ICYMI—Hagerty Joins Kudlow to Discuss Border Patrol Union Endorsing Trump, Harris’s Failed Border Policy

NEW YORK CITY - United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations, Banking, and Foreign Relations Committees, yesterday joined Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss the National Border Patrol Council endorsing President Trump, Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer's deceptive "border bill," illegal migrant taxpayer-funded flights, apartment complexes being overrun by Venezuelan gangs, and a preview of a second Trump Administration in the Senate.

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Hagerty on the National Border Patrol Council endorsing President Donald Trump: "Absolutely, they did. And the reason they did, is they know that he means what he says. This fake border bill that Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer put forward was simply a ruse. It was an opportunity for them to actually put more resources into more people into this country more [easily]. That's what it was looking to do […] It's high time that we did [secure the border], and President Trump is the only one that can get it done."

Hagerty on the taxpayer-funded illegal migrant flights: "It doesn't make any sense, and talking about the ones that we fly in here: I brought this to the floor of the Senate, and every single Democrat voted to continue using taxpayer dollars to support flights from places like Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, directly into our country, bypassing the borders and bringing illegal migrants into our country, into the cities of their choice. Every single Democrat voted to continue using taxpayer funds to do this. Last year, 320,000 people came in this way. This year, right here, it's over half a million so far."

Hagerty on apartment complexes being run by illegal Venezuelan gangs: "The partisan media are so out of touch, Larry. That she [ABC's Martha Raddatz] would even undertake that line of questioning with JD [Vance] just shows how out of touch they are, and they're so focused on debunking talking points and "disinformation." They're not focused on the real problems here right now […] It shouldn't be a single apartment complex [taken over] […] I can't imagine that she thinks this would be acceptable if it were her apartment complex that had been taken over by Venezuelan gangs."

Hagerty on a Republican Senate majority pushing a second Trump Agenda: "I've discussed with the number of people that are running for Senate leadership that the most important criteria from my perspective is their ability to get along with Donald Trump and lock arms in this agenda to make certain that the work that's going to take place with Executive Orders and the Executive Branch side is paired up. And I hope we'll be in a position to do reconciliation […] There are a number of people that have already announced that they're going to run: [John] Thune, [John] Cornyn. You've got Rick Scott as well who has already announced, and there may be others. But I think one of the key criteria again, is going to be making certain that we take the greatest advantage of this first 100 days, first 200 days, to really make it matter. And on the Senate side, getting appointments through, getting our nominees appointed right away[…] The tax package is going to be right on the agenda as you know, and you worked so hard on this before. If you think about what President Trump was able to accomplish back in 2017 with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and with the deregulatory thrust that he undertook, we're going to come back, and I hope see it on steroids this time and see our economy, you know, grow even stronger. Grow even better."

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