The Incoming GOP Senate's Bold New Agenda
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advancing a new president's priorities. The president-elect and Republican allies on Capitol Hill are already looking at tax relief. We need to put together a package that will spur this economy, that will lead to the issues that I think were top front and center for me, which is the inflation issues, the cost of groceries, rent, power. We're joined by West Virginia Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito.

And Lisa Brady. It may be a tough sell during the upcoming holiday season, but a new study suggests Americans need to cut down on drinking. It's not good for your heart. It's not good for your weight because there are calories associated with it. It's part of a lifestyle, a sedentary lifestyle, where you're not exercising enough, you're not sleeping well, and you may not be eating all the right calories. And I'm Jason Rantz. I've got the final word on the Fox News Rundown. ♪

A new Trump administration in a new year will mean a shift in U.S. relations with China. Over the weekend, the current president, Joe Biden, met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Lima, Peru, speaking about the current relationship. We haven't always agreed, but our conversations have always been candid and always been frank. We have never kidded one another. We've been level with one another. I think that's vital.

These conversations prevent miscalculations and they ensure the competition between our two countries

will not veer into conflict. When the calendar flips to 2025, Republican leaders like House Speaker Mike Johnson will be eager to advance President-elect Trump's policies. The new reform agenda begins in earnest as soon as President Donald J. Trump takes the office in January. And we have a full agenda to run. It's going to be a very aggressive first 100 days of the new Congress. And we've gotten all the members of Congress ready for that.

For now, Senate leaders are looking ahead to confirming nominees to the Trump cabinet. Minnesota Republican Congressman Tom Emmer defended his former colleague, who is the nominee for attorney general. And when it comes to Matt Gaetz, let's keep in mind that Biden's attorney general, Merrick Garland, prosecuted his political opponents and went after parents who were peacefully protesting at school board meetings. Look,

Again, Donald Trump shaking it up. Matt Gaetz, he's been a champion for the fundamental rights of all Americans in his years on the Judiciary Committee. He'll be a great AG. Delaware Democrat Senator Chris Coons says the Senate plays a critical role in vetting cabinet nominees. I certainly hope that's the case.

and that we won't see nominees jammed through in recess appointments where there's no confirmation hearing, no confirmation vote, and they take over incredibly powerful positions for up to two years. Of course, I'd be willing to meet with President-elect Trump's nominees. I did the previous time he was president. I voted on many of them. As a new Republican leadership team prepares to lead the Senate forward when the GOP becomes the majority...

in january i'm excited to be the incoming chair of the republican senate republican policy committee west virginia senator shelly moore capito because i'll have a seat at the leadership table and what i'm hoping to do is to provide information promote and advance a unified

conservative Republican voice reflecting and working with obviously President Trump and Vice President Vance. I envision that my role will be to gather all the policy issues, whatever it is, border, tax, all of these, provide

provide that information to my fellow senators and their staffs, and work with the committees to make sure we're working in a coordinated fashion. I also, through this responsibility, will run our Tuesday, which is normally our Tuesday meeting, which is our conference lunch, which is when we then have a back and forth and sometimes very vigorous back and forth on

decisions that are before us in the next several weeks. So I have a full plate here, but I'll be working with obviously our new leader, John Thune, who is a good friend and an excellent, will be an excellent leader with our whip Barrasso, Tom Cotton and James Langford. So I think we've got a good team put together.

As you know, President-elect Trump ran on an aggressive agenda, wanting to get a lot done for the American people. You also know that the first 100 days of a new administration are significant. What do you think can get accomplished in that first 100 days from a policy perspective?

You know, I think the president will come forward rapidly to undo some of the executive orders that President Biden and Vice President Harris have put together. Specifically, I think he will come and I don't I don't have an insight to this will be his number one issue, but I imagine it would be. And that, of course, would be the illegal immigration that we see streaming across the country. So I think he will venture to go back.

and reinstate policies that act as a deterrent at the border. And I think you'll see him asking us and we will be pushing hard to fulfill the promise of continuing to build a wall. And so I think that's going to be one of the first things. I think also legislatively,

because we have the president the house and the senate as republicans we have an opportunity i think to put economic policy uh in forward looking at the tax relief bill that we passed under president trump before and uh some of those tax relief policies are going to be expiring and we need to

put together a package that will spur this economy, that will lead to the issues that I think were top front and center for me, which is the inflation issues, the cost of groceries, rent, power, and all the things that have really been bearing down on the American family. I think you also see strengthening of his international situation through the White House and whatever we can do to back him up on that. And I think you'll see our fiscal policies will probably reflect

the frustration that all of us has, which is the climbing debt. So I think we got a lot we can do initially and he can do in terms of legislatively. I would look for the tax relief and economic policies to be the first thing we could do legislatively along with the border issue. As you know, a big part of the Senate's role early on will be confirmation of the Trump cabinet. I'm curious your thoughts about some of the names we've heard and

how bumpy of a ride it may be with some of perhaps the more controversial names.

