Wyoming was one of the few GOP bright spots on Nov. 3, and Hageman, who served two terms in the House, will soon transition to the Senate after defeating Democrat James Byrd with almost 70% of the vote.
While completing her work in the House, she is being briefed on Senate business in preparation for the January move.
Confirming President Donald Trump's judicial and Cabinet nominees will top the to-do list in the upper chamber as the days of GOP control dwindle quickly.
"They are going to be voting on judicial nominees and any Cabinet nominees, and that's going to be one of the highest priorities," Hageman told show host Tony Perkins.
In his second term, the Senate has confirmed 57 of Trump's judicial nominees, making roughly one-third of active federal judges Trump appointees, CBS reports.
That influence will wane as Democrats take control of the Senate.
There are currently 28 vacancies in federal courts and another 15 seats expected to open in the coming weeks and months. Trump has formally advanced 16 nominees to the Senate and mentioned another three names this week for district courts in Texas and South Carolina.
The GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee is working quickly to move nominees through the process.
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But there's more on the plate for Senate Republicans in 2027, and Hageman believes they'll be in position to get things done — largely because of distracted Democrats.
"The reality is the Democrats are much more vulnerable than many other people may think right now, especially after last Tuesday's election," she said.
But why?
"I say that because they didn't run on what they're actually going to do when they get into the Senate and the House. Over the last week, they have been signaling that this is about retribution, about investigations, that this is about going after individuals either in the Trump Cabinet or even President Trump himself," Hageman said.
There are only so many hours in the day. Democratic leadership that makes a vendetta its chief work won't have time to address gas and groceries, she predicts.
"What they ran on was affordability. What they consistently talked about was gasoline is too high, housing is too high, it costs too much to send our kids to college, and all of those things," Hageman said.
That much is true, but she said the high costs are the result of Democratic policies coming home to roost.
Democrats have fought tooth-and-nail against building a new refinery in the United States, Hageman said. Gas and diesel prices in the U.S. are not the result of quantity issues but refining capacity issues.
"We can bring down prices right here in America, but we have a refining capacity issue. The Democrats won't allow us to build the infrastructure that we need to refine additional petroleum products," Hageman said.
The same applies to housing with respect to management of national forests:
"We have to import the vast majority of our lumber from Canada and elsewhere because we're not allowed to manage our own forests, and then we watch them burn to the ground."
Meanwhile, it appears Democrats' first priorities will be retribution and reversing Republican gains on lower taxes, border security and health care reform, key components of the One Big Beautiful Bill that was birthed in the House and signed by Trump on July 3, 2025.
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Hageman challenges Democrats to prove her wrong.
"I'm ready to work with anybody who wants to actually talk about prices and bring them down," she said.
Until then, she will work to hold Democrats accountable for their priorities, serving as a vocal reminder of ignored campaign promises.
"I'm going to make sure that the American public does not forget that. I believe in affordability. I have pursued policies that would do that," she said.
