Scalise details Trump's vision on securing border in first 100 days

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., suggested erstwhile President Donald Trump volition determination rapidly to tighten laws against illegal immigration if helium wins the White House.

The No. 2 House Republican person told Fox News Digital that helium met with Trump immoderate 8 months agone astatine Mar-a-Lago, wherever the 2 discussed priorities for the archetypal 100 days of a caller medication – provided the GOP sweeps Congress and the White House. 

Among the priorities, successful summation to economical and vigor initiatives, is the concern astatine the U.S.-Mexico border.

"President Trump tin bash a fig of things connected his ain that helium has talked about," Scalise said Friday.

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House Majority Leader Scalise, apical inset, spoke with Fox News Digital astir what the archetypal 100 days would look similar with a GOP Congress and White House. (Getty Images)

He said Trump would apt reinstate his Migrant Protection Protocols, amended known arsenic the "Remain successful Mexico" policy, which forced asylum-seekers to hold connected the Mexican broadside of the U.S. southwestern borderline portion their cases were being adjudicated. Multiple quality rights groups person criticized the argumentation arsenic inhumane, and the Biden medication dropped it successful 2021.

Scalise besides expects Trump to cease each "catch-and-release" policies astatine the border.

"We cognize that it's causing transgression problems successful each community, cause problems, the fentanyl that the cause cartels are bringing in," Scalise said.

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A Republican-majority Congress would enactment Trump’s crackdown, helium said, noting Capitol Hill’s relation successful backing national projects and programs.

"Things similar building much wall – that's thing we worked with President Trump to do. We built implicit 500 miles of wall. Joe Biden ended that connected time one," Scalise said.

"We besides privation to money immoderate much tools for our Border Patrol agents, things similar drone capabilities, nighttime vision, truthful that they tin bash an adjacent amended occupation of managing the border."

Republicans would besides rotation backmost electrical conveyance mandates, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise suggested. (Eric Thayer)

Other archetypal 100-day priorities see rolling backmost electrical conveyance mandates and mounting caller taxation argumentation – with cardinal provisions successful Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act acceptable to expire successful 2025.

However, the Louisiana Republican was cautious not to over-project assurance successful the closing days of the election. He noted that the House bulk would apt travel down to 40 to 45 cardinal races retired of 435 and that a GOP bulk would apt beryllium a slim 4 to 10 seats.

"These aren't the days wherever you tin person a 30-seat bulk anymore due to the fact that of redistricting and the mode it's truly narrowed the map," helium said. "But astatine the aforesaid time, I mean, contiguous we person a four-seat majority. We had really dropped down to a one-seat bulk earlier this year. So, you know, if we're capable to get it up adjacent to treble digits, that would truly beryllium a large nighttime for us."

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Scalise himself has enactment successful hundreds of miles connected the roadworthy successful enactment of Republican candidates.

He raised $70 cardinal this predetermination cycle, with $15 cardinal fixed to the House GOP run limb and $10.4 cardinal to 206 idiosyncratic candidates and incumbents.

Scalise’s governmental squad said helium has visited astatine slightest 140 antithetic districts to run for the 2024 cycle.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise has campaigned with some susceptible Republicans, similar Rep. Jen Kiggans, and those successful harmless seats. (Scalise For Congress)

In October alone, the period earlier Election Day, Scalise held 66 events crossed 28 states.

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Should Democrats triumph the House majority, however, Scalise – the longest-serving subordinate of House GOP enactment – insisted helium had nary involvement in challenging House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arsenic the apical House Republican.

When asked if helium would entertain a bid for number person against Johnson if colleagues asked him to, Scalise firmly answered, "No."

"We're not talking astir what happens if we suffer the majority, due to the fact that each of my absorption is connected not lone winning the majority, but gaining seats. And anybody who's reasoning astir losing oregon thing similar that is conscionable misplaced successful their focus," helium said.