Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has declared that President Donald Trump’s progress on securing the U.S.-Mexico border has been “mind-blowing” and “staggering.”
Thune praised Trump’s “success” on immigration during a long interview with Breitbart News.
The interview was filmed last week in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., as Breitbart News reported.
“I think you have to—what he’s had so far, it’s hard to characterize it as anything but just a staggering success,” Thune said during his interview.
“It is—you look at what they were under Biden a year ago, you’re talking about 10,000 or 11,000 a day and now we’re down to 200 a day, it is almost mind-blowing in terms of how much difference the leadership of President and the White House has made over Biden’s open borders policy.”
The lawmaker said he expects the president to continue to push resources toward Border Patrol agents and supply needed money for the wall and detention beds:
“All of those things needed to continue to secure the border.”
According to Thune, Senate Republicans would work as “partners” with Trump to further secure the border and provide him with additional funding to do so.
In the current proposal being worked on by Congress, he assured that a “generational investment in border security” will be included in the Trump agenda.
“We are going to be partners with him,” Thune said.
“In the reconciliation bill, we’re working on—we have a generational investment in border security that the president will be able to use as a tool to continue to get that job done.”
The measure soon to hit the Senate floor will likely include immigration restrictions, but Thune said Congress will also push for more funding to enhance energy production.
Thune also had harsh words for Senate Democrats for unanimously opposing Trump’s emergency declaration on energy production.
He stated that Republicans are poised to provide Trump with more money to enhance energy output.
The lawmaker said the Democrats’ response to energy-related topics is an example of how the Democratic Party is being held “hostage” by the far Left.
“Voting against an energy emergency in this country when we clearly have an energy emergency—you look at just as an example electricity, you have artificial intelligence, you got data centers, you got crypto mines, all of these things are incredibly power-intensive, and then of course the Democrats wanted to have everybody already driving electric vehicles,” Thune said.
In addition, Thune emphasized the Senate GOP’s efforts to eliminate Biden’s regulations by employing the Congressional Review Act (CRA).
“The Biden administration, as you could expect, characteristically relied heavily on the use of regulations to implement their agenda,” Thune said.
“A lot of their agenda, of course, was the Green New Deal.
“It was a lot of their climate agenda.”
