ICYMI: Sen. Banks Joins Rob Schmitt Tonight on Newsmax

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) joined Rob Schmitt Tonight on Newsmax to discuss Iran's failed attack on U.S. military forces, the impending American response, Middle East diplomacy, the debate over birthright citizenship, and his introduction of the Citizenship Act of 2026.

Click the image above for the full discussion.

Key Excerpts on Iran strikes:

Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.): "You gotta give credit to President Trump for being so transparent. He's going to make sure that there is hell to pay for what they've done. And the Iranians know that. They know that each and every time President Trump draws a red line, he keeps it, unlike Biden and Obama and presidents in the past who have told this regime they will be tough on them and then never follow through."

"The next thing that needs to happen is we need to pass this defense supplemental bill, and the reconciliation bill that has more funding for our military because we have to replenish our munition stockpiles and we have to make sure our military has everything, every resource they need, every weapon they need, every missile they need to keep up the pressure on Iran and swiftly end this war."

Key Excerpts on peace in the Middle East:

"We have the most powerful military in the World, and we have all of the weapons and missiles, everything that we need to make sure that Iran pays the price for what they have done, but we need our military to be even tougher and stronger and supplied with all the technologies of the future, and that's really what peace through strength is all about. President Trump is the peace-through-strength President, just as Regan was."

"By the way, the President negotiating this deal with Saudi Arabia that leads to peace between Saudi Arabia and Isreal is a big step added on to what he did in the first term with the Abraham Accords. President Trump has done more to bring stability and peace to the Middle East. The last piece to that, the last piece of this puzzle to make the world a safer place, is to make sure Iran never has a nuclear weapon. That's President Trump's biggest goal.

Key Excerpts on the Citizenship Act of 2026:

"It's very simple. The Supreme Court struck down President Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship, but what all nine Justices on the Supreme Court agree about is that babies of invaders are not eligible for birthright citizenship. So, my bill with Congressman Brandon Gill would declare that the illegals who have come over the southern border are invaders. We have declared in the past pirates as invaders, Nazi spies as invaders, and that all pales in comparison to the tens of millions of illegals that Joe Biden and the Democrats let into our country…We can pass this with a majority in the House and the Senate and stop birthright citizenship. I think it's fundamental to the survival of our country."

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