Rep. Mike Haridopolos:
Well, I would say this. When we were in a lot of crisis in the Great Depression, FDR changed the dynamic. And he said, we have this agenda. The American public has changed dramatically.
The Republican Party is known as the blue-collar party now for the first time in my lifetime, and we really focused the new tax cuts on the middle class. I felt like the president had a mandate. It’s a new Republican Party. He was really focused on the middle class, who were hurt by higher grocery prices and gas prices.
And I really felt like it was — we’re going to do the kind of the old 100 days of FDR. We took six months. Welcome to modern America. But it’s been an agenda that we believe in, and we think we are going to really show the results when we have low unemployment rates, we have low inflation rates.
And we’re also telling countries around the world, you treat us as an equal. The reason why the tariffs, I think, are having some positive effect with the revenues coming in, because prices aren’t going up, because America is a number one market in the world. And for too long, they were charging us higher tax rates than we were charging them. Treat us fairly, and we think we can compete quite fine.
