Harriet Hageman of Wyoming was one of the few Republicans unaffected by this week's blue wave election, easily cruising to victory in her Senate race.
She is now urging Senate Republicans to use the time they have left to pass the things they can, and to do so quickly.
It'll be fascinating to see if the party actually takes her advice.
Just the News reported:
Key lawmaker suggests GOP go big in lame-duck Congress to foil Democrat defunding, spending plans
One of the few House Republicans to win a U.S. Senate seat in Tuesday's blue-wave election is urging her GOP colleagues to aggressively use the remaining days of the lame-duck Congress this year to pass multi-year budgets to protect agencies that Democrats want to defund and to codify President Donald Trump cuts to foreign aid that the left wants to restore.
Rep. Harriet Hageman, soon to be sworn in as Wyoming's next U.S. senator, told Just the News on Thursday night that she is urging fellow Republicans to replicate their last budget reconciliation law that funded Trump's Homeland Security agenda until the end of his presidency and codify other GOP priorities and foil Democrats' ambitions in the next Congress.
Such a move would require only 51 votes in the Senate, bypassing the blockade of a filibuster rule, then allow Trump to use his veto pen to thwart Democrat efforts in the next Congress to overturn his priorities, thus securing them through the 2028 election.
"I think we ought to do another reconciliation package and fund some of these programs and agencies that we know that the Democrats are going to target," Hageman said during a wide-ranging interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show.
"We did it with reconciliation for the Department of Homeland Security just this summer. So yes, we have the ability to do that," she continued. "We need to target those agencies that we know that the Democrats are going to target from the standpoint of trying to either destroy them, undermine them or fundamentally change where they go."
Harriet Hageman is about to become a much more important voice in Republican politics.
Now that the GOP will be in the Senate minority, she will be increasingly relied upon to push back on the left.
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