U.S. Sen. John Thune is weighing in on President Joe Biden’s recent public performances.
The ranking Republican said the Democratic president exceeded expectations at a recent press conference, only because expectations were low.
During a stop in Box Elder, Thune said the American public must answer the fundamental question about a national crisis.
“If there’s an emergency on the global stage, is he the guy you want in the situation room as your commander in chief?" Thune said. "I think that’s the question that his party is grappling with right now. The reason they’re grappling with it is because the American voters are grappling with it.”
Thune calls the Democratic party a party of open borders and increased prices.
Thune endorsed Donald Trump for president in February after Trump became the presumptive nominee.
Trump has outlined his second term agenda, which includes mass deportations of millions of migrants in the country illegally, as well as tariffs on goods imported into the US.
Some of those items are mentioned in a 900-page plan put together by the prominent conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation called Project 2025. The blueprint would expand presidential powers and overhaul the federal workforce.
Trump has denied any connections to the plan. Thune said he hasn’t looked at the particulars of Project 2025 but said he’s familiar with it based on reporting in the media.
“All I can say is I don’t think anything’s been decided,” Thune said. “I know that I’m working with my colleagues in the House of Representatives, my colleagues in the Senate on things that we want to do if we get the majority in the Senate and keep the majority in the House and if we have a Republican president to work with. But that’s our agenda that we've been discussion.”
Thune said that agenda includes tax and regulatory changes that he said will create growth in the economy, while restraining growth in government spending, which he said contributing to inflation.
