{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-kudlow-on-fox-business-network/", "ICYMI: Tuberville Joins\u00a0Kudlow on Fox Business Network", "2024-07-10", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined \u201cKudlow\u201d on Fox Business Network to discuss the current economic state under the Biden-Harris administration and the policies the Republican Party has put forward to get the economy back on track. Senator Tuberville also spoke about the need to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to ensure illegal immigrants do not vote in our elections.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s remarks can be found below, and his full interview can be watched here.\n\nON SUCCESS OF TRUMP ECONOMIC POLICIES\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cSenator Tuberville, sir, wonderful to see you again. Let me just stay on this theme for one second. All of a sudden, Trump\u2019s policies, which are very similar to the ones\u2014his policies this time, very similar to the ones, his policies in the first term\u2014there was no inflation in the first term. But all of these pundits, and left-wingers, and goodness knows what\u2014they\u2019re all saying it\u2019s going to be inflationary in the second term. Same policies, more inflation, huh? I don\u2019t understand this, Senator Tuberville. I need help. You need to explain it to me.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, we\u2019re in the worst inflation in four decades. 1.4 percent growth\u2014pitiful growth\u2014last quarter, Larry. This country\u2019s in trouble. We keep telling everybody that. I was around the State of Alabama last week, and young kids cannot afford to buy a home. We\u2019re losing our middle class. We\u2019re printing 80,000 dollars a second, 4.6 million dollars a minute. It\u2019s the only way we\u2019re keeping this economy pumped up. And then as you said, the border is out of control. And we\u2019re spending a billion dollars a month\u2014the American taxpayers are, not the federal government. American taxpayers have funded over a billion dollars a month for all these people coming across the border.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cWell, I would say that Biden policies cause inflation. Wait a minute. That\u2019s what the facts show. The factoids show that. I mean, I just don\u2019t understand how people\u2014Alright, Biden\u2019s gonna be anti-inflationary, really? What happens to that argument? He spent tons of money, raised taxes, opened the border to millions and millions of immigrants\u2014all these things that are supposed to be so wonderful. And, yes, the inflation rent went sky high. They\u2019re blaming Trump for Biden policies, but Trump\u2019s against Biden policies.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cExactly. I had a good meeting this morning and a hearing with one of your old buddies, David Malpass, former World Bank president, and we talked about the two things that we have to do in this country to get our economy back. And you and he know a lot more about this than I do, but it\u2019s about the energy, and it\u2019s about everything to do with regulations. We have got to put the Trump deregulation [policies] back into our economy. Let people breathe. Give our farmers a chance. Give our small businesses a chance. Drill, baby, drill. He\u2019s right on top of that, and by the way, he speaks very highly of you, Larry.\u201d [\u2026]\n\nON PRESIDENT BIDEN\u2019S COGNITIVE DECLINE\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cSenator Tuberville, let me just ask you, our great Grady Trimble was reporting, was there a Democratic cover-up now about Joe Biden\u2019s decline. Is it actually a real cover-up?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cOh, yeah. It was a deep cover up. We all knew it here in the Senate and the House because we had people go to the White House. President Biden would just sit there when they would talk about a subject. He\u2019d have his cronies come in and do all the talking, his Chief of Staff. We knew it was all hidden behind the scenes. They were hoping to keep it to where they could get by that first debate. It didn\u2019t work. He crashed and burned. You know, he\u2019s a sick man. Unfortunately, people do get sick when they get to that age, and you hate that. But at the end of the day, they\u2019re having a tough time up here. At the caucus meeting today, I heard one of the Democrats was asked by one of the media people says, \u2018It looked like a funeral coming out of this meeting,\u2019 He says, \u2018Don\u2019t give a funeral a bad name. It\u2019s worse than that.\u2019 They\u2019re struggling up here, Larry, right now, and they\u2019re trying to get the ship back in order. But I\u2019d tell you about forty-eight hours ago, I didn\u2019t think that Joe Biden would make it. Now, I think that Jill and Joe have talked their way back into possibly making it through this tough time, but that\u2019s okay. You know, Donald Trump\u2019s a guy that\u2019s gonna bring this country back because it\u2019s not about the people. It\u2019s about the policies. And we know who\u2019s got the best policies to bring this country back\u2014it\u2019s Donald Trump.