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佛罗里达州新任众议员迈克·哈里佐普洛斯在初选中击败众议员科里·米尔斯，并为NASA预算争取到数十亿美元额外拨款
作者：伊丽莎白·埃尔金德 福克斯新闻
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崛起中的众议院共和党人畅谈未来抱负与击败麻烦的共和党议员经历
佛罗里达州众议员迈克·哈里佐普洛斯接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访，谈及自己短时间内积累的巨大影响力、与共和党团队的协作，以及他反对的两大核心议题。
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时间来到2026年6月，盛夏的酷暑正慢慢席卷东海岸。在佛罗里达州，一场不同寻常的政治风暴正威胁着共和党人——这场政治反弹风暴轻则迫使共和党在中期选举中多投入数百万美元，重则让本应稳固的共和党众议院席位旁落。
佛罗里达州共和党众议员迈克·哈里佐普洛斯是最早公开敲响警钟的人之一，他提醒人们注意深陷困境的佛罗里达州众议员科里·米尔斯，以及可能破坏其连任前景的多起丑闻。对于一名首次任职的国会议员来说，这是一项不同寻常的大胆举动，尤其是在众议院共和党领导层和白宫仍公开支持米尔斯的情况下。
但哈里佐普洛斯的计划执行得十分周密——在佛罗里达州共和党众议员安娜·保利娜·卢娜的协助下，米尔斯成为2026年中期选举周期中仅有的四名输掉初选的共和党在任议员之一。共和党选举观察人士对此稍感宽慰，私下里认为，哈里佐普洛斯招募的前记者瑞安·伊莱贾对阵民主党前NASA官员贝尔·道尔顿，他们的胜算更大。
哈里佐普洛斯不仅在幕后助力，还亲自出马。这位前本地新闻主播表示，他在初选辩论中“就坐在前排正中间”。
共和党人在激烈初选中计划罢免陷入困境的佛罗里达州共和党议员
2026年4月17日，佛罗里达州众议员迈克·哈里佐普洛斯在太空海岸入伍仪式上发言，纪念当地即将毕业并参军的学生。（马尔科姆·德纳马克/《今日美国》网络通过伊马根图片社）
“他不仅到场，还相当于我们的‘ spin room（ Spin room指竞选活动后媒体解读区）’，他接受了大量媒体采访，这对我们来说至关重要，”伊莱贾告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
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哈里佐普洛斯对福克斯新闻数字频道表示：“我当时就意识到，科里·米尔斯肯定会在大选中输给实力强劲的民主党候选人。因此我去找了领导层，当然还有总统团队，说‘听着，我们得想办法让米尔斯主动退选’。”
“不幸的是，米尔斯先生不愿意退选。所以我告知领导层和总统，我将在初选中支持其他人，”他继续说道，“挑战一位同事绝非易事，但……这是团队运动，我们所有人都需要通力合作。”
观看：科里·米尔斯在佛罗里达州初选前抨击司法部调查为“政治操作”
“团队运动”是这位佛罗里达州共和党人经常使用的类比，他也用这个词来定义自己在众议院的任期。
到目前为止，这一定位为他带来了回报，哈里佐普洛斯与众议院共和党领导层以及同僚都建立了密切的关系。
“他是值得信赖的盟友，是你可以依靠的人。他说到做到，你永远不必担心他的立场，”与众议员哈里佐普洛斯相识约二十年的众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯（路易斯安那州共和党）对福克斯新闻数字频道表示。
前本地电视新闻主播瑞安·伊莱贾在高风险的佛罗里达州共和党初选中击败众议员科里·米尔斯。（迈克·麦克莱恩/瑞安·伊莱贾竞选团队）
两位政客最初是在各自的州议会中建立联系的。当哈里佐普洛斯宣布将参选国会议员时，斯卡利斯说他告诉哈里佐普洛斯：“我想成为你的第一张捐款支票……我想支持你。”
在短短任职时间内，他就已经受托领导一个众议院委员会。尽管资历尚浅，哈里佐普洛斯还是担任了众议院科学、空间和技术委员会空间小组委员会主席一职，这一职位对他所在选区拥有肯尼迪航天中心的人来说再合适不过。
这位佛罗里达州新任议员表示，太空一直是他的热情所在，最早可以追溯到他作为州议员推动航天飞机项目重返家乡的努力。
NASA阿尔忒弥斯后续任务即将到来 月球飞行大获成功
“当时很多人担心我们会回到阿波罗时代之后的状态，这对佛罗里达州中部的经济非常不利。当时里克·斯科特还是州长……我们决定不能只依赖NASA，而是要推动建立公私合作伙伴关系，”哈里佐普洛斯说。
过去两年，美国太空领域取得了前所未有的成功复苏，部分动力就来自哈里佐普洛斯所推动的公私合作伙伴关系。NASA刚刚在今年完成了具有历史意义的阿尔忒弥斯II号任务，将四名宇航员送上月球并顺利返回，这是几十年来的首次此类任务。
2026年4月22日，佛罗里达州众议员科里·米尔斯在华盛顿特区美国国会山接受记者采访。（凯文·迪耶特/盖蒂图片社）
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“我非常有信心，两年内我们就能再次登月，”哈里佐普洛斯说。
这在很大程度上也要归功于联邦政府对这场新太空竞赛的投入，而特朗普政府曾在2025年5月最初提议将NASA预算削减约24%。
哈里佐普洛斯将太空视为国家安全的另一个前沿阵地，对此感到警觉。他当时在2025年5月告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，他将寻求与白宫进行“建设性对话”，争取更高的预算额度。
“我不确定最终数字会是多少，但在我与总统就太空问题的交谈中，他对此绝对持坚定支持态度，”他在2025年5月说道。
最终，唐纳德·特朗普总统签署了一项拨款法案，其中为NASA拨款244亿美元——而非最初提议的188亿美元，并在《One Big, Beautiful Bill Act》（《一项宏大美丽法案》）中额外批准了99亿美元。
NASA局长贾里德·艾萨克曼对福克斯新闻数字频道表示，哈里佐普洛斯“明白美国太空未来的很大一部分都取决于佛罗里达州和肯尼迪航天中心”。
“他对使命认真负责，愿意就棘手问题展开讨论，始终专注于如何推进工作，”艾萨克曼说。
在踏入政坛之前，哈里佐普洛斯是东佛罗里达州立学院（当时的校名）的历史学教授。他的母亲是美国人，父亲是希腊移民，目前与妻子斯蒂芬妮·哈里佐普洛斯结婚——斯蒂芬妮是一名医生，过去几个月担任代理卫生部长。
