Barrasso Joins NBC’s Meet The Press to talk Republicans’ Historic Election Wins

November 10, 2024

Barrasso Joins NBC's Meet The Press to talk Republicans' Historic Election Wins

CASPER, WY - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), appeared on NBC's Meet The Press to discuss Republicans' historic election wins, the Senate Republican Majority's legislative priorities, and the need to quickly put President-Elect Donald Trump's team in place.

Below are key excerpts from the interview:

On Republicans' Historic Election Victories and Mandate:

"What you saw there really was an earthquake election. The biggest comeback politically in the history of our country. You know, they used to call Bill Clinton the 'comeback kid' - Donald Trump is the Comeback King. He has comeback 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. And you know, he brought us four new Republican Senators - we now have 53 Republican Senators. What that proves is America - the people of this country - voted. They want to get this country back on track.

"The mandate are the two things that people care the most about, which is the high costs and the open border. And those are the things we're going to start working on immediately. We've been working with the transition team on those things. Now, there are some things that the President can do as soon as he takes office in terms of making some new 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.

"I expect to see the President put back in place the 'remain in Mexico' policy, stop this 'catch and release' policy."

Click here to watch Sen. Barrasso's remarks on the 2024 Republican mandate.

On Getting President-Elect Trump's Team in Place:

"And the Senate also wants to work very quickly - actually before the inauguration - making sure the President's cabinet is in place. We're going to have hearings and votes so that on day one, January 20th, 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 when he was inaugurated in 2017 with getting his cabinet in place. 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."

Click here to watch Sen. Barrasso's remarks on President-Elect Trump's team.

On Securing Our Border and Deporting Criminal Illegal Immigrants:

"There's no price tag on protecting the safety and security of our country and our citizens. President Trump is going to enforce the law, and we haven't had that over the last four years. There are over ten million illegal immigrants in this country right now - and we're talking about people who are from criminal cartels, drug dealers, people on the terrorist watch list. These are people who are here in this country who have been murdering, raping, poisoning our citizens, and what the President said is he wants to prioritize and go after those people first to deport those individuals. But Kristen, if you take a look - and you didn't get to this with the poll numbers - the number of people that support deporting these individuals, it is a supermajority of Americans. And I believe it had a lot to do with the President's success - his overwhelming success - at the polls last Tuesday."

Click here to watch Sen. Barrasso's remarks on securing our border.

On Stopping Democrat Tax Hikes:

"We've been working with the transition team. And I will tell you in the hopes that we took the presidency, the House, and the Senate, members of the Senate have been meeting. I'm on the Finance Committee - we have been meeting through the summer and the fall. In terms of saying, 'What can we do? How can we make sure we can continue these tax cuts from 2017 and extend them and make them permanent? What sort of things can we claw back from some of the excessive spending that the Democrats have done in terms of money that's going out or hasn't gone out yet? ' So we've been working on this all the way through and we're going to continue to do that.

"Now, first, as you know, this is something we would do through reconciliation, so we have to win the House to make it happen and pass a budget. But we've been working with Lindsey Graham - he'll be chairman of the Budget Committee in the Senate - to make sure we can accomplish as much as we possibly can to give the tax relief that the American people deserve and need. And we know that it was all this massive spending by the last administration that gave us this inflation that hurt the country so much […]What we know is when we cut taxes last time, the amount of money coming into the Treasury actually went up. It stimulated the economy less burden on businesses, less burden on families and individuals."

Click here to watch Sen. Barrasso's remarks on Democrat tax hikes.

On President Trump's Historic Selection for White House Chief of Staff:

"And he's made one decision already - and that's putting Susie Wiles in as the Chief of Staff. That's a historic decision as well. She is the first woman Chief of Staff of the White House in history - President Trump has done that. She's terrific."

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