Thune Joins Larry Kudlow on Fox Business, The Guy Benson Radio Show

Majority Leader | Press Release | Press Releases | THE NE...Skip to primary navigation Skip to content×Close THE NEWSROOMRemarks Press Releases The Leader Board Op-Eds Videos SENATE RESOURCESRepublican Senators Committees Congressional Record Congress.gov Senate Floor Webcast ABOUT LEADER THUNE×Close THE NEWSROOMRemarks Press Releases The Leader Board Op-Eds Videos SENATE RESOURCESRepublican Senators Committees Congressional Record Congress.gov Senate Floor Webcast ABOUT LEADER THUNExxsearchxMENUFacebookXInstagramFacebookXInstagramVisit Leader Thune's South Dakota Site Here THE NEWSROOMRemarks Press Releases The Leader Board Op-Eds Videos SENATE RESOURCESRepublican Senators Committees Congressional Record Congress.gov Senate Floor Webcast ABOUT LEADER THUNExxsearchxMENUHomeTHE NEWSROOMPress Releases02.25.26Thune Joins Larry Kudlow on Fox Business, The Guy Benson Radio Show“You saw the president’s vision for the future of this country, and then you saw the open borders, sanctuary cities … defund law enforcement, raise your taxes, reduce American energy independence Democrats sitting there on their hands at virtually every opportunity when they should have been up cheering … it’s unfortunate.” Click here to watch Fox Business and here to listen to The Guy Benson Show.WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business and the Guy Benson radio show.On President Trump’s State of the Union address:“[President Trump] crushed it … both in tone and substance … And I thought it was optimistic, it was hopeful … reflecting on America’s greatness and those who have come before us. Having a couple of those 100-year-old veterans in the audience … having the American … hockey team … congratulations to both the men and the women for their gold medals.“But it was really the kind of message and speech that I think most people should find inspiring and aspirational and all that – except the Democrats in the chamber. So I thought what you also saw last night was kind of the two Americas. You saw the president’s vision for the future of this country, and then you saw the open borders, sanctuary cities … defund law enforcement, raise your taxes, reduce American energy independence Democrats sitting there on their hands at virtually every opportunity when they should have been up cheering … it’s unfortunate.”[…]“The president laid out a bold vision. And some of the things he talked about last night – on top of the things … that we got done in this last year through the first reconciliation bill – but … a housing bill, talking about something on additional energy development, permitting reform, AI. I think there’s some real areas that we can be working on and working with the White House, and hopefully in a bipartisan way … to get some solutions for the American people. But those are all things that kind of strike at the heart of this question of affordability. I think the president has zeroed in on that.“What we believe are the answers as we look to the future … are safer streets, which the president has been dialed in and zeroed in on since he came to office and before; obviously more money in the American people’s pockets, and we have done that, and you’re going to see more of that … as the year wears on; and then obviously new opportunities to get ahead for working families, and there are so many areas in which the president has delivered on that. “There’s more to do, but you look at just as an example, the Trump newborn accounts … [T]hat is a wonderful idea for the future and to get people saving for their kids. And I think that’s something that is going to serve the American people and working families well, well into the future.”On the SAVE America Act:“[W]e will vote on the SAVE America Act in one way, form, or another. And if the Democrats block it, I think it’s a great contrast to draw going into these fall elections. Do you want to be the people who are voting against actually requiring people to be American citizens to vote in American elections? I think that’s a fairly straightforward issue, but if the Democrats want to … stand in the way of that, then we’re obviously happy to litigate that in the fall elections.”On the Democrats’ DHS shutdown:“The president and his team have been … operating in good faith in terms of trying to get a solution here … We have now had [three] votes in the Senate … on the very bill the Democrats negotiated on the Department of Homeland Security, on that appropriations bill, and then subsequently walked away from and voted against it as recently as last night. And we’ll give them more opportunities to vote on that.“[Republicans are] not going to do anything that jeopardizes or puts at risk law enforcement officials who are out doing their jobs. They have a right to be able to do their jobs, to do them in a safe way. And these sanctuary cities, which create these hostile environments where, puts not only … these law enforcement officials at risk, but also their families, that’s just crazy … There are a whole range of issues I think the White House has been willing to deal on, and the Democrats haven’t been there, because I think they see this as a political issue, and it’s really unfortunate, because nobody wins in a shutdown.”PrintEmailTweetPreviousTHE NEWSROOMSENATE RESOURCESABOUT LEADER THUNEFacebookXInstagram