Newly-Minted Senate Majority Leader John Thune Promises to Act on Trump ‘Mandate’ with ‘Ambitious Agenda’

Newly-minted Senate Republican Leader John Thune (R-SD), who will assume the position of majority leader once the new class of senators is sworn in in January, held a press conference shortly after his election on Wednesday.

In his remarks, Thune promised to pursue an “ambitious agenda” to fulfill President-elect Donald Trump’s “mandate.”

“This Republican team is united. We are on one team. We are excited to reclaim the majority and to get to work with our colleagues in the House to enact President Trump’s agenda,” began Thune on Wednesday. “We have a mandate for the American people, a mandate not only to clean up the mess left by the Biden-Harris Schumer agenda, but also to deliver on President Trump’s priorities.”

He continued:

We will make sure that the president and his team have the tools and support that they need to enforce border security laws and to remove the violent criminals who are wreaking havoc in every one of our states. We will work to make America prosperous again by streamlining the bureaucratic machine and overturning costly Biden-Harris regulations. And we will work to restore American energy dominance, not just our energy security, but energy dominance, which will lower costs and bolster our national security. I’m excited to get to work with this team right away, and I want to thank my colleagues who place their faith in me to serve as leader and to those who are supporting another candidate. I promise to be a leader who serves the entire Republican conference. We will have an ambitious agenda, and we’ll take each and every Republican working together to be successful.

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