President-elect Donald Trump will return to the White House in January. Still, even with a Republican majority in the Senate and a potential majority in the House, he will have to face the administrative "Deep State" to implement his agenda. Representative Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) made this warning recently on Fox Business's Mornings with Maria, saying Trump's appointees must be a combination of loyal insiders and new perspectives.
Rep. Diaz-Balart said such resistance from the ingrained bureaucracy should be expected as "we have seen it before."
As a result, he added, "It is going to be very important that the President have the right people in the right places. It has to be a combination of experienced people who understand the Swamp, understand DC, and understand how to fight it, and then obviously some new blood to get those good new ideas. It is going to be a combination of both that gets it done."
"But this is going to be a battle, and the Swamp, the administrative state, the Deep State, whatever you want to call it, the ingrained bureaucracy, is going to do everything in its power, everything to stop this agenda. But we have an opportunity, a historic opportunity. We know that we have limited time, by the way, to do it. So, if we control everything, that is why we have a very aggressive agenda. It is not going to take 100 days. We want to do it earlier than that to get this country righted and to fight this insanity that we are seeing in the media and is, by the way, also supported by the bureaucracy in Washington, DC," Rep. Diaz-Balart continued.
The Florida Congressman then outlined what he suggested the Trump Administration should do within its first 100 days in office, of which he said there were "many. " The first, he said, was to secure the border, followed by returning to domestic energy production.
"We have to stop and reverse these crazy regulations of the Biden-Harris Administration, and we have to make permanent the Trump tax cuts. If that does not happen, we are looking at a massive tax increase. So, our agenda is aggressive. We know we have to get it done. We have the right leadership in place. Obviously, we need to have control of the House as well as to be able to use this procedure; otherwise, everything requires 60 votes in the Senate, but I am optimistic that the American people will also give us control of the House," Diaz-Balart concluded.
While Trump has kept quiet about his Cabinet selection, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, Elon Musk, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Representative Mike Waltz (R-FL) have been names floating around.
