SEN JOHN THUNE: First 100 days of GOP Senate majority has accomplished much, and here's what is coming next

Saturday marked 100 days of the caller Republican bulk successful the U.S. Senate, and we’ve been keeping our ft connected the gas. We’ve spent 13 weeks successful session, including the longest continuous play of league successful 15 years, and the Senate has taken much votes astatine this constituent than successful immoderate different Congress since astatine slightest the Reagan era.

We person a batch to amusement for it. We confirmed the president’s Cabinet astatine the fastest gait successful much than 20 years, contempt Democratic obstruction, and we are gathering retired the remainder of President Donald Trump’s squad astatine a brisk pace. As of this week, the Senate has confirmed much than 50 Trump nominees, including a caller FBI director, a caller president of the Joint Chiefs, and respective ambassadors to cardinal postings abroad.

And confirmations are far from the lone happening we’ve done. We passed Sen. Katie Britt’s, R-Ala., Laken Riley Act, which ensures that amerciable immigrants who steal, battle a instrumentality enforcement officer, oregon termination oregon earnestly injure different idiosyncratic are detained alternatively of being allowed backmost retired connected the street. And we passed Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Bill Cassidy’s, R-La., HALT Fentanyl Act to supply instrumentality enforcement with captious tools to combat this deadly drug.  

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and President Donald Trump (Reuters)

We’ve besides been moving to repeal burdensome Biden-era regulations. The Senate has truthful acold passed 7 Congressional Review Act resolutions to rotation backmost Biden rules. Among different things, we’ve repealed the Biden administration’s taxation connected earthy gas, taken enactment to support Americans’ fiscal freedom, and repealed burdensome mandates connected household appliances that got caught up successful the Biden administration’s clime agenda.

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Importantly, we’ve besides laid the groundwork for a imperishable hold of the 2017 taxation alleviation and a transformational concern successful our border, vigor and nationalist security. I’m arrogant of the relation the Senate has played successful advancing this process, and I’m looking guardant to finishing the last bill.

I should besides enactment that the database of our accomplishments would person been adjacent longer if Democrats had not repeatedly filibustered commonsense legislation. Yes, the enactment that specified months agone was making plans to destruct the filibuster – a cardinal Senate regularisation that contiguous helps sphere the Founders’ imaginativeness of the Senate – is present utilizing it repeatedly. 

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Democrats person filibustered authorities to support biologic men retired of women’s sports, support babies calved live aft botched abortions, and authorisation the rogue International Criminal Court, which is targeting Israeli leaders contiguous and has a past of targeting American citizens.

With arsenic overmuch arsenic we’ve already accomplished, there’s a batch much enactment to beryllium done, and we’ll proceed to support our ft connected the gas. There are appropriations bills to consider, much burdensome regulations to repeal, and enactment to beryllium done to implicit the last measure that volition present connected our promises connected taxes, borderline security, strengthening our military, unleashing American energy, and getting our state connected a much sustainable fiscal path.

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There are besides much nominations to consider, and the Senate volition proceed to support up a brisk pace. If Democrats determine to obstruct nominees, that isn’t going to mean we dilatory down; it means we are going to support senators present longer to get these confirmations done. If that means precocious nights oregon weekends, truthful beryllium it. As I said to my Democrat colleagues, we tin bash these nominations the casual mode oregon the hard way.  But 1 mode oregon different we are going to get them done.

It’s been a engaged 100 days successful the United States Senate, and I’m looking guardant to delivering much results for the American radical arsenic Senate Republicans, House Republicans, and the White House proceed to enactment unneurotic to beforehand our shared agenda.  

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