Home Majority Chief Steve Scalise, R-La., stated former President Donald Trump will transfer rapidly to tighten legal guidelines in opposition to unlawful immigration if he wins the White Home.
The No. 2 Home Republican chief informed Fox Information Digital that he met with Trump earlier this 12 months at Mar-a-Lago, the place the 2 mentioned priorities for the primary 100 days of a brand new administration – offered the GOP sweeps Congress and the White Home.
Among the many priorities, along with financial and vitality initiatives, is the scenario on the U.S.-Mexico border.
“President Trump can do a lot of issues on his personal that he has talked about,” Scalise stated Friday.
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Home Majority Chief Scalise, prime inset, spoke with Fox Information Digital about what the primary 100 days would seem like with a GOP Congress and White Home. (Getty Photographs)
He stated Trump would doubtless reinstate his Migrant Safety Protocols, higher often known as the “Stay in Mexico” coverage, which pressured asylum-seekers to attend on the Mexican aspect of the U.S. southwestern border whereas their instances had been being adjudicated. A number of human rights teams have criticized the coverage as inhumane, and the Biden administration dropped it in 2021.
Scalise additionally expects Trump to stop all “catch-and-release” insurance policies on the border.
“We all know that it is inflicting crime issues in each neighborhood, drug issues, the fentanyl that the drug cartels are bringing in,” Scalise stated.
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A Republican-majority Congress would help Trump’s crackdown, he stated, noting Capitol Hill’s position in funding federal initiatives and applications.
“Issues like constructing extra wall – that is one thing we labored with President Trump to do. We constructed over 500 miles of wall. Joe Biden ended that on day one,” Scalise stated.
“We additionally need to fund some extra instruments for our Border Patrol brokers, issues like drone capabilities, evening imaginative and prescient, in order that they will do a fair higher job of managing the border.”
Republicans would additionally roll again electrical car mandates, Home Majority Chief Steve Scalise urged. (Eric Thayer)
Different first 100-day priorities embrace rolling again electrical car mandates and setting new tax coverage – with key provisions in Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act set to run out in 2025.
Nevertheless, the Louisiana Republican was cautious to not over-project confidence within the closing days of the election. He famous that the Home majority would doubtless come right down to 40 to 45 key races out of 435 and {that a} GOP majority would doubtless be a slim 4 to 10 seats.
“These aren’t the times the place you possibly can have a 30-seat majority anymore due to redistricting and the way in which it is actually narrowed the map,” he stated. “However on the similar time, I imply, in the present day now we have a four-seat majority. We had truly dropped right down to a one-seat majority earlier this 12 months. So, you realize, if we’re capable of get it up near double digits, that might actually be a terrific evening for us.”
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Scalise himself has put in lots of of miles on the street in help of Republican candidates.
He raised $70 million this election cycle, with $15 million given to the Home GOP marketing campaign arm and $10.4 million to 206 particular person candidates and incumbents.
Scalise’s political crew stated he has visited not less than 140 totally different districts to marketing campaign for the 2024 cycle.
Home Majority Chief Steve Scalise has campaigned with each susceptible Republicans, like Rep. Jen Kiggans, and people in protected seats. (Scalise For Congress)
In October alone, the month earlier than Election Day, Scalise held 66 occasions throughout 28 states.
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Ought to Democrats win the Home majority, nonetheless, Scalise – the longest-serving member of Home GOP management – insisted he had no real interest in difficult Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., as the highest Home Republican.
When requested if he would entertain a bid for minority chief in opposition to Johnson if colleagues requested him to, Scalise firmly answered, “No.”
“We’re not speaking about what occurs if we lose the bulk, as a result of all of my focus is on not solely successful the bulk, however gaining seats. And anyone who’s fascinated by shedding or something like that’s simply misplaced of their focus,” he stated.
Fox Information Digital reached out to the Trump marketing campaign for remark.
