John Thune

He's got all these vacant positions.

He can't, you know, run the government because he doesn't have his people in place.

And I think when the people vote for a president, that's what they're voting for.

They want him to be able to assemble his team and get them in place.

So we made some tweaks, some changes in the rules that enables us to move them now in stacks.

That'll put us over 400 for the year.

which is well ahead not only of his first term in office, but Biden as well.

And it just makes sense.

To me, it's about, you know, if you want your government to run and function effectively and efficiently, and I think most Americans do, they want to see a president get his team in place.

So we've been keeping our heads down and getting that done.

Well, I think like most Americans, I want, you know, I want people to be able to live.

And I think the question, basic question most Americans ask is, you know, am I safe?

Is my family safe?

Is my neighborhood safe?

Is my community safe?

My world safe?

And, you know, these days there was so much, like you said, going on and these attacks that have been in the news lately, it raises a lot of those questions for people in this country.

I do think that the president's clear-eyed focus on making our community safer, his investment in securing the border,

working with us, his investment in America's national security and projecting a policy of peace through strength around the world are all things that contribute to keeping people in this country safe.

But when you see things like what happened in Australia or even things that, you know, some of these horrible incidents here,