Senator Marshall: President Trump is Restoring Fairness for America’s Farmers
Senator Marshall Joins CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapperhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe4Fu5nLy6A
Washington – On Monday, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Jake Tapper on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper to discuss President Trump’s $12 billion aid package to American farmers and his plan to make health care affordable again through transparency and patient empowerment.
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On President Trump’s aide package for farmers:
“Well, Jake, we have a lot of work to do. These tariffs have created some short-term pain, but we also think they’re creating long-term gain. And by that, what I’m talking about is long-term trade agreements. When Kansas farmers make money is when we turn corn into beef, when we turn soybeans into pork, when we turn sorghum into ethanol, and sell those value-added products. But this year, this particular year, is really the end result of four years of poor policy under Joe Biden; we saw a record drop in net farm income. We saw our input prices go through the roof, whether it was the cost of fuel or fertilizer, or interest rates. And Joe Biden did zero trade agreements. So, is it enough? No, but these new trade agreements, we’re very, very optimistic about, especially trade agreements where we’re going to be selling more beef and more ethanol.”
On optimism regarding tariffs:
“I think what I hear from small businesses, first of all, is a lot of optimism, optimism around the new tax breaks that they’re going to get on this pro-business tax policy from the one big, beautiful bill. But to your point, there is still supply chain disruption that we’ve had four years of cumulative inflation, and certainly the tariffs have exacerbated that as well. What we’re hoping, though, is that this is going to lead to more manufacturing jobs. The bigger challenges in Kansas, to me, are a lack of people for the jobs we have, that these jobs are moving back to America, and we can’t keep up. We can’t find the people to do those jobs as well, but we certainly are all looking forward to some stabilization when it comes to these tariffs.”
“We’re still looking for that bipartisan support. Number one is that it attacks the fraud in Obamacare, and all we’re asking is for people to have to contribute $5 or $10 a month, and to be honest, we’re not finding any Democrats who are willing to take that on. But beyond that, we want to take some of the enhanced tax credits and put it into custody into patients’ pocketbooks, make them customers again, let them have choices. We pair that with price tags, so we force health care providers to show you price tags and turn patients back into consumers again. So that would be the main thing. Attack the fraud. Stop giving the money, all the money, to insurance companies. Instead, let’s put it in a health care savings account and let patients become consumers again.”
On the ACA subsidy expiration date:
“Well, I sure hope that we can find a package that we do agree upon. Our package actually extends these enhanced credits for one year and then starts this transition phase. Look, I’m sorry that my friends across the aisle chose to keep the government shut down for so long, it really stalled the opportunity to try and fix this. I don’t know that we can fix it in December, but I’m still hopeful, even in January, for a bipartisan bill that would address the fraud, take money away from insurance companies and give it to patients and make them consumers again.”
“Yeah, certainly I’m concerned about the cost of living. I am concerned about people being able to obtain their American dream. And the head of that list is the cost of health care, the cost of education. We talked about how to address the cost of health care, the cost of education. We want to boost our community colleges, our technical colleges, the cost of childcare, and the cost of housing are out there as well, and are big concerns. We’ve been doing what we can. We’ve been fighting this battle for several years. Again, inflation is cumulative, so we’ve seen four years of the cost of health care and housing going up, and I think that you’re going to see the Republicans focused, very focused on how to bring the cost of living down.”
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