Senator Marshall: We Will Cut $9 Billion of Wasteful Spending for the American Taxpayers
Senator Marshall Joins Newsmax to Talk About the Rescissions Package and Joe Biden’s Autopen
Washington – On Monday, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Newsmax’s Wake Up America to discuss the White House’s rescissions package to cut funding to leftist causes and organizations like NPR and PBS, and the continuing questions around the usage of the autopen in the Biden-Harris Administration.
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On the likelihood of getting the Recissions Package passed this week:
“I think we’ll get it across the finish line. And I think it’s important to remember why this is so important: our nation is $37 trillion in debt. We’re spending a trillion dollars a year in interest. We’re asking the Republicans to do what we said we were going to do. We said we were going to cut spending. Now, the One Big, Beautiful Bill, a record amount of spending cuts. But here’s a small chance to take a… $9 billion bite out of the apple.
“Look, folks back in Kansas are tired of the federal government spending a billion dollars on public broadcasting. In today’s world, I don’t see that the benefits outweigh the detriments here. I think there are better things to do with that money. I think that we should proceed forward.
“A second point, why this is important is it only takes 50 Republicans to do this. Usually in the Senate, it takes 60 votes. We got the Big, Beautiful Bill done with 50-plus votes, and we’ll do the same thing with this. I think we’ll get it across the finish line.”
On what it means if Congress fails to pass the recissions package:
“Well, I think that that means that the swamp is still really deep up here, and that Republicans aren’t willing to step forward and do the right thing. Look, DOGE has found like $2 trillion of waste, fraud, and abuse over the last 20-some years. $190 billion of cuts that they would like to make through wasted contracts and NGO grants, those types of things. This is a small bite of the apple.
“USAID – this is the number one thing on my list I gave to Elon and the team. I saw just the horrible fraudulent abuse out there, that USAID had become a slush fund for Democrats, where they hired their buddies and their relatives and did all their DEI malarkey, I’ll say.
“So, this is a chance for Republicans to stand up and do what we said we were going to do. Surely, 50 of us can do the right thing. Let’s put America first. Let’s take that $9 billion and pay down our debt.”
On the President’s comments about interfering with the Recissions Package:
“Well, that may help Susan Collins, but the rest of us do not want to be on President Trump’s naughty list, right? So, Mr. Putin is on the President’s naughty list right now, and it’s not a good list to be on. Trust me, I’ve seen people get their knees cut off by being on the President’s naughty list. But regardless, the President is America first. The Senate Republicans should be America first. We should get this rescissions package across the finish line while we have the chance.”
On the usage of the autopen during the Biden years and the questions about his health:
“Well, look, Joe Biden doesn’t know what day it is. I’d love to see him do a live interview. Let’s invite him on to Newsmax today. Come on in, Joe Biden, let’s have a live interview, and let’s discuss this.
“Where are the notes that would prove that he participated in those conversations? Look, when I have conversations like that with my staff, there are copious notes supporting what you want, what they presented to me, and that I was involved in the conversation. So, show proof. So, you know, don’t tell me, show me. So, let’s see the reports there.
“Look, this President, Joe Biden, was in cognitive decline, neurogenerative decline for years. And like I said, I’m not sure he knows what day it is…”
On doctor-patient confidentiality in regards to National Security:
“…I think the law is in our favor already. Look, I’m ethically bound to protect the patient’s privacy, but then being subpoenaed trumps that. If I’m called to be a witness, then that trumps my ethical obligation. I don’t have to disclose all the non-important things about that person’s medical history.
“But if it’s something that impacts the case at hand, in this case, the President putting our nation at risk in so many ways, economically as well as in national security. So, I think we’re good with the laws that we have right now, we just need to enforce them. And I think if this goes to the Supreme Court, they’ll prove us right here.”
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