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President Trump rallies the House GOP as midterms ratchet up minimum wage hikes up in several states. And Wegovy ditches the needle. I'm Daily Wire Executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, January 6th. This is Evening Wire.
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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.
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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.
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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 Presto Giacomo 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, is that for centuries we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good. And we are going to 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 as 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 13, 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.
