Senator Markwayne Mullin
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
taking directive orders from a Democrat party that's wanting to investigate students for showing up to school board meetings or classifying Catholics, and I'm not joking when I say this, as a possible terrorist because they disagreed with the Democrat agenda, especially at this time when it came to abortions. That was what that was all about. It's concerning that they had weaponized, the
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
for political gain and political purposes. What Cash is going to do is put them back on mission focus. That means he's going to reform the seventh floor of the Hoover Building and take the politics out of it and put American people back in focus.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
I think you've got a little bit of both. I think the American people spoke very loud on November 5th when he won the popular vote and obviously electoral vote. I think the Democrat Party is trying to reorganize and find themselves and they can't. They keep reverting back to 2017 rhetoric. And I hope they stay there because they stay there. We're going to continue to win elections.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
But at the same time, what you've seen is a new leader in the Senate with the leader Thune. He is just 100% grinding the Democrats down. From the get go, he said we can do this the hard way or we can do this the easy way, it's up to you.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
And so once the president got confirmed and sworn into office on the 20th, what we did is we immediately started the clock on these nominees and these nominees haven't stopped. And what I mean by the clock Just explain to your listeners, after they get out of committee, which we already had people preset.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
So first of all, Leader Thune directed the chairs of the committees to get started on the hearings early, even before Trump was sworn into office, which that normally doesn't take place. So he preset it. We came in on January 3rd.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
president wasn't going to get sworn until january 20th but we already started hearing so we could get them reported out of committee onto the floor for the hearing so starting on january 20th he started the clock on these nominees once they get reported out of committee it's called a 24-hour soak and then if they're a cabinet position meaning that a secretary is a 30-hour debate.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
So that's when we say we're invoking cloture. It's a 30-hour debate. So it's 54 hours on secretary levels. On directors like Kash Patel, when you invoke cloture on them, you have a two-hour debate. So while you still have a 24-hour soak, you only have two hours of debate on that person so you can move those faster. And he has literally kept that clock running 24-7, seven days a week.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
Even when we're not here, the Democrats will negotiate and said, if you don't make us stay over on the weekend, we'll allow the clocks to run consecutively, even though we're not here. So we'll go ahead and invoke cloture on the next person. So when we get back here on Monday, we can confirm two people at once.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
That's why we're so far ahead is because Leader Thune has not let up the pressure at all, not one bit on the Democrats.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
Well, you have to go back to the coalition that President Trump has built. So President Trump has brought a unique coalition together, right? Let's just look at Tulsi. That conversation started over two years ago between President Trump and I when he asked, how do I get libertarian and independents to vote for us? We don't have to win their vote, but we need to increase the percentages.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
I said, let's bring Tulsi in. Immediately, that relationship started. Tulsi's relationship with Bobby is what brought Bobby onto the campaign. And the president, I mean, quickly embraced him. When he asked for me to be a surrogate to Indian country for him, even though a Republican hadn't won Indian country since Nixon, President Trump wanted to put a special interest towards them.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
And so he ended up winning 63% of the Native American vote. When he asked, do you think we can win it? I said, sir, you win all 77 counties in Oklahoma. There's no greater population of Native American tribes in one area other than Oklahoma. And I said, so if you can win it in Oklahoma, you can win it nationally.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
When you start looking at the unions, he asked right after Sean O'Brien, who him and I had obviously public, very public disagreements. He asked us just a couple months later, hey, I need you guys to work together. And his phone call to me was, is, hey. listen, we need the union votes. I want you to make friends with Sean. I believe you guys will get along. I talked to him.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
You guys actually have a lot in common. He asked Sean to do the same thing. We got in a room together and we've been friends ever since that day. And so the coalition that the president has brought together is unique. At the same time,
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
We have to understand that we can't always use this conservative purity test when the president has got a mandate from the American people that he's working for everybody. And that means this new coalition, we have to stay true to our values, but understand we're accepting individuals that we may not 100% agree to, but we got to show them some love. And Lori represents that.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
We have our differences. Obviously, we're a right to work state. I'm a very proud right to work state. That's what started the whole confrontation honestly, between Sean and I. But at the same time, the unions have a place in this country, and I recognize that.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
There's not a successful business that doesn't have successful employees, and there's not an employee that has a good job that doesn't have a business to work for, so they take both of us. Lurie was a great compromise. It was one of those areas that, yeah, we're gonna give the unions a nod. We want 59% of the union vote, which he's the first Republican president to do that in decades.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
We're going to give you a little nod, agree that we disagree on some issues, but we're going to find common ground to work for because they're looking for a party right now. The Democrat woke agenda doesn't fit the workforce that we have in America right now. And so Sean and I spoke. Sean actually brought Lori to me. And said, what do you think about Lori?
