{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom-news-releases-barrasso-joins-nbcs-meet-the-press-to-talk-republicans-historic-election-wins/", "Barrasso Joins NBC\u2019s Meet The Press to talk Republicans\u2019 Historic Election Wins", "2024-11-10", "2024", "2024-11", "Republican", "Senate", "WY", "John Barrasso", "B001261", "www.barrasso.senate.gov", "barrasso", "https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom/news-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cAmerica \u2013 the people of this country \u2013 voted. They want to get this country back on track.\u201d\n\nSen. Barrasso joins NBC\u2019s Meet The Press with Kristen Welker on Sunday.\n\nCASPER, WY \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), appeared on NBC\u2019s Meet The Press to discuss Republicans\u2019 historic election wins, the Senate Republican Majority\u2019s legislative priorities, and the need to quickly put President-Elect Donald Trump\u2019s team in place.\n\nBelow are key excerpts from the interview:\n\nOn Republicans\u2019 Historic Election Victories and Mandate:\n\n\u201cWhat 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 \u2018comeback kid\u2019 \u2013 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 \u2013 we now have 53 Republican Senators. What that proves is America \u2013 the people of this country \u2013 voted. They want to get this country back on track.\n\n\u201cThe 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\u2019re going to start working on immediately. We\u2019ve 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.\n\n\u201cI expect to see the President put back in place the \u2018remain in Mexico\u2019 policy, stop this \u2018catch and release\u2019 policy.\u201d\n\nClick here to watch Sen. Barrasso\u2019s remarks on the 2024 Republican mandate.\n\nOn Getting President-Elect Trump\u2019s Team in Place:\n\n\u201cAnd the Senate also wants to work very quickly \u2013 actually before the inauguration \u2013 making sure the President\u2019s cabinet is in place. We\u2019re going to have hearings and votes so that on day one, January 20th, when the President takes over, he\u2019s 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\u2019m 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.\u201d\n\nClick here to watch Sen. Barrasso\u2019s remarks on President-Elect Trump\u2019s team.\n\nOn Securing Our Border and Deporting Criminal Illegal Immigrants:\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s 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\u2019t had that over the last four years. There are over ten million illegal immigrants in this country right now \u2013 and we\u2019re 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 \u2013 and you didn\u2019t get to this with the poll numbers \u2013 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\u2019s success \u2013 his overwhelming success \u2013 at the polls last Tuesday.\u201d\n\nClick here to watch Sen. Barrasso\u2019s remarks on securing our border.\n\nOn Stopping Democrat Tax Hikes:\n\n\u201cWe\u2019ve 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\u2019m on the Finance Committee \u2013 we have been meeting through the summer and the fall. In terms of saying, \u2018What 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\u2019s going out or hasn\u2019t gone out yet? \u2019 So we\u2019ve been working on this all the way through and we\u2019re going to continue to do that.\n\n\u201cNow, 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\u2019ve been working with Lindsey Graham \u2013 he\u2019ll be chairman of the Budget Committee in the Senate \u2013 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 [\u2026]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.\u201d\n\nClick here to watch Sen. Barrasso\u2019s remarks on Democrat tax hikes.\n\nOn President Trump\u2019s Historic Selection for White House Chief of Staff:\n\n\u201cAnd he\u2019s made one decision already \u2013 and that\u2019s putting Susie Wiles in as the Chief of Staff. That\u2019s a historic decision as well. She is the first woman Chief of Staff of the White House in history \u2013 President Trump has done that. She\u2019s terrific.\u201d\n\nClick here to watch Sen. 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