EXCLUSIVE: Republican Senator Rick Scott says he is on a mission to help push the president Donald Trump agenda through Congress.
“I have made a lot of effort and I believe in Trump’s agenda,” said former Florida governor and a two -day senator in an exclusive national digital interview with Fox News.
Scott spoke On the side of a two -day policy summit held in hotel blocks from the US capitol, hosted by the rescue of American dream, a group of public policy aligned with a conservative senator.
Numerous members of Trump’s administration and his political orbit, including the Pam Bonda Attorney General [who served as Florida attorney general during Scott’s tenure as Sunshine State governor] They were guests at the reference.
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Senator Rick Scott speaks to the rescue of American dream policy. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Scott noted that “a lot of my friends work” in another Trump administration. “I have a lot of friends there.”
The senator added that Susie Wiles, the co -founder, was the president’s head of the White House staff at Trump’s campaign, “was my first campaign manager” when Scott won the 2010 Florida elections.
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Scott, hosting a weekly lunch management committee Senate Republicans, He brought Wiles as a prominent guest last week. This week his guest was the entrepreneur of the billionaire Elon Musk, who was eavesdropping to manage his recently created department of the Government Efficiency, a controversial group that is best known for his acronyms, Doge.
Scott, an independent multimillionner who is the richest member Senateemphasized that “I do everything I can because I believe in the agenda.” He said he was working with colleagues from the Senate, as well as friends in the house “to achieve Trump’s plan”.
Senator Rick Scott on a Republican National Convention on July 16, 2024 (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
Scott’s recent efforts seem to increase his picture among his colleagues Republicans.
This picture hit after the GOP failed to regain control of the 2022 Midterms Chamber, when Scott led the National Republican Senator Committee. He also often clashed with the long -standing leader of the GOP Senate, Mitch McConnell and challenged McConnell’s leader unsuccessfully.
Scott also ran for GOP Senate leader last year in the race to inherit McConnell, who left. But he says he has a strong employment with a legislator who won that race, The leader of most Senate John Thunelongtime Republican from southern Dakota.
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“I think John Thune is doing a great job,” Scott said.
Thune, who spoke on the summit of a policy aligned with Scott, returned the compliment.
“The house has a very narrow majority and makes it challenging to do almost everything, but Rick has a good relationship with many people in the home,” Thune told the audience.
Thune noted that Scott, who maintains a week of dinner with members of the GOP, is a Trump administration officials, “meets with them [House Republicans] regularly. So, we have good communication lines. “
The leader of the Senate majority John Thune is shown to save the American Summit of Dream Policy. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Looking forward, Scott emphasized that to push Trump’s plan forward, “We have to be very loud. We have to work on television. We need to be on the radio. We need to talk about why this is good for a normal person.”
During his opening at the White House, Trump moved at a Warp speed at a white house with a tumultuous executive order and shop. His moves, many of them controversial, not only fulfilled some of his main promises about the trace of the campaign, but also made it possible to return the president to flex their executive muscles, quickly put his seal with the Federal Government, made great cuttings with federal workforce and also bribing some long -standing complaints.
Trump has signed 85 executive orders from his inauguration since Thursday, according to the number of Fox News, which far exceeds the rate of all recent presidential predecessors during their first weeks in power.
“It’s something the president has the opportunity to do, but it only lasts while he is president,” Scott noted, as he pointed out the executive commands.
He pointed out that “we have to codify these things” and “this country should be managed by a congress that brings normal laws that help you as an American citizen, and that is what we should do. We appreciate what the president does, but we have to codify these things.”
Fox News’ Emma Woodhead contributed to this report.
