Evening Wire: Trump Rallies House GOP & Minimum Wage Hikes | 1.6.26
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What are the latest developments in President Trump's rally with House GOP?
President Trump rallies the House GOP as midterms ratchet up, minimum wage hikes up in several states, and Wagobe ditches the needle. I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, January 6th. This is Evening Wire.
President Trump met with House Republicans today as the party heads into a high-stakes midterm year with a narrowing majority. The gathering comes after the death of California Congressman Doug LaMalfa and the resignation of Marjorie Taylor Greene, further shrinking Speaker Mike Johnson's margin for error. Trump warned lawmakers that governing with a razor-thin majority makes it harder to push a tough agenda, urging unity as Republicans prepare votes on health care, taxes, and border policy. But even as the midterms loom large, the president still struck an optimistic tone.
Together, we had 12 months of unprecedented success in 2025, and now we're going to make history and break records with the epic midterm victory that we're going to pull off.
President Trump has clarified that the US is not at war with Venezuela, but rather with the people who intend to do harm to Americans. He added that while the US is going to help stabilize Venezuela so its people can vote in new leadership, it's going to take some time. The current plan is for US oil companies to rebuild the oil infrastructure, which he said could take less than 18 months.
Politically and racially charged proposals from New York City's new tenant director are drawing attention and raising major legal questions. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo has more.
Mayor Zoran Mamdani appointed Sia Weaver as director for the newly revived Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants. Weaver has outlined plans to transition private property in the city into a collective good, and she's singled out whites in the process. A resurfaced video of Weaver making this point has been making the rounds on social media. Here's a bit of that.
I think the reality is that for centuries, we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good. And transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently. And it will mean that... families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have.
This is not Weaver's only such statement. A tweet from June 13th, 2018 said, quote, seize private property. And in 2019, Weaver posted that private property, quote, including and kind of especially home ownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as wealth building public policy.
Beijing says it has banned exports to Japan of goods with potential military uses, ramping up tensions with China's neighbor. The new export controls come after Japan's conservative prime minister, Sanae Takeuchi, made comments about Taiwan that angered Beijing. She said in November that Japan could be dragged into a conflict to defend its allies if China decides to take military action against Taiwan. Meanwhile, Chinese nationalists online are trying to use the U.S. extradition of Nicolas Maduro to their advantage, asking why China couldn't conduct a similar operation in Taiwan.
In another ripple effect from the U.S. action in Venezuela, renewed calls have emerged for the acquisition of Greenland. Top Trump aide Stephen Miller spoke to CNN's Jake Tapper yesterday and affirmed the administration's interest in the island, especially given global security concerns and the Arctic region's strategic importance.
Greenland should be part of the United States. The president has been very clear about that. That is the formal position of the US government. There's no need to even think or talk about this in the context of a military operation. Nobody's gonna fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland.
The Danish prime minister pushed back on Monday, reiterating that Denmark is not interested in relinquishing its territory.
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