Liz Peek appeared on Fox Business Network’s Varney & Co. on Monday to discuss two major issues facing the Republican Party and the Trump administration: inaction from Senate Republicans and the expansion of the Abraham Accords.
Senate Republicans: “Practically Nothing”
Peek didn’t hold back on the Senate GOP establishment, arguing they have been quietly uncooperative with the Trump White House since he first came down the escalator in 2016.
“What are they going to run on in November?” Peek asked. “One reconciliation bill that Trump pushed through last year that continued the low tax rates of his earlier term in office. That did a lot. But where’s everything else?”
She pointed to voter ID laws — which poll at roughly 80 percent approval with the American public — as a prime example of a missed opportunity. With Republican majorities in both chambers, Peek argued they could have forced a simple, standalone bill and made Democrats vote against it.
“Where’s voter ID laws? How about just a single item bill requiring voter ID? Nothing else. Just make Democrats vote against that,” she said.
Housing reform, DHS funding, and a potential third reconciliation bill all remain stuck in what Peek described as “the legislative bureaucracy.”
She also noted that while Trump’s approval ratings “aren’t great,” Congress’s numbers are worse — a point host Stuart Varney quickly agreed with.
Peek acknowledged Trump has made some missteps of his own, including pushing for ballroom funding in the spending bill after promising it would be privately funded. “Most people agree that the White House needs a ballroom. But to get bogged down in this — terrible timing,” she said.
Abraham Accords: Momentum From an Unlikely Source
On the foreign policy front, Peek was more optimistic. Trump has called on six Muslim-majority countries to join the Abraham Accords, and Peek sees a real path forward — partly because of Iran’s aggression against Gulf Arab states.
“The Gulf Arab states are thinking, well, heck, where are our best interests aligned? And they’re certainly not aligned with Iran,” she said, noting that countries like the UAE have benefited enormously from their existing ties with Israel.
While Saudi Arabia remains the key holdout and is currently at odds with the UAE, Peek said even getting two or three more signatories would create meaningful momentum.
“Even if he got just two or three more, the momentum would be significant. And it would be a real win that, by the way, in some ways facilitated by the Iran war,” she said.
Jordan, she added, should be “an easy sign up.”
Liz Peek appeared on Varney & Co. on Fox Business Network on May 26, 2026.
