PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) is wrapping up his first year in office. In the first of what will be annual reviews of his performance, he reflected on his accomplishments and where he believes there’s room for improvement.
“I’d say we made a lot of progress on the promises. There’s still some work to be done, and things like permitting reform and other things,” he told KYW Newsradio. “But the thing that was kind of unique about the letter, I also talked about the things that didn’t go well and the lessons that we learned from that.”
McCormick pointed to his work that helped land $92 billion of planned AI and energy investments in Pennsylvania. In the coming year, battling the fentanyl crisis, reforming energy and reining in inflation are at the top of his list.
Among the lessons learned, he lists getting the tone wrong early on and being too polarized.
McCormick’s letter
At the same time, he said he supports President Donald Trump’s recent actions in Venezuela — mainly for the citizens, he said, but also because the country “needs to stop being a place of sanctuary for Iran, for China.”
He questions criticism from Democrats, saying it is “more politics than substance.”
“Because if you look at all the statements that have been made over the last five years by President Biden, Chuck Schumer, everybody agreed that we needed to do more to have a regime change in Venezuela. We now have that,” he said.