Well, I do believe that the president has the prerogative to nominate a team that he feels reflects his, what I think was a mandate election. And so I specifically in my committee, Lee Zeldin will be coming before us as EPA administrator. We're still waiting to see what he's going to do in transportation. I think other issues, some of the ones that have come before us obviously are, you know,

Some are controversial. I think we'll consider each one fairly and quickly. And, you know, they'll have to go through the process. And I think they should go before the relevant committees so that senators can have an opportunity to question. We do have a constitutional responsibility to have advice and consent. And I think we should exercise those responsibilities. So it is – he promised the American people he would shake it up. Yeah.

And I think what you see is some of his appointments are very reflective of that, or really they all are in different ways. And so we'll just see how the process goes forward under the new leadership in the Senate.

There's been some talk about the possibility of recess appointments. I don't want to get too into the weeds about Senate procedures, but does that concern you if some nominee may not have the votes, if there's an effort to push the nominee through a recess?

Well, you know, I think we're way ahead of the game if we start talking about that. We have we can't do anything until January the 3rd, until we are sworn in in terms of pre having pre meetings and and committee looks at the potential candidates. And remember, the president can't even nominate anybody until he becomes president. So this is months away or at least a month and a half away. I think that.

The preferable route, obviously, is to have the advice and consent and to have the cabinet secretaries come through the committees, as is the regular order that we can do this. But we need to do it expeditiously and thoroughly. And I think it's going to require us to really –

be not just attentive to it, but work through the clock here. The clock in the Senate, without getting too controversial, or in the weeds, the clock is the key. So if we ride through a lot of these 30-hour requirements, I think we're going to be able to evaluate each nominee fairly and quickly through the regular process. And a recess appointment would not be something that would come up in the immediate process

So we'll have to see how that rolls out as we address these nominees. You made reference earlier to your colleague, Senator John Thune, taking the leadership role as Senate majority leader in the new Congress. A big change because Senate Republicans have been led by Mitch McConnell for a historic period of time. Your thoughts on the contrast between the two and perhaps the style differences going forward?

Yeah, I think John Thune has a different style than Mitch McConnell. I've served on the leadership team with Senator McConnell. He's my neighboring senator here in Kentucky. And he has a very keen, intuitive approach

look at not just what's going to happen tomorrow, but the long game. That's the name of his book, and that's the game that he really plays. And he also is a protector of the institution of the Senate, you can see by his desire to preserve the filibuster. I think Senator Thune

is a protector of the institution to preserve the filibuster as well. But I think he will probably, and as a reflecting of what we wanna see in a leadership change,

really rely more on our committee chairs for help, for regular order, to move legislation through, to move nominees through. He will work more collaboratively with every senator. I think he's known to be, he's

easy to engage with. He's a good listener. But I don't want to say anything negative about Mitch McConnell, quite frankly, because I think he is an extremely strong leader and he has served, I think, very well. President-elect Trump's also called for an end on taxes, on tips and overtime. I'm sure that's something that connects with a lot of your constituents back home in West Virginia.

What do you think about that? And how quickly do you think we could get tax cuts done in the new Congress? You know, I think the obviously the two areas that he has talked about eliminating taxes will be welcomed universally. And I think we'll get Democrat support with that as well. You saw Vice President Harris embrace those concepts. So I am fully in support of that. I think we can go to tax. We are going to be working on this in a policy sense tomorrow.

Very immediately after the president is sworn in, we have an opportunity. We need to pass a budget before we could do this. That's a technical thing, but it's an important thing. And so I think there's a lot of enthusiasm to go to some of the tax relief prospects and to also spur job growth, wage growth. All of the things that you saw were happening under President Trump's previous administration before we got to COVID. So I'm excited about that.