2026年8月28日，在休斯顿约翰逊航天中心，唐纳德·特朗普总统接过阿尔忒弥斯II号机组人员克里斯蒂娜·科赫、维克多·格洛弗、里德·怀斯曼和杰里米·汉森赠送的飞行夹克，此前机组人员接受了国会太空荣誉勋章。（马克·席尔费尔贝因/美联社照片）
尽管取得了诸多成就并建立了广泛人脉，但哈里佐普洛斯的名字并未像那些在公开场合反抗共和党领导层或批评特朗普的高调众议院共和党人那样登上头条。
这是因为他更倾向于在幕后解决争端，这种政治手腕在这个将关注度视为政治资本的时代已经基本被摒弃了。
“当你听到国会议员说‘哦，我想上电视’时，通常意味着‘啊哦，有人要为了上电视做些疯狂的事了’。但他不一样……他想通过成为一名优秀、可靠的政党信使，合法地赢得自己的出镜机会，”一位熟悉哈里佐普洛斯团队的共和党助手告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
这位助手表示，在电视台寻求戏剧性的冲突故事时，这种行事风格可能会带来挑战，但他的沟通能力还是为他赢得了“大量”媒体曝光机会。
这位助手还说，他们亲眼目睹哈里佐普洛斯拒绝了不符合他日程安排的媒体采访，转而主动帮助其他众议院共和党议员争取出镜机会。
“他一直在想办法帮助领导层，也帮助其他同僚，尤其是他的新任议员同事，”这位助手说。
哈里佐普洛斯对福克斯新闻数字频道谈到共和党多数派阵营中日益常见的混乱局面时表示：“我的目标之一是告诉那些总是在会议结束后站在镜头前的人，我们需要做的更多是在党团会议上展开激烈辩论。不是通过媒体，而是像一家人一样，然后以团结的姿态走出来。我认为这是解决问题的最佳方式。”
他还以提供筹款方面的帮助而闻名——正如斯卡利斯所说，“他筹集了大量资金”。
在这个 largely transactional（高度功利化）的政治世界里，他的政治手腕引发了一些人的质疑：哈里佐普洛斯对自己的未来有何规划，他希望通过建立这些关系实现什么目标。
“他知道如何与人合作，如何推进自己的目标，”这位共和党助手说，“我可以看到他进入高层领导层……而且比人们预期的要快。”
斯卡利斯表示：“迈克前途光明，因为他天生就是领导者。”
2025年4月15日，众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯在纽约证券交易所早间交易前发言。（亚当·格雷/盖蒂图片社）
但哈里佐普洛斯坚称，他的所有努力都致力于共和党整体的更大利益。
“很多人问我，今年选举结束后是否会谋求领导职位。我绝对不会谋求这类领导职位，”他说，“有些议员已经在国会任职三、四或五届了，我认为他们才真正为此付出了努力。”
他提到了同僚，比如同为新任议员的佐治亚州众议员布莱恩·杰克、共和党研究委员会主席得克萨斯州众议员奥古斯特·普弗鲁格，以及印第安纳州众议员鲁迪·亚吉姆。
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“如果我专注于团队合作，我相信未来会有好事发生，”哈里佐普洛斯说。
伊丽莎白·埃尔金德是福克斯新闻数字频道的政治记者，负责众议院报道。此前曾在《每日邮报》和CBS新闻发表文章。
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GOP rising star helped topple Trump-backed incumbent. Now he’s caught leadership’s eye
October 4, 2026 8:00am EDT / Fox News
Florida freshman Rep Mike Haridopolos helped oust Rep Cory Mills in a primary and secured billions more for NASA’s budget
By Elizabeth Elkind, Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6406123848112
Rising star House Republican talks future ambitions, ousting problematic GOP lawmaker
Rep. Mike Haridopolos of Florida spoke with Fox News Digital about the considerable influence he’s accumulated in a short amount of time, his team work with the GOP, and the two big issues he’s pushed back on.
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It’s June 2026 and the summer’s intense heat is slowly creeping across the East Coast. In Florida, a different kind of heat is threatening to burn Republicans — a firestorm of political backlash that could at best force the GOP to spend millions more in the midterms, and at worst cost the party what should be a safely red House seat.
Rep. Mike Haridopolos, R-Fla., was one of the first to sound the alarm publicly about embattled Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., and the scandals that could have sandbagged his re-election chances. It’s an unusually bold move for a first-term congressman, particularly when the House GOP leadership and the White House were still publicly backing Mills.
