House Majority Leader Steve Scalise spoke with Fox News Digital about the 2024 election and what a GOP-led first 100 days would look like.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., suggested former President Donald Trump will move quickly to tighten laws against illegal immigration if he wins the White House. The No. 2 House Republican leader told Fox News Digital that he met with Trump some eight months ago at Mar-a-Lago, where the two discussed priorities for the first 100 days of a new administration – provided the GOP sweeps Congress and the White House.
He said Trump would likely reinstate his Migrant Protection Protocols, better known as the 'Remain in Mexico' policy, which forced asylum-seekers to wait on the Mexican side of the U.S. southwestern border while their cases were being adjudicated. Multiple human rights groups have criticized the policy as inhumane, and the Biden administration dropped it in 2021. Scalise also expects Trump to cease all 'catch-and-release' policies at the border.
Republican-majority Congress would support Trump’s crackdown, he said, noting Capitol Hill’s role in funding federal projects and programs. 'Things like building more wall – that's something we worked with President Trump to do. We built over 500 miles of wall. Joe Biden ended that on day one,' Scalise said.
Should Democrats win the House majority, however, Scalise – the longest-serving member of House GOP leadership – insisted he had no interest in challenging House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., as the top House Republican. When asked if he would entertain a bid for minority leader against Johnson if colleagues asked him to, Scalise firmly answered, 'No.
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