Washington, D.C. – Last week, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) spoke with the Edmond Chamber of Commerce on a range of topics including the importance of business owners being involved in their communities and President Trump standing up to the rest of the world in defense of the American worker. Highlights of the Senator’s remarks to the Chamber are below.

On the importance of business owners being involved in the community:

“It’s important because nothing affects your business more than state and federal government. Nothing. Dealing with mandates and regulations absolutely destroys your company. And no one is going to know it’s actually hurting you if you’re not in a position to tell the story. No one is going to know to fight for you, for that particular issue, unless you’re in that position to actually be able to say what is going on.”

On President Trump standing up for the American worker: 

“When the President was campaigning, he made this a focal point. We knew what was going to happen. The President was very very clear. He’s not as concerned about today’s workforce as he is about tomorrow’s. He says this is a generational issue that at some point if we don’t resolve it, it’s going to destroy our economy. And the trillions of dollars that have been sucked out of the United States and has built these other countries, they’re going to become the wealthy countries and we’re going to have to be taking money from them to help us out of our recession that’s going to last permanently until we learn to remanufacture, and at that point they won’t need us, and so they won’t be wanting to do trade deals with us. And so, the President was looking way down the road, like most business owners.”

“Someone at some point had to take the bullet. At some point this was coming to a head. And thank goodness President Trump was willing to do it.

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