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
I think this is someone that the unions can support. And I said, I think that's a great idea. Let's talk to the president about it. So we both visited with the president at different times about it. The president loved the idea, and that's how it happened. And so I get some of my conservative friends out there had reservation about it.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
But if we want to continue to win elections for the Republican Party and not go down this path, socialist woke agenda that the Biden administration was trying to move us towards, then we got to understand we're going to have to allow some people in our party that we can welcome in and start working on things we have in common, not just focus on the differences.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
Well, deregulation is my biggest focus. And the deregulation on the business sector, you got to start with certain focuses. My certain focus is in energy. And by the way, President Trump is all on board on this too, not just because it's my agenda, because he sees it the same way, because we both come from a business perspective.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
I tell everybody, you make decisions in this world based on two things, the way you raise your life experience. My life experience is business. And you understand when you're in business that everything that you factor as a cost starts and begins with energy.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
You can't build a product and you can't deliver a product without factoring in the energy cost because it takes energy to build it and takes energy to deliver it. So it's always a baseline add on when you're talking about costs. So if you're going to bring down inflation, you've got to bring down energy.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
The only way we bring down energy prices is you've got to make it conducive that people can trust their investment.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
long-term investment and not just four years at a time but most energy companies are investing 15 20 years at a time when they look at returns so you got to have stability in the energy market and that means you got to have deregulation that's not just an executive order but it's legislation and made into law so it can't be overturned like day one joe biden did to the trump administration in 17 coming out in 20.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
And so stability in the regulatory market is my number one goal.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
I can't speak for everybody in the Senate, especially my colleagues, but I'll take it back to what I said earlier. We all make decisions based on race and our life experiences.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
So when you look from a business perspective, not a political perspective, you understand that every successful business out there, large or small, has hired a consultant at some point to come in and overlook their business operations. Not that they don't know what they're doing, it's just that a consultant comes in from an unbiased perspective and just simply looks at numbers.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
And as a business owner, sometimes you can have pet projects that you just continue to dump money into that doesn't make any sense. And there's no way for it to be successful, but you're so invested in it, you just can't find a way out. And when a consultant looks at it and goes, hey, this makes no sense, it opens your eyes up. Well, take politics, for example.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
You know, I wouldn't describe him as a disruptor. I would say he's someone that chases the facts and exposed the wrongs or the hypocrisy or the cover-ups that FBI was doing. He did this way before he was even being considered to be the director of FBI. He was a whistleblower before people were even looking into it. You take somebody like him who understands the intel system.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
You've got someone that's been in there for 40 years. They got a project in their state that it doesn't make any sense to continue to do it because it's outdated, but they're personally connected to it and they're not going to let it pass. Well, you take Elon Musk, who's the most successful entrepreneur we've had in our lifetime, and he's working for the federal government as a free consultant.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
Consultants are typically expensive. He's doing it for free and giving his resources for free, and he's looking at these programs from an unbiased perspective, just the numbers. Does it work for the taxpayers? Does it make sense? How much waste, fraud, and abuse is in the taxpayer dollar right now? And he's exposing it at record rates. I don't even know if you can say record rates, alarming rates.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
And the reason why I say alarming is because you go, why haven't we seen this? I mean, just take Social Security only, and you see the amount of people that's over 150 that's still on Social Security. I'm going, I don't remember seeing that report. We celebrate people when they turn 100. And you typically see those in the paper. 150, I think that'd be pretty much news.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
I haven't seen any of these individuals, but they're still on the books for Social Security. Just simply cleaning up things like that makes a huge difference. But that's what a consultant can do. And that's the role that Doge is playing with Elon Musk. And I look at it from that perspective. Like I said, I can't talk to my other colleagues and see how they look at it.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
But that's what I've been on all these media outlets saying the same thing that I am to you and argue with that perspective. You can't because it does make sense. That's why private companies do it.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
His numbers in Oklahoma, he has 84 percent. highly favorable numbers in Oklahoma. Literally, the numbers just came out the other day. And I'm like, that is, it's just, it blows my mind that his numbers are that good. And I'm just speaking for Oklahoma. His numbers obviously are good across the country because you see them.
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Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
system understands the mission of the fbi and has been concerned about them concerned enough back years ago that he was willing to expose it why would you want somebody like that because he's he's not there to destroy the fbi he's there to get them back on mission focus he's there to support the field agents and put them back on mission focus of protecting the american people not