Sen. Katie Britt: Trump will show his ‘strength’ on immigration in first 100 days

U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, R- Ala. , said that Americans should expect a show of 'strength' from President-elect Donald Trump on his first 100 days back in office on Fox News' "Livin' the Bream" podcast this week.

"This will be my first opportunity to be in the majority (in the Senate), obviously my first opportunity to have a Republican in the White House," Britt told host Shannon Bream.

"And certainly, my first opportunity to be a part of what they call 'the trifecta.' One party having the White House, the House, and the Senate."

"And with that and with the way that the vote went down on Nov. 5, the American people spoke, and they spoke loudly. And with that comes a lot of responsibility and people are going to expect actual results."

Britt said one area people could expect to see results quickly is the country's border control and immigration policies.

"You look at where we are and obviously, I think you'll see President Trump come in with a significant amount of strength looking at a number of the executive orders that President Biden put in place," she said.

"I mean (Biden) did 94 executive orders his first 100 days that undid a lot of the progress that President Trump had made during his administration. So, you'll likely see a great deal of that coming out immediately out of the gate."

Trump has pledged to launch the largest deportation operation in the country's history with Tom Homan, his former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, as his "border czar" and recently named longtime adviser Stephen Miller , an immigration hard-liner, to be the deputy chief of policy in his new administration.

Britt said the Republican party would be working across the aisle on funding decisions related to 'border barriers' and other immigration policies.

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Britt said she would also be working with her Democratic colleagues on several other issues that hit closer to home, using maternal mortality as one example.

"Alabama has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the nation ," she said.

"We move back and forth from unfortunately being on the top of that list. It disproportionately affects Black women and [Sen.] Laphonza [Butler, D-Calif.,] and I believe in 2024 that absolutely shouldn't be the case."

"So, there are a number of things we could continue to talk about, example after example after example where we have really significant challenges in front of us as a nation. And you do have people who are willing to get in a room and try to figure out a solid path forward to actually help the people that we serve. So, I do think we need more of that."