Senator Marshall: We’re Going to Make America Healthy Again
Senator Marshall Joins Newsmax to Discuss the MAHA Commission Report, The Texas Redistricting Fight, and Securing the Border
Wichita – On Monday, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Newsmax’s Wake Up America to discuss the Make America Health Again Commission report, the fight over Texas’s redistricting efforts, and what President Trump’s biggest accomplishment to date is.
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On eating healthy and fresh foods as a form of medicine:
“I asked my kids, what’s the latest greatest diet? And they said, Dad, it’s what you grew up on. I grew up surrounded by family farms, eating fresh fruit and vegetables out of the garden. Right now, all those fruits and vegetables are in season, as they say, and they just melt in your mouth. I think that, you know, the whole emphasis of MAHA is that food is medicine, that if you have healthy food, you’re going to have healthy people. And there’s nothing healthier than fresh out of the farmer’s garden. Maybe start your own garden as well. I would challenge all your listeners to not open a box today. Stay away from the ultra-processed foods. Eat fresh, if you have to, frozen is second best.”
On the upcoming MAHA commission report:
“Well, we got to get the report right, and if they’re not ready, they’re not ready. It’s a very complicated subject. I can just tell you a couple of points I think that are interesting. I think, number one, you know, the emphasis is that Food is Medicine. How do we get healthy food? From the agriculture perspective, I just want to brag on my farmers that we are growing more with less, that the early adapters are using 60% less fertilizers, 60% less pesticides, and we’re decreasing the drift from those fields by 90%. So, we’re trying to decrease the amount of fertilizers and pesticides [that] end up reaching the water systems as well.
“So our farmers and ranchers are embracing this… First of all, we’re parents, we’re grandparents. We want our children to be healthy. We want our grandchildren to be healthy as well. So I think that the first part of the MAHA report is going to be about… what healthier food looks like, what it looks like, throwing away that box food that I mentioned. And then exercise, some form of exercise every day, introducing them to the Presidential Fitness Test. Again, by the way, I’m going to work on a congressional fitness test as well. So maybe we’ll start there.”
On the Texas redistricting battle:
“Well, this is the Democrats, the pot calling the kettle black for decades, for probably over a century now, Gerrymandering has been occurring. It started in Massachusetts in 1812 and continued throughout this century as well. California took away 12 Republican seats through Gerrymandering earlier, around 2008, I believe, as well. So it’s been going on for centuries.
“Look, Texas has changed a lot in the last two decades as well. Many people are leaving blue states to come to red states, where your constitutional rights are indeed protected… the Constitution gives Texas the right to do this. The Supreme Court has confirmed that right in the past. So I’m going to stay out of it. I’m going to focus on making America healthy.”
On what the biggest win for the Trump administration has been to date:
“Oh, it’s the border. That was the number one issue the President campaigned on, securing the border. Within a matter of weeks, the President has secured the border, so our families are safer than they were in January of this year. Fentanyl poisoning is going down. Drug-related crime is going down as well across the country. So it’s that our families are safe and secure. The price of gasoline coming down is a big deal as well.”
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