2024 CNN Town Hall: on Government Reform

Nikki Haley: States passed election integrity laws which we needed

Nikki Haley: Take many federal programs and send them to the states

And then we're going to go and take as many federal programs as we can and send them down to the states. That will reduce the size of the federal government, but it will empower people on the ground. Think health care. Think welfare. Think education -- if we started doing that.

Nikki Haley: Offer "term limit pledge" to all candidates for Congress

HALEY: Absolutely. I mean, I have been a term limit proponent for as long as I can remember. The reality is that Congress has never going to vote for term limits, right? What we do instead is I will have a Haley term limit's pledge. And everyone, when they file for office, incumbent or otherwise, has the option to either sign the term limit pledge or not And then I'm going to put all of that out for you so that you know exactly which candidates are for it, and which candidates are not. And that way you are empowered with the information. And when we get enough of those individuals to sign the term limits pledge that get into Congress, then we will go and say, "it's time to vote on it and hold them to account on that." So, we'll do it from the outside, and I always think the best way to move reforms forward is when you work with the people to push it from the outside in and force Congress to do the right thing.