By Charles Young, The Exponent Telegram
WASHINGTON — Immigration, taxes and the national debt are at the top of the agenda for Republicans in Congress, according to U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va.
Capito, who on Wednesday was elected to the No. 4 position on the GOP Senate leadership team, will play a sizable role in shaping the priorities of lawmakers as chair of the Senate GOP Policy Committee.
“I will not just be at the leadership table, but I will be leading the Policy Committee, which is the one that really does the deep-dives on all the policy that we’re going to be going forward (on) and where we need to be making adjustments or new law or clawing back some of the regulatory areas,” she said Thursday.
The first issues to be tackled are those President-elect Donald Trump discussed frequently on the campaign trail, Capito said.
“I think probably the top areas that we will go to the quickest are the ones that the president talked about the most,” she said.
Trump is likely to push to restart construction of the wall along the southern border with Mexico and to reenact immigration policies from his first term, like the “Remain in Mexico” policy, Capito said.
