Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) on Sunday outlined what Senate Republicans will aim to do during President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.
Barrasso made the remarks during an interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker on “Meet The Press” while recapping Trump’s victory last week.
“The biggest comeback, politically, in the history of our country,” Barrasso said. “You know, they used to call Bill Clinton ‘the comeback kid.’ Donald Trump is the comeback king. He has come back from two impeachments, from being dragged through the courts, from getting shot and he won with over 300 electoral votes, a majority of the people, winning all these demographic areas.”
He said that Republicans would immediately focus on fighting high costs and closing the southern border.
“We’ve been working with the transition team on those things,” he said. “Now, there are some things that the president can do as soon as he takes office, in terms of making some U-turns on these bad policies of the current administration, in terms of unleashing American energy, in terms of the policies with the border, reversing so many of these executive orders that were put in place four years ago.”
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“I expect to see the president put back in place the Remain in Mexico policy, stop this catch-and-release policy,” he continued. “And the Senate also wants to work very quickly — actually, before the inauguration — on making sure the president’s Cabinet is in place. We’re going to have hearings and votes so that on Day One, January 20, when the president takes over, he’s going to have as much of the Cabinet in place as we can get.”
“And he met huge resistance in 2016 and when he was inaugurated in 2017 with getting his Cabinet in place,” he concluded. “What I’m hoping is that as a result of this huge landslide victory, that we get a little more cooperation from the Democrats in helping President Trump get that Cabinet in place for Day One.”
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The people of America voted to get this country back on track.@SenateGOP is ready to tackle what Americans care about most – high costs and the open border.
We’ve been working with @realDonaldTrump‘s transition team to get to work on day one. pic.twitter.com/hs6wp8ouTZ
— Sen. John Barrasso (@SenJohnBarrasso) November 10, 2024