EXCLUSIVE: Freshman Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno has served out his first 100 days within the U.S. Senate, and he spoke to Fox Information Digital about his largest takeaways and what he hopes the GOP Senate can accomplish over the subsequent 100 days.
“It’s been a whirlwind,” Moreno mentioned. “Obviously, President Trump’s moving at 100 mph. So my hope is that Congress meets that same sense of urgency and speed. I think voters expect it.”
Moreno, who defeated Ohio’s longtime Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown final November, has been busy since being sworn in, cosponsoring 67 payments whereas introducing eight authentic ones of his personal.
Over the subsequent few months, Moreno informed Fox Information Digital, he hopes to see a few of his laws turn out to be regulation.
Senate candidate Bernie Moreno speaks on the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 16, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
“Most important of all being the Transportation Freedom Act,” Moreno defined. “The auto industry is right now in a really, really critical juncture. Because of Joe Biden and California lunatics, there’s a lot of standards that are just not going to be able to be met.”
“The car companies are trying to figure out what kind of cars to make. So what our bill basically does is say, ‘Hey look, here’s one set of standards. It’s one set of standards for the entire country and then, most importantly, set those standards for 10 years,'” Moreno continued. “So if you’re Ford or GM or any other car company, you know, what kind of cars to make for the next decade. That’s huge. That will lower the price of automobiles.”
Persevering with to deal with unlawful immigration goes to be a precedence over the subsequent few months, based on Moreno, who mentioned he hopes his Guidelines Act addressing the damaged asylum system can be handed, calling it a “low hanging fruit” and an “80-20 issue” Republicans can win on.
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Bernie Moreno, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, listens as Sen. Tommy Tuberville addresses supporters at Brecksville Group Heart on Nov. 4, 2024, in Brecksville, Ohio. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Photographs)
Since taking workplace, Moreno has visited constituents in all 88 counties in Ohio, taken half in over 30 interviews with Ohio media retailers, hosted over 500 Ohioans for constituent coffees in Washington, D.C., and authored 16 letters on points affecting Ohioans.
“I think my opponent, the guy who I replaced, Sherrod Brown, was emblematic of the kind of politicians people hate and basically just go down there for the paycheck and don’t ever accomplish anything,” Moreno informed Fox Information Digital. “I think he passed like six bills that named post offices. That was his 30-year career high. So we just want to get stuff done. I’m not gonna be there forever. I’m gonna be there one or two terms. The second one is up to the voters of Ohio. And then that’s it.”
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President Donald Trump speaks to the media within the Oval Workplace on the White Home. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)
Over the subsequent 100 days, Moreno informed Fox Information Digital, there’s a lengthy record of issues he hopes the GOP Senate will get finished in a well timed method to make sure that the Trump agenda is firing on all cylinders heading into the midterms.
“I want to make sure we get a good reconciliation bill that preserves Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits but lowers the cost because of technology that we put in place in sort of state-directed work mandates for able-bodied Americans,” Moreno mentioned. “I think most people expect that.”
Moreno additionally spoke about the necessity to minimize funding to USAID.
“We can’t afford 40-50 billion dollars in USAID-type programs, some of which are completely insane, and we need that money here in America to help Americans. Preserving Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid benefits, making the 2017 tax reform permanent so we don’t see a four-and-a-half trillion dollar tax increase.”
Moreover, Moreno mentioned it’s a precedence to “codify” DOGE cuts into regulation in order that the cuts are “in there forever.”
“I think if we can accomplish all that, combined with what President Trump’s already done with tariffs and trade and peace and the border, we will see the golden age of America by the end of the year in a way we’ve never seen.”
