WASHINGTON – Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) joined The David Webb Show on SiriusXM Patriot to discuss Chuck Schumer's government shutdown, President Trump's historic peace deal in the Middle East, the Congressional Budget, and the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
"We're going to have mutual respect. We're going to have mutual security. That's going to be the baseline for a lasting peace":
"Well, the shift in reality is because of leadership. Let's be very clear. The United States, we really haven't changed except at the top with our president. Israel's been in the same position. And so the difference is Donald Trump. He came in like he said he was going to do to bring peace, but he also made sure that the Middle East understood that it wasn't going to be peace by bending the knee or acquiescing to the radicalism of Hamas or Hezbollah or Iran. It was not going to be peace based on those measures. It was going to be peace based upon mutual respect for everyone. And so the fact that the hostages have all come home now is because Donald Trump has demonstrated that yeah, you have to be tough on the world stage, especially in the Middle East, if you want to be able to develop peace accords that can stand the test of time. So what's happened there is, in my view, just a, a realignment not just in what's happening in the Middle East but in with the thoughts of foreign policy here in the United States because for far too long we've had too many people who were thinking about two-state solutions and not trying to do anything to upset Muslims in the Middle East as opposed to standing firm with Israel, standing firm on Judeo-Christian values. And making sure it's very clear that we want to live in peace with you, but it's not going to be peace on our knees. We're going to have mutual respect. We're going to have mutual security. That's going to be the baseline for a lasting peace."
"They [Democrats] have been wielding either budget fights or these political fights to win elections as opposed to getting things done that are sustainable for the American people":
"Yeah, that's absolutely correct and I think you have to commend the president, his team, Russ Vought at OMB and many others for being willing to think outside the box, something that government does not do. They are doing now [and] that's how our troops are going to be able to be paid. And that's how some of these program which really are affecting people who are at the bottom. The people that the Democrats profess to always want to be fighting for. It's Donald Trump who's working through the different challenges and thinking outside the box to keep some of those programs afloat while also getting rid of the ones that truly have no, no basis of being in the federal government anyway. But that's what happens when you have real leadership who is trying to get things done and accomplished as opposed to giving speeches or using the federal budget and using these various fiscal cliffs as political weapons to try to win the next election. That's what the Democrats have been doing in the country really the last 40 years. They have been wielding either budget fights or these political fights to win elections as opposed to getting things done that are sustainable for the American people. Obamacare and these Affordable Care Act subsidies is
totally indicative of that."
