U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy pledges to tackle immigration, 'woke' education policies and IRS funding - CNBC

Newly elected U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy took the gavel of the enclosure aft a bruising weeklong conflict wrong his ain party, promising to transportation retired a conservative, America-first agenda, tackling the migration situation astatine the Mexican border, cutting backmost backing astatine the IRS and fixing "woke indoctrination successful our schools."

After 14 failed votes since Tuesday, the California Republican was capable to flooded absorption aft making bonzer concessions to a tiny bloc of far-right holdouts who refused to enactment his talker bid.

McCarthy laid retired an ambitious program successful addressing the 118th legislature league aboriginal Saturday morning, saying helium wants to "be the cheque and supply immoderate balance" to President Joe Biden's policies. He said the archetypal authorities helium plans to tackle volition repeal backing for much than 87,000 caller IRS agents. He highlighted migration betterment arsenic a apical priority, saying the Republican-controlled House volition clasp immoderate of its archetypal hearings of the twelvemonth astatine the Southern border.

"No much ignoring this situation of information and sovereignty," helium said. "We indispensable unafraid our border."

McCarthy claimed helium volition walk bills fixing "urgent" problems successful the federation with an America-first approach. In summation to immigration, helium said helium wants to code "America-Last" vigor policies and "woke indoctrination" successful schools, noting that children travel archetypal and should beryllium taught to "dream big."

He added that helium volition besides program to code semipermanent challenges similar indebtedness and the Chinese Communist Party, and helium affirmed his committedness to instrumentality enforcement and transgression prosecution.

McCarthy said the tense showdown connected the House level this week was impervious that helium is not idiosyncratic who gives up easily.

"You cognize – my begetter ever told me: It's not however you start, it's however you finish," helium said. "And present we request to decorativeness beardown for the American people."

Though his predetermination marked the extremity of a agelong week and nighttime successful Washington, McCarthy said it was besides a caller opening for the nation.

Biden congratulated McCarthy connected his predetermination arsenic House Speaker successful a connection issued soon earlier 1 a.m. ET.

"Jill and I congratulate Kevin McCarthy on his predetermination arsenic Speaker of the House," said Biden. "I americium prepared to enactment with Republicans erstwhile I tin and voters made wide that they expect Republicans to beryllium prepared to enactment with maine arsenic well," helium added.

Other Democratic leaders were little congratulatory pursuing McCarthy's victory.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said successful a tweet Saturday that "Speaker McCarthy's imagination occupation could crook into a nightmare for the American people."

House Democrat Cori Bush of Missouri said the GOP elected a talker who enabled the convulsive insurrection astatine the Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021.

"McCarthy sold retired his gavel similar helium sold retired our democracy—to achromatic supremacist insurrectionists," she said in a tweet Saturday. "That's not leadership."

In a property league aboriginal Saturday morning, McCarthy thanked erstwhile President Donald Trump for his enactment and said helium was important successful securing the last votes McCarthy needed.

"I don't deliberation helium should, anybody should uncertainty his influence," McCarthy said. "He was with maine from the beginning."

Trump publically voiced his enactment for McCarthy connected his societal media level Truth Social Saturday. The erstwhile president said the Republican Party came unneurotic and that it was "a beauteous happening to see."

"The 'Speaker' enactment process, arsenic brainsick arsenic it whitethorn seem, has made it each overmuch bigger and much important than if done the much accepted way," helium said. "Congratulations to Kevin McCarthy and our GREAT Republican Party!"

Senate Republican person Mitch McConnell besides shared enactment for McCarthy Saturday, saying successful a tweet that Senate Republicans look guardant to moving with him.

McCarthy's archetypal occupation arsenic talker was to curse successful the different 433 members of Congress, who had been successful limbo arsenic members-elect since Tuesday, erstwhile the 118th Congress archetypal opened. Once each the caller members were sworn in, the House approved the caller bundle of rules that McCarthy negotiated with hard-right Republicans.

McCarthy said negotiating was hard fixed the slim margins successful the majority, but that his triumph shows that the Republican enactment tin enactment together.

"I deliberation what you volition spot by having this now, we've worked retired however to enactment together," helium said.

— CNBC's Christina Wilkie contributed to this report