Key facts
- Colom said voters elected him to make sure Trump follows through on commitments made in 2024.
- Colom said he would support legislation restricting stock trading by members of Congress.
- Colom unseated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in the November 3 midterm elections.
- Democrats flipped eight Senate seats and gained more than three dozen House seats, the report said.
- Colom appeared remotely from Atlanta after his flight was canceled in the FAA ground stop's aftermath.
Scott Colom, elected to the US Senate from Mississippi in the November 3 midterm elections, said in interviews with CNN and NBC News on Sunday that he would work to make sure Donald Trump follows through on the commitments he made while running for a second presidency in 2024, The Independent reported.
Colom pointed to Trump campaign promises including lowering consumer prices, halting wars waged under other administrations and fully releasing files related to the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein, the late accused sex trafficker. The report said prices for fuel and other goods rose after Trump and Israel started a war with Iran in February, and that critics have said many of the Epstein files were left out of disclosures by the administration.
"Voters elected me to make sure he follows through on the commitments he made in 2024," Colom said, according to the report. He also said he intended to support legislation restricting stock trading by members of Congress, saying Americans should know lawmakers in Washington "aren't making money instead of looking out for them."
In the NBC interview, Colom said: "I'm not here to look out for the billionaires. I'm here to look out for working people."
Colom unseated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, becoming the first Black US senator from Mississippi since 1875 and the first Mississippi Democrat elected to the Senate in more than four decades. The report said his win came about three years after Hyde-Smith blocked his nomination for a federal judgeship during Joe Biden's presidency.
The report said Democrats flipped eight Senate seats and gained more than three dozen House seats, taking control of Congress for the second half of Trump's second presidency beginning in January. With the Alaska Senate race still pending on Sunday, Trump has pointed to his veto power, the report said.
Colom appeared on both networks remotely from Atlanta, where he was stranded after his flight to Washington was canceled in the aftermath of Friday's nationwide Federal Aviation Administration ground stop. At the airport on Saturday night, the report said, Colom posted about other travelers' frustrations, including a passenger's joke about Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.