Tim Scott says Biden regulators should quit it, give Trump a 'fresh slate'

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., said regulators nether President Biden should discontinue doing their jobs to let President-elect Trump a "fresh slate" erstwhile helium takes bureau successful January. 

In a letter to Biden connected Sunday, Scott said Americans "across the state rejected your administration’s extremist economical docket and delivered President Trump and the incoming Congress a wide mandate to usher successful a caller epoch of government." 

"Given this mandate," Scott wrote, "it is incumbent upon you and your medication to guarantee that President Trump tin instrumentality the docket the American radical voted for by allowing him to instrumentality bureau connected January 20th with a caller slate." 

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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., waves arsenic helium sits with Donald Trump during a Fox News municipality hallway connected Feb. 20, 2024 successful Greenville, South Carolina. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

"To guarantee an orderly transition, national fiscal and lodging regulators should suspend immoderate rulemaking and information related activities," Scott said. 

As the apical Republican connected the Senate Committee connected Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Scott said helium is calling connected the agencies overseen by the committee to "cease each rulemaking, including the finalization of immoderate pending oregon projected regulations oregon guidance, and to comply with national grounds retention laws and sphere each bureau documents, records, and communications." He besides demanded that each pending nominations wrong the committee’s purview beryllium withdrawn. 

"I volition not ballot for, oregon advance, immoderate nominees enactment distant successful beforehand of the Committee by your administration," Scott wrote. "Next Congress I look guardant to confirming President Trump’s nominees who volition bring astir economical accidental to each Americans." 

Donald Trump gestures to supporters arsenic Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., looks connected aft Trump spoke during an predetermination nighttime ticker enactment astatine the State Fairgrounds connected Feb. 24, 2024, successful Columbia, South Carolina.  (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Copied connected the missive were Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell. 

In summation to focusing connected the Trump transition, Scott, who was elected arsenic the incoming seat of the Senate Republican campaign committee past week, has taken connected a relation of looking to summation the GOP bulk successful the 2026 elections. 

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and ranking subordinate of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, during a proceeding connected Thursday, March 7, 2024.  (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

After his chap GOP lawmakers successful the Senate chose him to seat the National Republican Senatorial Committee implicit the adjacent 2 years, Scott told reporters that his "passion" is to marque definite that Trump "does not person 2 years with a Republican bulk successful the Senate, helium has 4 years successful control." Scott told Fox News Digital that "what we’re going to bash is support the seats that we person and grow the representation truthful that we tin summation the bulk brought to america by the Trump victory."

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Republicans won backmost power of the Senate successful this month's elections, ending 4 years of bulk power by the Democrats. It is expected that erstwhile a mandated authorities recount is completed successful the Senate contention successful Pennsylvania – wherever GOP challenger Dave McCormick leads Democratic Sen. Bob Casey by astir 17,000 votes – the Republicans volition clasp a 53-47 bulk successful the Senate travel January.

Fox News' Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.