Senator Marshall: Our Bill Gets American Families into Their First Home

Senator Marshall Joins Newsmax Wake Up America

Washington - U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Sharla McBride and Marc Lotter on Newsmax's Wake Up America to discuss the ongoing peace talks with Iran, President Trump's upcoming negotiations with the Senate, and how the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act cuts regulations and will allow young Americans to be homeowners again.

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On the peace talks with Iran:

"Well, I think this is a great win for America. I think we just stay focused on the goals here: no more nukes, no more forever wars, keep the Strait open, and affordable gas and groceries for Americans. And this MOU is a step in the right direction; I think they're making incredible progress, and this is going to lead to prosperity, safety, and security for Americans for generations to come. I think JD Vance is doing a masterful job right now. I think it was just so important that they included the Lebanon issue in this agreement. So, as I talked to JD and as I talked to Jared and Steve Witkoff, it sounds like they're going down three roads right now. The first road is dealing with the nukes, and we can dive down that one, dealing with Lebanon is the second one, and the third is everything else. It's what do we do with sanctions, what do we do with their missiles - all those types of things - with an emphasis on regional control. It's time for the Gulf nations to step up as well. We have defanged Iran, and now it's time for those Gulf nations to step up and keep their neighbor in check."

On President Trump's upcoming visit to the Senate to discuss priorities:

"Well, look, we are the most deliberative body in the world for a reason - that we have 53 Republican senators and 53 opinions: we are not lemmings. But if I could pass one bill the rest of my career, it would be the Save Act - that's how important election integrity is. So, I don't blame President Trump for not giving up yet. I bet 90% of Americans think that showing an ID when you vote, proof of citizenship when you register is a very reasonable thing to protect this republic. So, maybe Trump can pull a rabbit out of the hat - I don't know - but just to put an exclamation point on this, we have at least 50 Republicans who would vote for some version of that Save America Act. But, it would take 60 votes - and the only way to overcome that is to break the filibuster and we don't have the votes. We don't have 50 Republicans willing to break the filibuster for fear of what the future looks like."

"Well, I think this is once again President Trump negotiating - this is all this is about. He's using that position as leverage to get his Save Act or get a few other things he wants to. Everyone should go read his book The Art of the Deal, if they haven't yet. I made my entire staff read it as a freshman member of Congress, and I refer back to it all the time - it shows who Trump was in his raw state. And I think he's just negotiating - and I just got to tell you, he keeps throwing things on the wall, and some of them stick, but we have never moved so fast and I'm just excited about that. I mean, gasoline dropped from four and a half dollars a gallon to three and a half dollars a gallon last week alone. Our economy is just sitting there, ready to just break wide open back in Kansas - manufacturing is just bursting at the seams, our cattle industry is great. So the banquet has been set, and now it's time to eat. So, I can't wait to see the rest of this year, how it unfolds."

On passing the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act:

"Yeah, so under Joe Biden, housing went up over 50%. If you're a young family under the age of 40 and you don't have a house yet, it's just impossible to get in one. So, this is going to make that first-time house especially more affordable. Number one, as we roll back the federal regulations - the number one cost driver, and I've talked to many, many of my builders back home, is the regulatory environment. Not just in Washington, not just the environmental reviews, but other communities have all their regulatory things as well. So, we try to encourage local communities to make their regulations more efficient, we decrease the federal regulations as well, we put somewhat of a ban on big-time Wall Street investors on housing as well. But I really think the trick is the regulatory environment - we make it easier for community banks to make those loans, those community banks know their homes so much better than people in Washington do. So, we hope that this helps get American families into that first home, part of the American dream."

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