{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/barrasso-on-meet-the-press-slams-crazy-democrat-manifesto/", "Barrasso on Meet the Press Slams Crazy Democrat Manifesto", "2026-09-20", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "Senate", "WY", "John Barrasso", "B001261", "www.barrasso.senate.gov", "barrasso", "https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom/news-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Senate Majority Whip, today joined Kristen Welker on NBC\u2019s Meet the Press to highlight the contrast between commonsense Republicans and crazy Democrats. He also discussed how American peace through strength is critical in stopping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Click HERE to watch Senator Barrasso\u2019s full interview.\n\nOn the contrast between Commonsense Republicans and Crazy Democrats:\n\n\u201cPeople vote about what\u2019s going on in their life and their future. And we know we need to do more, we need to get more money into people\u2019s pockets. That\u2019s what Republicans want to do.\n\n\u201cBut let\u2019s talk about what we have done, and that is, we\u2019ve prevented a $4 trillion tax increase. We\u2019ve gotten rid of taxes on tips and Social Security and on overtime. \u201cAnd we know what the Democrats would do if they were able to take over. They would put all those taxes back on for the purpose of paying for healthcare for illegal immigrants. So they want to put taxes on waitresses, on nurses who work overtime, firefighters, and on our seniors.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s a huge difference between where Republicans want to take this country and where Democrats want to take this country.\n\n\u201cThose Democrats that are so unpopular in your poll. Why? They want to eliminate Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. They want to defund the police. They want to get rid of the military. They want to open the borders. They talk about opening the prisons and putting these prisoners back in our communities. That doesn\u2019t make us safer. It doesn\u2019t make us more prosperous. And that is the difference between common sense and the craziness, and I think that\u2019s what this election is going to be about.\u201d\n\nOn the importance of American Energy Dominance:\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re always looking for ways to put more money in people\u2019s pockets, and I hear it in Wyoming all the time at the grocery store, at the gas station. People are paying more, and we need to do more, and that\u2019s why we need more American energy production. We need to get rid of regulations. We need to do more with permitting \u2013 that\u2019s legislation we\u2019re working on now.\n\n\u201cThe President and Republicans are focused on all of those things. At the time, the Democrats have gone so far to the left that they don\u2019t want to do those sorts of things. And I\u2019ll tell you, once this war in Iran is over, diesel prices are going to go down and stay down under President Trump. But they would stay up forever under the Democrats. \u201cAnd specifically, diesel in Wyoming. And I was in Meeteetse, Wyoming, last week, talking to ranchers and farmers there. Diesel is over $6 a gallon now, but in California, it\u2019s over $8 a gallon. And the difference is the rules, the regulations, all the climate issues in California. If the Democrats took over, prices would go up to those levels, which are over $2 higher in California than they are in Wyoming right now.\u201d\n\nOn American peace through strength:\n\n\u201cEveryone wants the war to end. Our children and America are safer with Iran not having a nuclear weapon. And what we see now is the pressure campaign is working. \u201cIran is continuing their current playbook. I mean, what are they doing right now? Increasing some attacks and then saying, \u2018We demand talks.\u2019 That\u2019s the way they\u2019ve continued to do it. They are more desperate. We\u2019re going to continue with what we\u2019re doing with the strikes, with the sanctions, and also with negotiations.\n\n\u201cIran has never been weaker. Inflation is rampant in Iran now. It\u2019s at an 80-year high. They are in shambles in terms of their military, their leadership, in terms of their economy. And it\u2019s going to get worse for them because we have now passed \u2013 the House and the Senate in bipartisan ways \u2013 the Lindsey Graham Sanctions Act, which has to do with both Iran and Russia. \u201cSo the heat is going to be turned up again on Iran. And what we know is this is American peace through strength, and we\u2019re going to continue on this course\u2026 \u201cWe need to make sure Iran can never get a nuclear weapon. That has to be the bottom line. Iran has been at war with the United States for the last 50 years \u2013 attacking, killing Americans. President Trump is the first one to actually act and act decisively on that. We need to make sure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.\u201d\n\nOn Democrats being the party of open borders:\n\n\u201cThe President is in office today because Joe Biden and the Democrats let in over 10 million illegal immigrants \u2013 sometimes up to 10,000 a day. And they included drug dealers, criminals, gang members. One of whom killed Laken Riley, a nursing student out for a jog. \u201cAnd what we also know is that the candidates that are running on this Democrat Socialist agenda that is way out there \u2013 the Democrat candidate in Texas wants to lay out a welcome mat at the Southern Border. You know, I can run through the states of the candidates that want to destroy ICE, tear ICE apart, say ICE is evil. I don\u2019t agree with that. 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