NASHVILLE, TN—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking, Foreign Relations, and Appropriations Committees and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, yesterday joined Hannity on Fox News to discuss President Donald Trump’s economic mandate and the Senate’s need to quickly confirm President Trump’s cabinet nominees.
Partial Transcript
Hagerty on President Trump’s economy and the role of the Federal Reserve: “President Trump certainly has a mandate that we’ve never seen before from the American people coming into office right now. He’s got a massive mandate, and the very foundation of this Sean, is a strong economy. A strong economy will beget our military being stronger. It’ll beget safety at our border, and certainly it will help us around the world with diplomacy. And what President Trump is entitled to, is to have everybody pulling the oars in the same direction to strengthen our economy. He should take a very hard look at the Fed. I can tell you even beyond Chairman Powell, you’ve got Vice Chair [Michael] Barr, who’s very much overstepped his boundaries as the Vice Chairman of Supervision, stepping into regulatory arenas that are way outside of his mandate. This all needs to be reined in. Again, our economy is going to be the foundation of it. Getting back into the energy business again will be the foundation of it. But what we will see is a strong America, and as I say, everyone should be pulling in the right direction. That includes the Chairman of the Fed.”
Hagerty on the Senate confirming President Trump’s cabinet nominees: “Yeah, we absolutely should, Sean, and you can see this coming from a mile away. The American public have voted to take our nation back. They want radical change to take place. That’s precisely what elites in Washington do not want to see. That’s why you’re seeing this resistance. That’s why you’re seeing all the pearl-clutching going on in the media. President Trump needs to put in place a team that’s going to help him make this transformation possible. That’s exactly why we’re seeing this. But this Republican Senate needs to stand behind President Trump, get these cabinet members confirmed immediately, and make certain that the change that the American public voted for overwhelmingly starts on day one.”
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