The following is the full transcript of an interview with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that aired on Jan. 5, 2025.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Thank you for making time for us—
SEN. JOHN THUNE: Great to be with you.
MARGARET BRENNAN: —on a big day for you.
SEN. THUNE: Thanks, Margaret, right.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So let’s start big picture. Republicans have unified control here in Washington, but the House Republicans have a pretty fractured caucus, a pretty narrow majority. How do you see that complicating the work you’re able to get done over here in the Senate?
SEN. THUNE: Well, we need- obviously, as you said, to get anything done, we have to work as a team. And we have unified control. We have the majorities in the House, the Senate, the White House, but the majority in the House is incredibly narrow, which creates some unique management challenges. But they’ve worked around them, and we will work around them and work with the Trump administration, the President and his team, on an agenda that he campaigned on, and that many of our colleagues here in the Senate and the House campaigned on, and so we’re excited about the opportunity. Yes, it’s- these are unusual circumstances with respect to the margins, particularly in the house, but we expect to deliver on what the American people asked us to do.