Ashley Moody pledges to 'fight' for Trump agenda as next Florida senator

So I'm pleased to be able to introduce to you for her first words as the senator appointee from the state of Florida, our Attorney General and your next United States Senator, Ashley Moody. That is because he is deliberate and that takes nothing lightly and understands the importance of this role. Governor, I want you to know I will not let you down. I will not let the citizens of Florida down and I will not let my country down. Six years ago that I met this very eager, passionate guy who wanted to be the governor of Florida and said if we go in there and we implement conservative policy, if we scale back, make sure we return this to a limited government, we will prosper. And look at what Florida has done since. We lead the nation in migration, new business formation and law and order. I can go on and on and it has been at the leadership and direction with this guy right here. And I am proud not to just say I have fought alongside you for six years, but I'm proud to call you a friend and I am very honored with this nomination. Thank you so much. I will bring the same persistence and passion and tenacity as a United States Senator that I have brought as Florida's Attorney General. If you have worked with me and fought with me over the last six years, you know I don't think of this as a job. I think of it as a calling. Every day I go to work, every decision that I make, every person I hire, I do so with the understanding that the people of Florida gave me this opportunity and I want to deliver on what I assured them and that was we were going to protect their rights, we were going to protect the autonomy of this state, we were going to protect our communities. And I believe that we have done that and I think we have to take that same direction to the United States Senate. This guy used to be in Congress and he says to me and has said to me, I don't know why anybody would want that job. I said to him, I kind of agree with you, Governor. I don't know if you can tell, but I'm pretty energetic. I like to get things done, focus on problems, solve the problems, deliver those to the people that hired you, your bosses, the citizens, and there's a lot of deadlock in Washington. And then I thought more about that. And I thought if every person with the same energy, the same love, the respect for our founding principles, the ideals on which this country was built on, if every person like that with that personality said, I don't think I'd like serving in Congress, then we'd never change that culture. And so you're probably right. I probably won't like it, but I'm ready to show up and fight for this nation and fight for President Trump to deliver the American first agenda on day one. What has angered me the most as attorney general, as I've had to fight the Biden administration over the last four years, when we have seen policy after policy, after rule, after financial decisions, spending out of these agencies, as the agencies have gotten bigger, as they have taken more power, as they have tried to tell the states what to do more and more and more, all that does is take the will of the people, the want of the people through their elected representatives in Congress and turns this into a country we don't even recognize anymore. And whether it's agencies making these decisions, when lawmakers should, unelected bureaucrats, or whether it's international organizations making decisions that our lawmakers should, we cannot stand for that. The only way to return this country to the people, the people who govern it, is to make sure we have a strong Congress doing its job, passing laws, and actually approving the regulations that these unelected bureaucrats are trying to cram down on the American people. And I pledge to you, as a United States senator, supporting the REINS Act, supporting any effort to rein back in our out-of-control federal agencies, make sure politics is pushed out of it, make sure we bring down spending. I am all for that, and I've got the backs of the American people, Doge and President Trump on that. I am driven by many things in life. I will bring the influence of many things in my life, my experiences certainly, but I am driven by my faith in God, first and foremost. I am driven by the fact that I am a mother and I still have a kid in school. And whether it was protecting children from social media, from the dangers of fentanyl, the poison that's being pushed into our nation as the result of a wide-open border, whether it's protecting our soldiers, the oldest boy in our family is a soldier. So whether it is supporting them while they are abroad or after they come home, I have their backs. And last but not least, God has blessed me with an amazing husband who's with me, Justin. When I told him I wanted to leave the bench, now mind you, I may be the first senator, governor. I don't know if this went into your plan. He was most excited I'm a trained accountant so I can shrink the bloat of the federal government. But I also served over a decade in the judiciary. I have now served in the executive branch. I may be the only United States senator that is now in my third branch of government and bringing all of that with me to the role. most compelling analysis.