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYeah. And you have to figure the brouhaha over Mister Biden and the cover up and all the questions about his cognitive disabilities and so forth. That is, of course, his own performance at the debate, he has only himself to blame. I mean, that\u2019s done great damage to the Democratic Party. The other thing, it\u2019s so interesting is the Democratic convention in Chicago is not gonna really be a convention, is it? Most of it\u2019s gonna be online. It\u2019s gonna be [a] virtual convention, which is very weird. And I think people will take note of that weirdness.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cOh, yeah. They might change their mind on that, Larry. They need to get together if they\u2019re gonna have any chance to win. But it\u2019s not just hurting Joe Biden, it\u2019s hurting down ballot [races]. It\u2019s hurting the senators. It\u2019s hurting the congressmen. It\u2019s hurting all the way down to the county and state and local elections. So, they\u2019ve dug this hole for themselves. We\u2019re just gonna let them go with it and see what happens, but it\u2019s tough times with the people, the taxpayers of this country, Larry. They\u2019re the ones that are hurting, and we\u2019re up here playing games with people\u2019s attitudes, with [\u2026] the way they handled themselves, it\u2019s just absolutely amazing me to see all this happen right here before the election.\u201d\n\nON DEMS\u2019 REFUSAL TO SUPPORT THE SAVE ACT\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cSpeaking of playing games on Capitol Hill, the Democrats and the House and Senate are absolutely obsessive over their opposition to the SAVE Act, where you would have to prove citizenship in order to vote. Now, in this day and age, with roughly ten million illegal immigrants crossing the border in recent years, I would think proof of citizenship would be a very commonsense policy. Democrats are absolutely obsessed with defeating this bill. Why is that, sir?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, Mike Lee, Senator Lee, and I, we came out with this in the Senate, Chip Roy in the House, of the Save Act. And we saw that nineteen states\u2014blue states\u2014had already said, \u2018Okay, we\u2019re gonna give driver\u2019s license to illegals.\u2019 Now wait a minute. That\u2019s gonna allow them to vote. [\u2026] If they go to Social Security and sign up for Social Security, they are asked to register to vote. It is out of control. [\u2026] Larry, I was at the Dari\u00e9n Gap in Panama this past week, talking to people at the border down there. It\u2019s not ten million. It\u2019s closer to twenty million people that have come across in our country. They are scared to death down there, and it\u2019s not just Venezuelans coming across. It is also Africans that are ISIS. They\u2019re coming over by the droves, and so we\u2019ve got a huge problem of terrorists coming in this country, illegals voting, but that\u2019s what the Democrats live off of. They have nothing else to play with other than getting the power back by these illegals voting.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cWell, Senator, just last point, when you mentioned foreign policy, you mentioned terrorism, world terrorism, very good article in The Wall Street Journal today. Trump is not the threat to NATO. NATO is meeting in Washington for the next few days. Trump is not the threat to NATO. It\u2019s the China, Russian, Iran, access that\u2019s the threat to NATO. And you don\u2019t see Mr. Biden taking any actions against it. In fact, Biden said the other night, he was telling George Stefanopoulos in that TV interview. He\u2019s saying, \u2018Well, I shut down Putin.\u2019 I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s shut down exactly. Biden said, \u2018Don\u2019t\u2019 and Putin said, \u2018I will do\u2019 and went into Ukraine and is still there. What is up with this? Where does Biden think he\u2019s uniting NATO and shutting down Putin?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, first of all, congratulations to the American taxpayers for funding Europeans\u2019 defense for the last seventy-five years. And that\u2019s what President Trump said, \u2018Pay your dues. Do what you need to do, but help out.\u2019 [\u2026] The American taxpayer has been paying this for years, but you\u2019re exactly right. Joe Biden has shown weakness on everything that he\u2019s done from Israel to Yemen, all the way over to Ukraine, to Taiwan. There\u2019s no leadership here, Larry. We have to get leadership here. We\u2019re gonna get overrun by a lot of people, not just two or three. We have a lot of things going on. Africa is exploding. Because Russia now is going into Africa taking over our bases. Our bases in Africa because we\u2019ve been run out, and Joe Biden said nothing about it. We\u2019ve lost all kind of faith from some of our former allies all over the world.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cWow. Wow. Alright. We\u2019ll talk some more. Thank you, senator, Tommy Tuberville. We appreciate, sir, very, very much.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cThank you.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:24:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-kudlow-on-fox-business-network/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.2427330259233713, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}