Thune Joins America’s Newsroom on Fox News
“[T]he goals in this bill are a safer America, a stronger America, and a more prosperous America.”
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined America’s Newsroom on Fox News.
On Republicans’ priorities:
“[T]he goals in this bill are a safer America, a stronger America, and a more prosperous America … An average family in South Dakota, if we don’t pass this bill, will face a $2,500 tax increase at the end of this year. That is the real-world impact of this on people.
“Plus, you get the energy, the regulatory, the tax policy working in a way that creates economic growth, that creates better-paying jobs, people’s incomes go up, that enables them to do more for them and their families. So that’s what this is about. It’s about a growing, dynamic, expanding economy that makes America safer, stronger, and more prosperous for the long run.”
On enacting President Trump’s agenda:
“Failure here is not an option. And this is the fulfillment and implementation, this bill, of the president’s agenda. It’s securing the border. It’s modernizing our military. It’s making America energy dominant. It’s tax relief for working families. It’s reducing the size and scale and cost of government by getting rid of waste, fraud, and abuse.
“This is what the American people voted for, and that’s what we intend to deliver. So failure is not an option. There’s a lot … of swirl at this point in the legislative process. And so we’re hearing people out, working, responding to their feedback and taking their input, trying to incorporate things into the bill that make it stronger and better.
“But we have to get this done, and I’m hopeful that we will succeed by the end of the week here in the Senate. Then we’ll see what the House can do and if we can get it on the president’s desk soon.”
On U.S. involvement in Iran:
“I was a senior in high school in 1979 when the shah was overthrown in Iran, and the botched Carter administration’s response to that was one of the reasons I voted for Ronald Reagan, my first presidential vote, in 1980. And I think that what happened over the weekend was one of the reasons the American people voted for President Trump. It is peace through strength. What he did was historic. It should be viewed through that lens. And the Democrats are going to complain loudly, but they are just flat on the wrong side of history on this issue.”
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“[President Trump is] perfectly within his authority, Dana, there’s no question about that. And the Democrat arguments to the contrary, I mean, what you heard just there, that is Trump Derangement Syndrome on full display. Pure and simple, nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. That’s what they’re going to do. They’re going to scream.
“But the fact the matter is, legally, constitutionally, and obviously from a historic and moral side of this argument, the president was on solid ground – and the American people know that, which is why I believe a majority of Americans, including a lot of Democrats, support what the president did.”
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