ICYMI—Hagerty Joins Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News Channel to Discuss Stephen Miller, Lame Duck Session, Iran

Washington-On Sunday, United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations, Appropriations, and Banking Committees, joined SundayMorning Futures on Fox News Channel to discuss White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller's recent promotion, Congress's upcoming lame duck session, and the latest news in Iran.

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Hagerty on White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller: Stephen is extraordinarily talented. He is one of the greatest warriors [President Donald Trump] has ever had… We've worked together for more than two years. If you think about Memphis-it came out of the pandemic-we lost control of the city from a crime standpoint. Stephen helped bring to bear 1,600-1,700 federal agents every day on the ground. I'm talking about the [Internal Revenue Service (IRS)], [Housing and Urban Development (HUD)], the [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)], and of course the [Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)]. All of those resources took a lot of coordination. Stephen was able to deliver that. He's going to make a great chief of staff. My hat is off to [former White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles]. She delivered, working alongside President Trump, one of the greatest political comebacks in history. And she's done a magnificent job. I wish her well.

Hagerty on Congress's lame duck session: The American public certainly wants both [permitting reform and the Ratepayer Protection Act]. And we had bipartisan support coming into Election Day, but [Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)] pulled it all down. He'd rather have chaos. All the Democrats were able to do these past two years is deliver two historically long government shutdowns. We're going to vote on Monday night. We'll see if they're serious about permitting reform. My guess is they'll try to pivot toward the Green New Deal. They'll do more destructive economic policies-not only waging war against President Trump, but waging war against the American economy. You've done a great job this session talking about the economy. We just need to be messaging that and we have got to acknowledge the fact that there are some critical points-whether it's at the gas pump or it's at the grocery store-where when we deal with Iran in the Middle East, when we deal with Ukraine, that'll have an impact on fertilizer, that'll have an impact on gas and diesel. And I think we can begin to bring the American reality into connection with what people sense and feel. Clearly people did not feel it on Election Day, and I think it's our job to talk about it the way I've talked about it here in Tennessee… Tennessee is doing everything right in terms of making this state an attractive place to invest. President Trump has done everything right with the Big Beautiful Bill, his trade policies that have attracted more capital coming into America than we have seen in our lifetimes. Let's make the most of it.

Hagerty on GOP support for President Donald Trump's actions in Iran: The President, in typical fashion, is putting all options on the table. The operation that [Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent] has run, Operation Economic Outcast, has put the Iranian economy in the tank. They have no currency; they have no growth. If you think about what we've done from a military standpoint, no Air Force, no Navy, President Trump has moved more military assets into the region, so he has every option available to him and I think he's perfectly capable of bringing this to an end very quickly. It's his decision to make, but I think that can certainly happen. Again, that puts us in a much better posture to put more pressure on Russia, and to deal with Ukraine as well, because… Iranian energy back on the marketplace removes a great deal of leverage that Russia has. I can see everything coming together again. With foreign policy successes, we will breed more domestic policy success as well.

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