Senate Majority Leader Thune says this is the reason why he and Trump are working well together
Exclusive: Senate leader John Thun A difficult job is done.
“Republicans in the Senate have committed to holding candidates for President Trump,” who was in the job Senate For six weeks, Fox News told an exclusive national digital interview.
Thne was interviewed before Brock Rollins as Minister of Agriculture, who raised to 16 Trump candidates approved by the Senate.
11 cabinet candidates were approved only on this date eight years ago during the first period of Trump at the White House.
The Senate confirms another controversial candidate Trump
The majority leader of the Senate John Thun, from South Dakota, speaks to the correspondents on February 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquilyn Martin)
On this date, four years ago, the Senate confirmed only seven of the cabinet candidates at the time.
Rollins’s confirmation follows the confirmation of two Donald Trump Most of the controversial candidates: Former MP Toulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Junior as Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services.
Gabbard and Kennedy have been confirmed by the party’s near votes in a Republican control room by 53-47.
“I think the Republic of the Senate has proven that we are united,” said the Republic of South Dakota.
Thnee, a two -year -old Senate warrior, has served in the leadership of the Republican Party in the past few years before the leader has succeeded Senator Mitch McConnell As a better audience in the room, he emphasized the team’s effort.
“What you are trying to do is just trying to make people around you better,” said Thun. “We have a lot of talents in the Senate, and the people who … we want to publish, benefit and allow them to use their talents and talents [to] Create the things here to do. “
Al -Senator referred to his father, a athlete and former coach in the college, who said he advised him to “make the additional pass if someone gets a better snapshot. So what we were trying to do was search for an opportunity to make an additional pass.
Thun says he meets “somewhat regularly” with the president, personally, on the phone and through the text.
President Donald Trump speaks to the majority leader of the Senate John Thun, Rurawi, to the left, and Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson, R. La. After speaking at the National Farmet break in Washington on February 6, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
“It is a regular pipeline,” he said. “His team was really good, too, about working with our team here. I think we have a very constructive working relationship. I tell people, our incentives are aligned. We all want to reach the same destination.”
The Thun has always had an unpredictable unpredictable relationship with Trump.
Trump was criticizing Thun in the years that followed his first term and briefly thought about supporting the basic challenge against Senator, as he nominated for his re -election in 2022.
“Like many people”, Thun said, had “differences with the president in the past.”
“But I think now, we understand the things we want to do during his term and the opportunity we have, which is rare in politics, to control the government, the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House we need to maximize it, and in order to do so, it must be We have a very constructive relationship where there is regular communication. “
McConneel was the only Republican Senate to vote against Kennedy and Gabbard’s confirmation. McConnell, who suffered from polio as a child and a major supporter of vaccines, criticized Kennedy’s history of suspicion of prominent vaccines.
Mitch McConnell (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“I am one of the survivors of polio. McConnell said after Kennedy’s vote:
Trump, who has long criticized McConnell, was targeted again.
“I have no idea if he has polio. All I can tell you about is that he should not be a leader. He knows it. He voted against Bobby. He votes against almost everything. He is a very bitter man.” Fleiled.
“The 82 -year -old McConnell” is still active here and is still a strong voice on the issues he holds, including national security. “
“When it comes to these issues, he has a great influence and a voice that all give attention to,” said Thun. “He has views on some of these candidates who may not track exactly as other Republicans or I have decreased, but we respect his positions in these, some of these names, and I know that on many of the great things coming from us, will be with us.
“Many consultations were held with him over the years and in the last months and weeks, and we will continue to communicate with him when we believe that it makes sense to get his experience, he can help us move,” Thun added.
Senator Senator John Thun, from South Dakota, spoke to the right to reporters, February 11, 2025, after a lunch in the Senate Policy in Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Jacquilyn Martin)
While he had a large range of confirmation victories this week, fruits are realistic.
He warned, “I am satisfied with how it is over, but we have some hard skiing.
While the Trump government currently emphasizes the No. 1 job, Thun wanders in many tasks.
“It is clear that most of our time has occupied the movement’s team’s movement and the assertion of its candidates, and we will continue to do so. But with our progress in this process, we are also looking for windows to transfer important legislation he said.
He referred to the Laken Riley Law, soon approved by the Senate and the Council and signed the Trump Law.
The controversial procedure, which was called the name of a nursing student killed by an illegal immigrant while running on the university campus at the University of Georgia, requires federal immigration authorities to detain illegal immigrants who were convicted of theft crimes.
Thun pointed out that the legislation was held by supporting the two parties, but added that it was “a bill that was responding to the mandate of the elections, and it was the draft law of the Democrats and United Republicans.”
His predecessor as a majority leader in the Senate, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer from New York.
Thne tied that during the Shomer period, “the floor will be exposed. He will continue to do so and return to normal demand.”