As we look back on this election, Democrats are doing some soul searching, some finger pointing and all of that. But do you think that some of them will take away from the election that the American people want at least some cooperation? Do you expect Democrats will come around on some issues? I think so. I think that, you know, if you look at what Senator Schumer, who's the outgoing leader, said, he kept emphasizing bipartisanship. That's

slightly caused a few of us to sort of laugh because that's not exactly what he did when he was leader. But I do think that at the end of the day, all senators, regardless of your party, are sent there to help the people they represent. And tax relief is certainly one of those. A safer border area is one of those. I think safer streets are one of those areas of priorities that there's bipartisan support

agreement on. And so I do think initially Democrats will come to the table and want to participate. And I welcome that. And I think that but, you know, the proof's going to be in the pudding there to see how cooperative they want to be. There's others who are just all all over negative before anything's even started. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, the great state of West Virginia, grateful for your time today. Have a wonderful week. Yes, you too, Mike. And thank you.

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Alcohol use that spiked during pandemic lockdowns has apparently become a hard habit to break, despite all the warnings it can be hazardous to your health. I think it's making me change my mind a little bit, but, you know, I mean...

It's a good pick-me-up. You know, the liquor's a good pick-me-up. So, you know, especially when you got them long work days and you need to get the stress out. Researchers at the University of Southern California say heavy alcohol use among U.S. adults rose by 20 percent from 2018 to 2020. And their study of National Health Interview survey data finds the increase was sustained in 2022.

Heavy drinking was defined as 15 drinks per week for a man, 8 drinks a week for a woman. Liver transplant specialist and principal investigator for the study, Dr. Brian Lee, calls it a crisis, telling Healthline that consequences from increased alcohol use have also been increasing, including the need for liver transplants and alcohol-related deaths. Though not everyone needs convincing. Alcohol is an issue that will take years off your life.

just about lost a family member.

And I think that we all have to be aware of that and start cutting back, if not stopping. The CDC links drinking to more than 200 diseases, injuries, and other health conditions. In the new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, adults in their 40s had the biggest increase in heavy alcohol consumption. The pandemic reversing a trend. Drinking levels were stabilizing in studies before COVID. Let's remember that alcohol is addictive. So if you start in a process of drinking it,

You need more. You get more of a tolerance to it. Maybe you're using it to treat your own anxiety potentially, and maybe that hasn't gone away. Fox News Senior Medical Analyst Dr. Mark Siegel. So there's a lot of issues that have persisted regarding alcohol. Now, alcohol is also a social lubricant, but it's also one that people use when they're alone.

And so I don't see the conditions really changing that much. And plus, I'm concerned about the addictive potential here. What is the difference between heavy alcohol use and moderate use? And is any amount acceptable when it comes to your health? Well, the way to...

answer that is to say no alcohol is good better than none you know the old myth of about a decade ago that somehow one to two glasses of wine a day are good for you well they have some medicinal properties but they're they're outweighed by the fact that alcohol is a poison so not no amount is good i mean light drinking might be a drink a day that you know because

Overall, men probably tolerate alcohol slightly better than women because of overall weight. But in general, I'd say the less the better. Are there clues that you can see as a doctor at a checkup that may suggest a patient is drinking too much and having a physical impact? Or is it only obvious when it's heavy drinking and a lot of damage?

I think it's best to have an open relationship with your patient where they feel that they're in a vault and they can actually reveal things to you. Now, there's a lot of denial that goes on with alcohol to begin with, so you have to ask the question several different ways repeatedly. You certainly don't want to wait until you see impact on the skin or the liver or the digestive tract or the heart.

I know what to look for, but I'd rather have a patient be very direct and honest about it. The entire doctor-patient relationship is based on honesty. On the flip side of all this, how much does it help health-wise to cut down on drinking? And I ask this in part because let's take the liver, for example. Is it possible for liver damage to be repaired?

Well, the liver is about the most regenerative organ in the body. It does repair itself. It can't fix scars, but you can get a fatty liver that doesn't persist. You can get liver damage that is reversed. And again, the liver regenerates. So you really want to take that into consideration. And any sign of any liver disease at all, you want to cut down on alcohol because alcohol is a toxin to the liver.

What are the other ways that cutting down on drinking, even if you're just a moderate drinker, can help in terms of your health?

It's not good for your heart. It's not good for your weight because there are calories associated with it. It's part of a lifestyle, a sedentary lifestyle where you're not exercising enough, you're not sleeping well, and you may not be eating all the right calories, including alcohol. Perhaps the one that's spoken about the least is how alcohol interferes with sleep. Because what happens is, let's say you drink a glass of wine at bedtime and it helps you go to sleep.

Part of that is the sugar and the alcohol. But when the alcohol wears off, the brain wakes up. So that explains sometimes waking up in the middle of the night. Drinking alcohol is not going to give you a full uninterrupted night's sleep. Does it seem just anecdotally even to you that younger generations have moved away from a culture of drinking or at least drinking as much as some older generations?

