“The American people elected President Trump in November, and they put Republicans in charge.”
Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) joined CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins to push back against the baseless attacks against President Trump’s ‘One, Big, Beautiful Bill.’ The senator additionally underscored how the president’s ‘Peace through Strength’ agenda is making Americans safe at home and ending forever wars abroad. Highlights below.
Sen. Mullin’s full interview can be found here.
On Elon Musk, standing with the Trump Administration and the MAGA agenda:
“I love my wife dearly and we still have differences sometimes, so I can have a lot of respect for someone and still have differences and everybody is welcome to their opinion, but the fact is, we’re gonna pass one big beautiful bill, we’re gonna get 51 in the Senate and we’re gonna make sure that it’s not a killer bill that the House can’t pass either and so the House is gonna deliver their votes and we’re gonna put it on the president’s desk for the American people…
“We’re laser focused on delivering President Trump’s agenda. The American people elected President Trump in November, and they put Republicans in charge, and this is one step towards multiple promises that the president made by making the tax provisions permanent, by making sure were cutting deficit spending, and were getting rid of the waste and fraud.”
On the importance of President Trump’s recent travel ban:
“There are some real travel concerns because of some activities going in that place. I don’t think the Boulder incident had anything to do with this moving forward because this conversation has been going on for weeks. The President takes keeping the American people safe, it’s extremely important to him. He talks about it all the time. And so, I know that he takes foreign policy seriously. He’s not one to do anything that he feels he cannot negotiate deals with individuals. This is a well thought out, not a hurried idea. This is something that he felt like was in America’s best interest for national security interest.”
On working with the president on a sanctions package against Russia:
“We’re working with the President of the United States, and he has done a phenomenal job on our foreign affairs and we don’t want to get ahead of the White House, we want to work with the President and we wanna make sure this is a leverage point that he can use for Putin, but Russia knows that we are very serious about moving forward with this…
“President Trump has been very clear, he wants to end all the killing. Period. If Putin is not negotiating in good faith, which I think you saw the President get upset with him just a week ago, if the President gets to the point he doesn’t think Putin is operating in good faith, then we will immediately move forward and it will pass. We know it will pass both chambers and will get to the President’s desk, but we can’t get ahead of the President.”
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