On the recordFebruary 5, 2025
I rise today to talk about the impressive pace by which this body is confirming President Trump's nominees to important Cabinet positions, to fulfill his agenda and his promises to the American people. I think it is important to take a step back. November is a few months now in the rearview mirror, but President Trump completed the greatest political comeback in American history. The Democrats did everything they could, including trying to jail him and bankrupt his family, to prevent him from stepping foot in the Oval Office--never again. Well, guess what. On January 20, as we stood in that Rotunda, he completed that journey back--a journey that was highlighted by a reform agenda. So what we see happening right now that the legacy media and my Democrat friends are losing their minds on every day was every single thing that he talked about: securing our border, being energy dominant, restoring accountability back in government, restoring our place on the world stage, after 4 years of humiliation, 4 years of lawlessness. And just to give a few examples that the Supreme Court weighed in on, the student loan debt forgiveness scam--President Biden had no ability to do that. And I do find it interesting that my Democrat colleagues are, all of a sudden, talking about things that Presidents can and can't do. Imperial Biden, with a stroke of his pen, tried to wipe out half a trillion dollars' worth of student loan debt. They were sued.…





