“If we don’t get the budget passed, we can’t get to reconciliation, and reconciliation is where all the cuts come in.”

Washington, D.C. –On Tuesday, U.S. Senators Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Katie Britt (R-AL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Tim Scott (R-SC), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Tom Cotton (R-AR), John Kennedy (R-LA), and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) joined Fox News’ Sean Hannity on a special edition of Hannity to unpack President Trump’s first 100 days in office and urge the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the Trump-endorsed Senate budget resolution. Highlights below.

Sen. Mullin and his Senate GOP colleagues’ interview can be found here.

On the president’s use of tariffs to halt unfair trade practices:

“Which goes to the fact that President Trump has the backbone at this point to say, hey, it’s time to right the ship. There has been no president that’s been willing to address this, and we’ve known this has been an issue, Sean, for decades, and it’s only got worse.What President Trump did is he’s finally stepped up and said something that he started talking about back in 1988 on Oprah’s show, saying that they’re taking advantage of us. We have to stop the bleeding. If we didn’t do it, then what generation was going to happen?”

On the Democrats’ lies about social security and taxes in the reconciliation process:

“The American people are starting to believe it [Democrats’ lies], because they say it so much. You cannot cut Social Security in reconciliation. At the same time, they’re saying we’re going to cut taxes for billionaires and millionaires and President Trump’s friends, when all we’re doing is extending the current tax code, the current tax policy that we have right now, we’re simply extending it. And so the Democrats, they can’t run on any of their policies, but they’re running on lies.”

On the need for House Republicans to vote for the Trump-endorsed Senate budget resolution:

“With the House right now, I think there’s a misunderstanding what the budget actually does. The budget does nothing to instruct them. It’s just the vehicle for us to move to reconciliation. If we don’t get the budget passed, we can’t get to reconciliation, and reconciliation is where all the cuts come in. That’s where we take DOGE into consideration. That’s when we start trying to balance the budget. That’s where we can start making the tax cuts permanent.”

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