I don't think that younger generations have moved away from drinking. I think it may be part of more of an overall use of adjuncts, things like marijuana, alcohol, cigarettes, vaping.

Other drugs, cocaine, speed, you know, there are cocktails of drugs that we see these days, psychedelics. But I wouldn't say that alcohol's been replaced by these things. I think, if anything, it's a party drug along with other party drugs.

There is some new research showing that the same drugs first used for diabetes and now being used for weight loss might help to treat alcohol addiction. Would that be a welcome thing?

Development, what are the existing tools that we have? I think the use of semaglutides and terzepatide is a really good idea to be looking at. They're looking like the next generation miracle drugs, like what we found with statin drugs 20 years ago.

They were just incredible. The more we thought maybe we're overhyping them, the more we realized we weren't overhyping them. The only issue with the drugs you're talking about now is that it's still pretty early in the game. We've had them around for 10 years for diabetes. There's a rush of use for weight loss now that's completely out of control. It doesn't look at what the causes of weight gain are.

But nevertheless, having said that, looks like semaglutide and the other drugs are

not just appetite suppressants, they work on the hunger centers in the brain that may also have a crossover to the addiction center of the brain and thereby decrease the craving for alcohol and also in terms of gastric emptying. So I think several of their properties, these drugs, would lead to decreased alcohol use. That is not surprising to me.

But is a drug like Ozempic something you can take forever? Or does getting off of it lead to weight gain or in this case possibly lead to a return of the urge to drink?

We don't know. You know, right now, there's a lot of concern about that, about rebound when you stop it. And, you know, it's still, again, early for weight loss. Most of my patients that are on it haven't yet stopped it. But, of course, what you want to do if you are planning on stopping it is make sure that the lifestyle changes that should be going along with it are fully instituted.

Not everyone that's going to stop it is going to go back to where they were before. So, for example, if it helps you stop drinking, it's not automatic. You're going to restart again. And wasn't there already concern about the availability of those drugs, especially for the original use, diabetes, because there's been such an explosion for the additional use now of, you know, weight loss?

These drugs are out of control. I think we're going to have to figure out not only how to get more of it, how to get insurance to cover it, but how to make sure the right people are prescribing it. Because right now, there are many places you can get it, like almost out of a machine, like some dispensary of someone who doesn't know you, and that's out of control. I think the whole culture of it will change when the oral versions of it come out. But I don't know if that means change for the better, maybe change for the worse.

I think it's a medication that needs to be prescribed seriously by a doctor with expertise in it. And I think it has to go hand in hand with lifestyle change. What medications do we have already that are currently approved by the FDA to help cut back on drinking or to treat alcohol addiction? Is it something similar to how methadone is used for opioid addicts?

Well, naltrexone is one of those drugs that's used for alcohol use. The other one, anabuse, is very difficult to tolerate. So we're definitely looking for a third, and that might very well be Ozembic or Wegovy. So I'm all in on researching this. We don't have a really good drug for alcohol. If someone wants to start drinking less alcohol, what are some ways to do it?

Well, you know, Alcoholics Anonymous has worked really well. I think the first thing is to get a physician you trust and open a dialogue which is based on honesty. I think alcohol, like anything else, it's habituating. So the other thing I've noticed about alcohol is that

If a person, let's say, has a well-placed glass of wine on weekends, they actually can savor the taste of it. But if you're drinking a lot, you tend to drink more. I'm also concerned, by the way, at what the addition of these hard seltzers has done, because you don't really taste anything different at all. So what's the purpose of that? It's kind of like an alcohol infusion. I think that's changed the culture for the worse.

I think they don't even taste like alcohol. So you could get in danger of not even social drinking, not realizing that you're gaining alcohol almost surreptitiously. So I think it's all about, like any other addiction, it has to be dealt with step by step with the guidance of others. Maybe, again, if it gets severe enough in a group like AA, which has been tried and true,

works really well. There's a big range of drinking. I mean, if and if you're not someone who's considered an alcoholic, but you are someone who drinks regularly, maybe not daily, but at least weekly and are now thinking, you know what, this really isn't good for my health. So I want to cut back, even though I'm not drinking all the time. You know, it's it still requires maybe a shift in mindset or lifestyle.

