ICYMI—Hagerty Joins Varney & Co. on Fox Business to Discuss Iran, Democrats’ Economic Agenda

Washington-On Monday, United States Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations, Appropriations, and Banking Committees, joined Varney & Co. on Fox Business to Discuss Iran and Democrats' socialist price control agenda.

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Hagerty on Iran: I do think we are close to the end [of the conflict]. If you think about the target package that [Central Command Commander Admiral Brad Cooper] was executing before we stepped back and had the ceasefire, we were 75-80% of the way through with that target package… But these are final steps as the regime tries to hold on. You have this debate going on internal to the Iranian regime between-and I can't believe I'm saying this-the moderate terrorists versus the more hardline terrorists. They are both fighting for control over the steering wheel-if you remember the Thelma and Louisescenewhere they are about to drive over the cliff. [Iran needs] to come to reality here. [President Donald Trump] has met them with resolve at every turn; America is going to respond at every turn with 10 times the force… Again, they were the ones that reached out to ask for these meetings in [Doha, Qatar,] this week. I think the Iranian regime needs to get the message loud and clear: President Trump is only going to base any type of relief on performance.

Hagerty on Sen. Chris Murphy's, D-Conn., $25 minimum wage proposal: I think it may be a winning issue within Democrat primaries, where the Democrat socialists are taking over the party-that clearly seems to be where Chris Murphy is going. [Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt.,] was at $17, now Chris Murphy is coming in at $25. Who is going to bid $30, $50 an hour? This is all about price control; control of the economy. [Democrats] act as though they have had experience in business-clearly, they do not. What [raising the minimum wage to $25] does is lead to unemployment for young people… You look at what happened in California-more unemployment, more automation, and higher poverty. You look at what happened in Connecticut when they actually tried this-more people on the Medicaid rolls after [the state government] actually implemented more price controls on wages. This is not the way the American economy needs to be focused right now. We need to be focused on international competitiveness. You think about what [Democrats] did in the Biden administration-adding $4-8 trillion of incremental compliance cost to the American economy, the war they waged on energy here in America-all of these actions that they have taken to make life less affordable. We are working to deal with it right now, but rather than help us address it-rather than work with us-they want to come up with these socialist ideas. Again, I think it is all politics for people here. They may be considering presidential runs, but they are [detached] from reality.

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