President’s Address Will Offer a New Direction for the Country

Today on the Senate floor, I previewed President Trump’s Address to a Joint Session of Congress tonight. Excerpts of my remarks are below, and video of my remarks can be found here.

I know the cornerstone of that vision for America is reviving our economy and boosting job growth. Fortunately, he's already taking a few steps through executive action in that direction for which I'm grateful. He's also nominated top-notch financial and economic advisors to look at our archaic tax code, to review our trade agreements, and to get our country back on track. He's begun to trim the fat in the bureaucracy and continues to push for measures to keep the government from interfering unnecessarily with the lives of American families.

I'm glad the President's delivering on his promise to protect American jobs and grow our economy, and he's willing to work with Congress to do just that. Of course, another area where Congress and the Administration are working together is to repeal and replace Obamacare. Obamacare is perhaps President Obama's signature legacy. His health care law, by all accounts, is completely unsustainable and is essentially creating a real crisis for the people who happen to be on those exchanges.

I look forward to working with our colleagues here to deliver on the promise we made to the American people to repeal Obamacare and put in its place a health care law that actually works for people, not against them.

We do know some of the basic principles of that replacement for Obamacare. Moving health care decisions, for example, away from Washington to where they belong: with patients, their families and their doctors.

We also believe in giving patients the right tools they can use, like health savings accounts, to make their health care more portable and more affordable, breaking down barriers that restrict choice and prevent Americans from picking the insurance plan that's best for them and their family.

We have to have a stable and safe country though, where our people can flourish, and that brings me to President Trump's latest promise to restore national security as the No. 1 priority in our budgeting process.

But safety of our communities and safety of our country and world peace is our chief job.

When America retreats from the world stage, when America no longer leads, or when we underfund our national security requirements, all it does is encourages the bullies, the tyrants, and the thugs around the world to fill the gap.

I think President Trump has demonstrated that he understands what the priorities should be, and I know he will keep the goal of national security at the forefront, and we ought to do everything we can working together with this Administration to make that a success.

I think there's a lot of anticipation, a growing confidence, not only in our economy, but that America is now back in a leadership role and that the whole world will end up benefiting.

I'm eager to learn about how Congress can continue to partner with our new President to make his Administration a success so that America can remain a success and to make the rest of his campaign promises a reality.

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