I've given you some ideas about how I approach this already, Lisa. I look at it in terms of replacement activity. What exactly might you replace them with? You remember when everybody drank Coca-Cola? Well, I'll give you a little clue. I drink seltzer now because I decided that when I was a kid, it was the bubbles that I was addicted to. A lot of people came to that same conclusion, by the way. So I've replaced sugary Coca-Cola with...

with club soda or with spring water. I don't know if that's completely healthy, but it's got to be better than Coke. Similarly, you need to map out when you're drinking. That's why I brought up the hard seltzer thing. People have that, they think they're not having any alcohol. When are you having alcohol?

Make a chart of it. Make a diary of it. I mean, don't go crazy spending all day with that. But get in your head when you're actually drinking and what can you replace it with? What could you have instead? A lot of people are used to having alcohol with dinner. Maybe they'll find after dinner that they get more heartburn. It's the same thing as with coffee. Although, of course, coffee is probably a lot better for your health than alcohol is. But still, it can cause stomach irritation. What can you replace it with? Try other things.

beverages instead of alcohol. Monitor yourself. When are you drinking? Why are you drinking? Under what circumstances are you drinking? And what might you replace it with? Fox News Senior Medical Analyst, Dr. Mark Siegel. Thank you so much for your time. Great to be with you, Lisa. Thank you.

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Also Tuesday, New York Judge Juan Merchant is expected to make a decision on whether to throw out President-elect Trump's hush money verdict or go ahead with sentencing him.

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It's time for your Fox News commentary. Jason Rantz. What's on your mind? In a seismic shift, voters across traditionally progressive strongholds like Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland are starting to send a clear message. The progressive experiment in public safety, housing and drug policy has failed.

Decades of policies promising reform and social justice have instead delivered a relentless rise in crime, out-of-control homelessness, and the normalization of rampant drug use in our communities. It's the Democrat voters who have finally had enough.

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon, elected in 2020 on a promise to reimagine public safety, has become the face of what's gone wrong with progressive criminal justice policies. His tenure has been defined by controversial reforms that have left criminals emboldened and the public terrified. Policies like no cash bail, reduced sentences, and an overall dismissal of traditional prosecution standards were supposed to right the wrongs of the system. In

Instead, they've given criminals free reign to continue breaking the law with no fear of consequences. Property crimes, car thefts, and organized retail theft have surged to unprecedented levels under his watch. Since 2020, homicides surpassed 300 in four consecutive years, which hadn't happened once in the 2010s. The message was simple. Los Angeles no longer valued law and order. But voters finally responded, demanding accountability and a return to policies that prioritize the safety of law-abiding citizens over the protections of repeat offenders. They booted Gascon from office.

Similarly, in San Francisco, Mayor London Reed, once a rising star of progressivism, found herself on the wrong side of public opinion as her city deteriorated. San Francisco, a once thriving hub of culture and innovation, has become infamous for its open-air drug markets, sprawling homeless encampments, and streets littered with needles and human waste.

Progressive policies like decriminalizing drug possession, establishing safe injection sites, and refusing to enforce basic quality of life laws have rendered the city unrecognizable. The voters rejected Breed, electing Levi Strauss heir and nonprofit founder Daniel Laurie. It reflects a community desperate to restore sanity and safety to their streets. Then there's Portland, a city that became a national spectacle as protests, riots, and autonomous zones dominated the headlines for months on end.

But more recently, the focus of Portlanders ire has become the explosion of homeless encampments. For years, Portland served as a petri dish for every progressive experiment imaginable. Lenient policies toward encampments and open drug use turned the city into a dystopian cautionary tale. But in the recent election, Portland voters gave the mayorship to Keith Wilson, a political outsider who promised to end the homelessness crisis with a more aggressive plan to bring people indoors.

The progressive agenda that voters in cities like L.A., San Francisco, and Portland once supported has now run its course. But we shouldn't forget the toll this has taken on some of society's most vulnerable. Ironically, the very people progressives claim to champion. Homeless people struggling with addiction have turned into political pawns used to justify policies that, in reality, have trapped them in cycles of poverty and dependency. Citizenship is a problem.

Cities flooded with addiction services handing out fentanyl freebasing kits have only seen addiction rates climb and open air drug scenes have transformed once vibrant neighborhoods into no-go zones. Instead of offering a hand up, these policies have encouraged a devastating lifestyle that's nearly impossible to escape from, often costing lives. The

The backlash should be a wake-up call to Democrats across the country, and it shouldn't come as a shock. As I detail in my book, What's Killing America? Inside the Radical Left's Tragic Destruction of Our Cities, these policies have provided little more than misery and chaos, doing the exact opposite of what they were supposed to. Voters aren't rejecting progressivism because they're quote-unquote reactionary or fearful. They're rejecting it because it's failed them, plain and simple. I'm Jason Ranz.

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