President Donald J. Trump on Saturday shared the words of Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, who said Republicans should use the weeks left in this Congress to confirm the president’s nominees and pass a list of bills.

Mr. Kennedy, a Republican, spoke in an interview with Kayleigh McEnany on Fox News. Mr. Trump posted two of the senator’s quotes on Truth Social and called him “Highly Respected Senator John Kennedy, of Louisiana.”

“I’m going to fight and get all of the President’s Nominees confirmed. Get the Permitting Bill passed,” the senator said in the first quote the president shared. A permitting bill deals with how the federal government approves building projects.

Mr. Kennedy also said, “I want to do a Reconciliation Bill, which we can pass with no Democrat votes, provide money for the Military, money for Air Control.” Reconciliation is a special budget process. It lets some tax and spending bills pass the Senate with a simple majority instead of the 60 votes most bills need.

The senator listed more goals: a bill to ban stock trading, a bill on what he called “Pardon Brokers,” and a “Fraud Bill,” all “in the next 50 days.” He said money for the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency that runs the nation’s air traffic system, should be handled in a separate bill.

In a second post, the president shared another line from the interview: “Some people worry about losing, I worry about not trying. I can explain a loss, I can’t explain to my people why I didn’t try!”

According to Fox News, Mr. Kennedy urged Republican lawmakers to work through the holidays to deal with government funding and with Friday’s nationwide flight outage, which grounded planes across the country for hours.

His call matches a plan Senate Republicans agreed to earlier this week. According to a resolution obtained by Fox News Digital, they pledged to “maximize the 54 days we have with congressional majorities, to confirm every judicial nominee and every executive nominee that the conference approves of, to pass our core Republican priorities, and to do everything humanly possible to pass a reconciliation bill before Jan. 3.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said at the time, “But we are going to finish this legislative session strong.”