Senator Marshall: My Prescription for America is a Healthy Diet & an Active Lifestyle
Senator Marshall Joins Newsmax to Discuss Trade Deadlines, Rescissions, & the Presidential Fitness Test
Washington – On Friday, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Sharla McBride and Marc Lotter on Newsmax’s Wake Up America to discuss President Trump’s trade deals, the potential of an additional rescissions package request, and President Trump’s revival of the Presidential Fitness Test in our schools.
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“I’m going to focus on the positive here. President Trump has negotiated trade agreements with eight of our top 10 trade partners. The only ones really sitting outside of the majority of the trade between us would be Taiwan and India. As you pointed out here, China is due August 12th. I want you just to think about how President Trump is boxing in China. Here he’s done the UK, the European Union. Jump over to Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, [and] Australia. So, he’s boxing in China now, August the 12th. By August 12th, we’re going to have a great deal done. Look, most everything that’s grown in Kansas is still flowing freely to Canada and to Mexico, with the exception of milk, type of products as well, and vice versa. And we’ll renegotiate USMC in a year. So, I think everything is right on schedule, right on Trump time.”
On lower courts slowing the Trump agenda:
“Well, first of all, these lower courts are way out of bounds. They’re going way beyond their jurisdiction. I think the Supreme Court has said that over and over again; they’ll have to appeal this. It’s too bad they’re slowing up the Trump agenda, right? That’s what these courts are doing. They’re slowing the Trump agenda, slowing the will of 78 million people who elected President Trump. Look, certainly the talks. I’m on the Subcommittee on trade on the Finance Committee, working with our chairman, Crapo, and the subcommittee chairman, Senator Cornyn, as well. Some type of a trade agreements with these countries to make them long-lasting. You know, what’s going to happen when President Trump is done? President Trump is done here in three years. So, we need to put some teeth to these agreements as well.”
On an additional rescissions package:
“Well, Marc, that’s a target-rich environment there. And I want to compliment Senator Joni Ernst, who’s leading the DOGE caucus, and really has been involved with this since day one. Look, there are hundreds of billions of dollars that they could bring to us. I don’t necessarily have a wish list. I really think we go back to USAID, that was $40 billion in there. We were sending about $8 billion of that as well. I don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but I still think there’s some opportunity there. My specialty may be the waste and fraud that’s going on in Medicare and Medicaid. So, I would probably like to tackle some of that as well.”
On the revival of the Presidential Fitness Test:
“President Eisenhower started this back in 1954, Kansas’ favorite son, Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States. We started this program. Look, 20% of our children are on a prescription drug. 40% of them have some type of chronic illness. Leading the way is obesity, pre-diabetes, and a mental health condition. Look, as a physician, I’m telling the prescription for that is a healthy, nutritious diet that includes whole milk; throw away the processed food. And then activity, some type of activity. This will give the kids something to shoot for. I know that my children, when they still had this going on, when we were children, it gave us a goal to shoot for. It was called competition. That’s what America is bred upon. That’s the secret to our capitalism. Is more competition. So, I couldn’t be happier. I think it’s another step in the right direction. Throw away the social media, the kids on their phones. Throw that away. Get outside, go fishing, go hunting. Let’s all prepare together. Matter of fact, I may introduce some type of a physical fitness challenge for Congress up here.”
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