another little example: Yesterday on the Senate floor, it’s not storming an ICE facility, but we tried to get the ambassador for the Vatican approved in time to be there for the installation of the pope this weekend, and the Democrats blocked that. 

“We’ll get it done, but it won’t get done in time for that event. And I just think they’re being blinded by Trump Derangement syndrome, and it’s going to play out in a bunch of different ways that we’ve not even seen yet. So stay tuned.”

Judging ‘President Autopen’

In other news, new revelations show the coverup of Joe Biden’s mental deterioration was deeper and more brazen than first known – with aides having been warned that he could very well have served a second term in a wheelchair.

Schmitt said Americans have essentially already passed judgment on the coverup with Trump’s election.

“I think people ought to be held accountable, in the sense that anybody with half a brain saw what was going on. But they were willing to cover it up to stay in power. That’s the truth. …

“The media allies who just didn’t want Trump to ever get back in, they were willing to go along with this – a guy who was mentally not with it. But they were willing to do it. And then you had President Autopen signing off on one crazy thing after another that some staffer who was probably a gender studies major at an Ivy League school, thought was a good idea. 

“So, it really was an embarrassment. It probably rivals Woodrow Wilson, what happened then, 100 years earlier. 

“Two of probably the worst presidents we’ve ever had.  

“I think the American people kind of weighed in here. They saw it. They rejected it. And thank God we got President Trump back in office.”

Schmitt also commented, if ever so succinctly, on the Democrats’ curious opposition to rescuing white South African farmers/refugees from an increasingly genocidal climate.

Why the opposition to these white refugees, after taking in 20 million or more largely nonwhite illegal immigrants under Biden? Are these farmers to blame for apartheid?

“No,” Schmit says, adding only, “but I do think you’re now seeing the first immigrant group that Democrats don’t welcome to the country. And I think we know why.”