Senator Dave McCormick was on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream to discuss President Trump’s America first agenda, which includes budget cuts and the recission package.
“I want to get back to something else the White House really wants to focus on, which is the success of this cuts package, this recissions package. It cuts foreign aid, it also cuts public broadcasting,” Bream said.
“What about that argument that if we create a void, China is already aggressively going into you know, Africa, Central America, South America. They want to take up the space where we pull back,” Bream said of Senator Schumer’s comments.
“What we saw through the DOGE process and the close look at foreign aid was the American people are spending taxpayer dollars on all sorts of things that they are not in favor of,” McCormick said.
“The cuts in foreign aid that came in recissions was about ten percent of the annual foreign aid budget,” McCormick said.
“What do you say about these potential concerns?” Bream asked regarding cuts to public broadcasting.
“It’s very unfortunate what’s happened at NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It has become a left leaning media outlet,” McCormick said.
“We are in a country where you can have left leaning media, right leaning media. What’s not ok is for the taxpayers to support it,” McCormick continued.
Senator McCormick also explained that cutbacks to Public Broadcasting would not affect the safety of Americans because FEMA is the organization that handles emergency broadcasting. The Senator also said that only a small portion of Public Broadcasting’s budget is funded by the Federal Government.
“FEMA has a responsibility for emergency broadcasting. Only about ten percent of the budget for NPR and Public Broadcasting comes from the Federal Government,” McCormick said.
The Senator explained that recissions are a way to build confidence in the American people because it shows they are being heard.
“We are using recissions in a very targeted way,” McCormick said.
“We are targeting things that the American people just don’t support, so that’s what’s happening. I think we will see more of these packages. I think it’s a way to give people confidence we are actually willing to claw back spending that’s not in line with what the American people want,” McCormick continued.
The Senator also emphasized the importance of winning the AI race, especially against our main adversary China.
“We are in an existential race for energy leadership and AI leadership and the consequences of not winning that race are unthinkable. China is our main adversary,” McCormick said.
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