Washington, D.C. – This morning, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), joined Fox News’ “Fox News Sunday” with guest-anchor Gillian Turner. The Senator discussed the ongoing Chuck Schumer Shutdown as well as Secretary Hegseth’s address to military leaders earlier this week.
Senator Mullin also continues to keep the American people updated through his social media videos that can be found on X, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.
The full interview can be found here.
On Chuck Schumer’s previous comments:
“Well, this is what happens when you have a career politician in office. Keep in mind that in 1996 when he was a Congressman and I was still in high school, which was three decades ago, the career politician Chucky Schumer, went to the floor and said that we incentivize illegals coming to the United States illegally when we give them benefits. That’s exactly what they’re doing right now.
On Chuck Schumer’s shutdown of the government over free health care for illegal aliens:
“It’s the illegals that he’s trying to reinstate health care for, which is what the one big, beautiful Bill cut out. Keep in mind, he’s wanting to add $1.5 trillion back into taxpayer spending for four weeks of the government to be open. And what that does is it reinstates the illegals, the 20 million illegals that the Biden administration allowed to come in illegally. And when he left office, what Biden did was a sleight of hand by basically paroling 98% of the individuals, which made them eligible for Medicaid benefits. And so what, One Big, Beautiful Bill did is cut out the waste, fraud and abuse, and that’s what Schumer is trying to reinstall. Why? Because he’s got to show his base that he’s fighting. But yet he doesn’t believe it, because he’s voted for a clean CR 13 times, and this exact CR… four other times, but now he won’t do it because he’s afraid AOC will primary him, not in 2026 but in 2028.”
On President Trump doing what’s necessary for the American people:
“And so when you’re trying to shrink the size of government, which is what President Trump ran on, because he wants to get our budget under control and get people out of the federal government that’s wasting taxpayer dollars, Chuck Schumer has allowed him to do the exact same thing. And yet the craziness that you find in the Democrat Party, can’t even admit that. They’re literally lying to the American people when they say they’re fighting for them, but yet they gave all the power to the executive branch to make the unilateral decisions they need to which, by the way, they should be. Underneath the Biden administration, most agencies grew by over 100% so to cut 10% of the employees out is not an issue at all. We have plenty of room to be able to still be effective and efficient with all of our agencies, but without having a bloated federal employee government.”
On Democrat hypocrisy:
“It’s interesting how short a memory Dick Durbin and the Democrats have because it wasn’t just but four years ago that the Keystone Pipeline was cut too. And by the way, it went right through red states, the entire distance of it went through red streets. All the energy products for pipelines and for oil and gas infrastructure was also cut underneath the Biden administration. But they want to forget about that and not talk about what the Biden administration did. They just want to talk about what Trump is doing because of their hatred towards President Trump.”
“But what we know what’s happening in the administration is the Trump administration is working for the entire economy, trying to bring the entire economy up, making sure that we’re not picking winners and losers, but the free market makes those decisions and so I support what the President Trump is doing, but to Dick Durbin I’d say maybe you should look back three or four years ago and see what the Biden administration was doing before you go out and call someone out on this stuff.”
On Secretary Hegseth’s recent address to military leadership:
“Well, I have a lot of friends that get the opportunity to serve this great country, and all of them said their chest was pumping with pride. They love the idea that Pete Hegseth stood up there, as they said, and became a leader to all the war fighters that he had promised… by holding the generals accountable, by saying look, if I’m making you uncomfortable by talking about the war fighters and lethality, making sure that our standards are the same for everyone, regardless of their gender, man or woman, if they’re going to have a certain job, a certain MOS that they all have to meet the same standards.”
“If they’re talking about holding the generals accountable and saying, ‘Look, if you want your soldiers to be fit, and you need to set the example by being fit yourself.’ I’ll tell you all the service members loved it. They loved the idea that you have a Secretary of War that was sitting up there putting them first, rather than putting the guys with stars on their shoulders. I tell you what. I sent Secretary Hegseth a message too, and after I heard the speech, I said, ‘Sir, my chest is pumping with pride. Thank you for standing up and taking a strong, clear and decisive position on where the Secretary of War should be, and the Department of War is going.”
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