Senator Marshall Joins Newsmax to Discuss the President’s ‘One, Big Beautiful Bill,’ The SALT Deduction, and the Golden Dome Defense System

Washington – U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas) joined Shaun Kraisman and Emma Rechenberg on Newsmax this morning to discuss the status of President Donald Trump’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill,’ what’s next for the reconciliation process regarding State and Local Tax (SALT) Deduction, and the ‘Golden Dome’ defense system announced by the President and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth yesterday.

You may click HERE or above to watch Senator Marshall’s full interview on Newsmax

Highlights from the interview include:

On President Trump helping close out the negotiations: 

Senator Marshall: “I thought about this this weekend during a baseball game. If the House, if this was a baseball game, the House is going into the seventh inning, and we’re going to have to bring our closer in sooner than expected. So, we’re going to bring in Donald Trump. And you think of all the great closers in the history of baseball, you’ve got Goose Gossage who had a fastball. So, we’ll bring him in the eighth inning, and then the ninth inning President Trump will be like Mario Rivera, who has his cutter.

“So, look, if it wasn’t for President Trump, this doesn’t happen, but I do believe in Speaker Johnson, President Trump, they’ll get it across the finish line. Send it over here and we’ll make the bill even better.”

On the SALT Deduction negotiations:

Senator Marshall: “If you think about where the big divisions are on this bill, it’s the SALT tax… You have some Republicans from districts that are blue, and they want this SALT tax to go up. And by the way, it’s going to cost $1 trillion dollars over the next 10 years, and you have conservative Republicans like myself who say the biggest issue in the country right now is our national debt. And there’s so many other things we could do with that trillion dollars rather than spending it, you know, giving these people from blue states a big tax break as well.

“So, President Trump is trying to find that sweet spot. This bill is not perfect. This is not the bill that a conservative Republican like myself would write, but we’re getting there. This is the first step towards a balanced budget. We need to deliver on the President’s promises.”

On the Golden Dome Defense System:

Senator Marshall: “Well, obviously this would give us a big advantage. If we could shoot down all the Chinese nuclear warheads and their warp speed missiles that they have as well, this would just put our military at a big, big advantage. But to me this is a defensive weapon, as far as United States has been concerned.

“Look, we don’t want to rule the world. We just want to make sure our families are safe and secure. I think this will be a great investment. $175 billion is what the President’s going to spend on this probably. Think about this, we spent $200 billion in Ukraine and I don’t know what that did for the safety of American citizens.

“I think that you know, this takes me back to my boyhood when they announced… going to the moon. And this is something that Americans can rally around together, that we can cheer for together. We don’t have the technology to complete this yet. It looks next to impossible. I would put this way ahead of any purpose of going to Mars for America right now. So, I think this is a good investment. It’s going to make Americans safer – that’s what President Trump promised us. He said he’s going to make our family safer and more secure. So, I’m behind it, I’m excited about the technology, and there will be so many other benefits from this technology going forward as we develop this.”

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