Tulsa Standard

Republican Policy Committee Chairman Kevin Hern appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box to discuss President Trump's recent address to Congress, focusing on tax cuts and fiscal responsibility. Hern shared insights from his meetings with the president before and after the speech.

"First of all, I met with the president before he did the speech, and he was very confident going in that he was going to be able to deliver a message that all Americans wanted to hear. Then I talked to him personally after he left, and he was feeling really good about what the response was and what we saw," Hern stated.

Hern criticized Democrats for their stance on border issues during the address. "The Democrats [were] not standing for anything to do with the border. Yet afterwards, in their response, they said, we need to come together on the border. Well, they sure didn’t demonstrate that when they were sitting in the room with all of us when we talked about, you know, the atrocities that’s happened by illegal aliens that have come in and killed our people and then not even stand up and applaud for the victims that are up there."

He emphasized the importance of maintaining a Republican majority to implement policies aimed at improving America. "If we’re not in the majority, we can’t pass these great policies and get America back where it needs to be…to make America great again…Had President Trump not won the presidency, none of this would be even be talked about. We would still be under Joe Biden’s policy of appeasement around the world, wide open border that the Democrats say they want...and we would see wars everywhere that’s costing literally trillions of dollars of taxpayer dollars."

Hern highlighted economic achievements under Trump's administration: "President Trump’s been in office 43 days, and he’s already got $1.7 trillion of committed asset development in the United States."

On tax policy, Hern expressed support for making current measures permanent: "The tax policy works. We need to codify it, make it permanent and get us back on the road to financial security that we need, that every American deserves, regardless of party."

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