Washington, March 29 -- Congressman Steve Scalise issued the following press release:

Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined ABC News' This Week to discuss President Trump's efforts to stop a nuclear Iran and House Republicans' push to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security amid heightened threats.

Highlights from Leader Scalise's interview:

On President Trump's decisive action to prevent a nuclear Iran:

"If you look at what President Trump has laid out in terms of the objectives, he's been meeting them. He's been very clear about what those objectives are. And I think the whole world knows that a nuclear-armed Iran would have been a danger to the world... And so President Trump's doing something that, frankly...