01.24.25

Thune Joins Sean Hannity on Fox News

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) joined Sean Hannity on Fox News.

On Republicans’ agenda:

“I think a limited, smaller, more efficient, more effective government has always been an aspiration of Republicans. And what I’ve noticed in the time I’ve been here is, every spending fight that we have, Democrats want to spend more, Republicans want to spend less. And because of the rules in the Senate, which require 60 votes and some Democrats to get anything done, it’s harder to squeeze spending, but I think we have, as you point out, a unique opportunity here. We have the House, Senate, and White House, and unified control of the government. We can use reconciliation to do some of these things, and we ought to be looking as hard as we can through DOGE and other ways of doing that, and of course, including Congress, and the role we play in all this, to try and reduce the size of government and reduce what, in my view, is the consolidation and centralization of power in Washington. I’m a big believer in distributed power.”

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“And you know, the president, obviously, now he’s in charge, and it’s a great feeling to have him back in the Oval Office and be able to work with somebody who shares the objectives. And we have a shared vision for where we want to go for the country. He wants to, obviously, renew American energy dominance. He wants to secure the border. He wants to rebuild our military. He wants to strengthen our economy, make sure that we don’t have a $4.5 trillion tax increase at the end of the year. So these are all things that we agree on. And just the EOs in the first day, I mean, the tremendous amount of action he’s already taken, and I think the people across the country are reacting really well to it. So a lot of it today was kind of about how we get there. So it’s the, you know, strategy, the tactics, etc. But we’re all heading in the same direction.”

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“We’ve got a president who came in with a big mandate. We clearly have things we need to do to just respond to what the American people are telling us and told us in this election, and that is that they’re tired of this left-leaning, progressive – when it comes to energy, when it comes to the economy, when it comes to cultural issues. You know this idea of, you know, boys playing girls sports. I think, you know, 90 percent of the American public says that’s just wrong, and the Democrats seem to be clinging to that, some of those views. And I think that – so, I don’t think – no matter where you come from in the country, I think a lot of what President Trump campaigned on, a lot of what we want to accomplish, I think, is going to be a winning issue.”

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