But Haridopolos’ plan was well-executed — and with the help of Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., Mills went down as one of only four Republican incumbents to lose a primary in the 2026 midterm cycle. Republican election watchers saw the loss with some relief, privately feeling better about their chances with former journalist Ryan Elijah, who Haridopolos recruited to run, against Democratic former NASA official Bale Dalton.
And Haridopolos was there with Elijah both figuratively and literally. The former local news anchor said he was “right there in the front row” during the primary debate.
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Rep. Mike Haridopolos, R-Fla., speaks at the Enlistment Ceremony of the Space Coast to honor area graduating students enlisting in the armed services after graduation on April 17, 2026.(Malcolm Denemark/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
“Not only was he there, he was kind of like the spin room. He did a lot of the media interviews, and that was huge for us,” Elijah told Fox News Digital.
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Haridopolos told Fox News Digital, “I recognized that Cory Mills was absolutely going to lose a general election against a solid Democrat candidate. And so I went to the leadership and, of course, the president’s team and said, ‘Look, we need to find a way for Mills to step aside.’”
“Unfortunately, Mr. Mills was not willing to step aside. And so I let the leadership and the president know that I’d be helping someone else in the primary,” he continued. “It was not the easiest thing to do, taking on a colleague. But… this is a team sport and all of us need to work together.”
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“Team sport” is an analogy that the Florida Republican has used frequently, and one that he’s used to try and define his tenure in the House.
It’s paid off for him so far, with Haridopolos forging close relationships with both House GOP leaders and his peers.
“He’s a trusted ally and somebody you can count on. He delivers. You never have to worry about where he’s going to be,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., who has known Haridopolos for roughly two decades, told Fox News Digital.
Former local TV news anchor Ryan Elijah unseated Rep. Cory Mills in a high-stakes Florida GOP primary race.(Mike McClain/Ryan Elijah for Congress)
The two politicos first forged a relationship in their respective state houses. When Haridopolos said he would launch a campaign for Congress, Scalise said he told him, “I want to be your first check… I want to support you.”
And in his short time so far, he’s already been entrusted to lead a House panel. Haridopolos is chair of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee’s space subcommittee, a fitting position for someone whose district is home to the Kennedy Space Center despite his junior status.
