Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), joined Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino. The Senator discussed his personal experience with SNAP along with the Democrats continuing to play games with the American people through Chuck Schumer’s shutdown.
Senator Mullin has also been sharing regular updates, direct to the American people, on his various social media platforms: X, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.
The full interview can be found here.
On Senator Mullin’s personal experience with SNAP:
“We have a lot of tribes, obviously, in our state and so we have a lot of reservations. I’m Cherokee myself. When I was younger, and we had seven of us kids at home, we were on what they call commodities, which is a form of SNAP program, and it’s a helping hand for a lot of these people in rural areas and reservations that may not have the same economic opportunities as some metropolitan areas… and it’s ridiculous that as Katherine Clark, the number two ranking Democrat in the House, said that they understand families are suffering, but, ‘it’s their only leverage point.’ They’re using the American people for leverage because of political gain.”
On the Democrats’ blame game:
“The only thing we’re asking them to do is reopen the government on a clean CR that Chuck Schumer wrote when he was leader of the Senate, back in September. We’re not asking them to vote on anything they haven’t voted for before, either… What’s changed is the political environment. Their base demanded that they shut down the government, and they shut it down, and now they’re looking to play the blame game and try to pin it on Republicans, or try to pin it on the President, when even CNN’s own poll shows that they’re losing at that argument, because the American people aren’t fools, but they play them like they are.”
On Biden’s disastrous economy and President Trump restoring stability:
“You had take home pay drop. You had wages drop. You saw prices soar because of inflation, and we’re just now getting those numbers back to where they need to be because President Trump has brought the economy back. You’ll see those individuals transition off as jobs come back, as manufacturing jobs come back, with middle class, livable wages. You’ll see those programs be less dependable or less desirable for those that have more income coming into their house.”
On the Democrats’ ridiculous hostage negotiations:
“We had lost movement about nine days ago with the Democrats. Their demands are still the same: $1.5 trillion to reopen the government, to bring back the fraud, waste and abuse, that ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ cut out and give illegal immigrants health care again, that’s not a talking point, that’s literally what they’re wanting to do.”
On the Democrats refusing to reopen the government:
“The Senate won’t even pay essential employees right now– well, the Republicans will, but the Democrats won’t even vote to pay essential employees, much less allow those benefits to move. And we wouldn’t have to do this, honestly, if they would just simply vote to reopen the government on a clean CR that they wrote. I mean, it’s that simple, we can get this whole problem solved today in five minutes, if they would vote for a clean CR.”
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