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Rep. Nathaniel Moran reacts to Trump's first 100 days in office
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By Michael Garcia
April 28, 2025

Tyler, Texas – East Texas Representative Nathaniel Moran of Tyler spoke in Washington on Monday to give his thoughts on President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.

Moran started his comments at the House GOP media event by discussing Trump’s actions on the border.

“President Trump has shown strength from day one, not just domestically but internationally to enforce the rule of law, to remind other countries and other people groups that we have a sovereign and secure border,” said Moran. “We’re going to enforce the rules here. We want to encourage legal immigration but illegal immigration is no longer going to be stood for.”

Next, Moran commented on the economy’s reaction to the tariff’s that Trump announced earlier this year by saying that the United States would see positive effects with in the next six months to a year.

“Right now we may see the polls dip a little bit because there’s a little uncertainty in the market, but that’s just a short term reaction to a little uncertainty about not understanding, how to catch up. And frankly, I think it’s because the speed at which President Trump is moving, the things that he is doing so quickly with such effect,” Moran said. “We’re going to see some positive effects next in the next six months and in the next year, for sure, with the economy, with what’s going on the world stage. We’re seeing countries flood to America, willing to renegotiate those tariff deals simply because President Trump said ‘enough is enough’ and so 75-plus countries are here to do that, to make sure that we have reciprocity, to make sure the American business owner and the American business, the American taxpayer is first not international businesses.”

Moran then turned his attention south again, saying that his constituents want some of Trump’s executive orders about the border to become laws.

“They’re really concerned with trying to get these executive orders codified, there’s a number of different executive orders that President Trump issued that they want to see codified long term in particular through the border security measures. There’s HR2, you go back to 2023, we passed a great border security bill in 2023, that sat in the Senate and didn’t go anywhere,” Moran said. “Now we’ve got a senate and a president that are willing to pass those and get those signed into law. We need to make sure to do that.”

He then finished his Monday interview by discussing regulatory reform and the proposed Trump tax cut plan called the "one big, beautiful bill."

“The other thing that people are talking to me about is making sure that regulatory reform happens, so that the regulations decrease on businesses so that we can see our economy thrive, not just from lower taxes, which is going to happen through the one big, beautiful bill, but through regulatory reform, so that a future president can’t come back in and just start piling on regulatory burdens on our American taxpayers and American businesses.”

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