The Florida freshman said space has long been a passion of his, dating back to his efforts as a state lawmaker to bring the shuttle program back to his backyard.
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“So many people were concerned that we’d go back to the post-Apollo days, which are very detrimental to the economy of Central Florida. And so at that time, Rick Scott was governor… We decided that we needed to not just rely on NASA but start pushing for public-private partnerships,” Haridopolos said.
The U.S. has seen an unprecedented resurgence of success in space in the last two years, partly propelled by the public-private partnerships that Haridopolos is pushing. NASA completed its historic Artemis II mission just this year, sending four astronauts around the moon and back in the first such mission in decades.
Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on April 22, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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“I’m really confident that in two years we’ll be landing back on the moon,” Haridopolos said.
That’s also due in no small part to the federal government investing in the new space race, after the Trump administration initially proposed a roughly 24% cut to NASA’s budget in May 2025.
Haridopolos, seeing space as another frontier for national security, was alarmed. He told Fox News Digital at the time that he would seek a “constructive conversation with the White House” about a higher figure.
“I’m not sure what that number will be in the end, but in my conversations with the president about space, he’s absolutely committed to it,” he said in May 2025.
Eventually, President Donald Trump signed into law a spending bill that included $24.4 billion for NASA — rather than the initial $18.8 billion proposal — and approved an additional $9.9 billion in the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told Fox News Digital that Haridopolos “understands that so much of America’s future in space runs through Florida and Kennedy Space Center.”
“He is serious about the mission, willing to engage on the hard issues, and always focused on how we can move the ball forward,” Isaacman said.
Before his political career began, Haridopolos was a history professor at what is now Eastern Florida State College. He was born to an American mother and Greek immigrant father, and is currently married to Stephanie Haridopolos — a physician by profession who has spent the last several months as acting surgeon general.
President Donald Trump holds up a flight jacket presented to him by Artemis II crew members Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen after the crew accepted the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on Aug. 28, 2026, at Johnson Space Center in Houston.(Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)
But despite his accomplishments and connections, Haridopolos’ name is not one that has garnered headlines in the way that more bombastic House Republicans have in their public defiance of GOP leaders or criticism of Trump.
That’s because he prefers to settle disputes behind closed doors, a hallmark of politics that has largely been abandoned in an age where attention is seen as political currency.
“When you hear members of Congress saying, like, ‘Oh, I want you to get me on TV,’ it’s usually like, ‘Uh-oh, someone’s about to do something crazy here to get on TV.’ He was like… I’m going to earn my spot on there legitimately by being a good, reliable messenger for the party,” a Republican aide familiar with Haridopolos’ operation told Fox News Digital.
The aide said that could pose a challenge in times when television networks were looking for dramatic tales of discord, but that his communication skills still got him a “high volume” of press.
That aide said they also witnessed Haridopolos turn down media interviews that did not fit his schedule, but offer to help fellow House Republicans secure that spot instead.
“He was just finding ways to help out leadership, but also just his fellow members, especially his fellow freshman members,” the aide said.
Haridopolos told Fox News Digital of the chaos that’s become a regular facet of Republicans’ majority, “One of my goals is to tell those folks who always stand [in front of cameras] after we finish the session, you know, what we need to do more is spend time in the caucus having these knock-down, drag-outs. Not through the press, but as a family, and come out there unified. I think it’s the best way to solve problems.”
He’s also been known to offer help on the fundraising side — as Scalise put it, “He raises a lot of money.”
The political maneuvering has raised questions for some about where Haridopolos sees his future and what he’s looking to get out of the relationships he is building in a largely transactional world.
“He knows how to work with people and how to advance what he wants,” the Republican aide said. “I could see him in senior leadership… and sooner than people expect.”
Scalise said, “Mike has a bright future, because he’s a natural leader.”
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise on the New York Stock Exchange before morning trading on April 15, 2025.(Adam Gray/Getty Images)
But Haridopolos has insisted that his efforts are all dedicated to the greater good of the Republican Party.
“A lot of people have asked me if I’m going to pursue a leadership position after the elections this year. I’m absolutely not going to pursue one of those leadership positions,” he said. “There’s people who have been in Congress for three, four, or five terms who I think have really put that effort in.”
He named members like fellow freshman Rep. Brian Jack, R-Ga., Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas, and Rep. Rudy Yakym, R-Ind.
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“If I’m focused on the team, I think great things could happen in the future,” Haridopolos said.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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