Source: United States Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
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BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Larry Kudlow on Sunday Morning Futures where he discussed the Democrats’ upcoming socialist legislative agenda and energy policy. Excerpts and a full video are below.
On Schumer and the Democratic Party:
“Every move that is made, every vote that he calls, he is thinking about [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and the possibility that she will run against him in the democratic primary in New York… Now in addition to that we have a White House tugging at him, Speaker Nancy Pelosi that’s pulling. They are all responding to those very same pressure points. But in my mind, what is such a great tragedy is that [the] democratic party has become this bizarre socialist agenda.”
On the 2024 GOP Presidential Nominee:
“The tradition over the decades of the Republican Party is the presidential nominees often are to be the heir apparent whether it was Bob Dole or George H.W. Bush. But Donald Trump sort of blew up that whole system when he became the nominee and then our President of the United States. I’m not so sure that that tradition won’t be restored… We have the richness in our party of having a really deep bench, a lot of talented people with all the right credentials that can lead this country in a great way.”
On Recent Joint Op-Ed with H.R. McMaster on Trade & Climate:
Last week, Foreign Policy published an op-ed by Senator Cramer and former U.S. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster on “a transatlantic climate and trade initiative that would cut global greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy security, and reduce Russia’s power to coerce Europe.”
“What our piece is suggesting… The European Union has already done that very thing although they have this Nord Stream 2 loophole as it relates to dirty Russian natural gas. We have the cleanest energy production in the world. We had that cleanest manufacturing in the world. What if the European, NATO allies, and the United States worked together and set some sort of carbon border fee on imports coming in much like a tariff?
You and I are free traders and the notion of things like tariffs used to be very uncomfortable for us, but Donald Trump taught us things about America first. It’s not just a slogan. America First is a good policy priority. We are suggesting that we consider some sort of an alliance with our trading [partners], particularly in the European Union, [which] would provide leverage that we already ought to have as clean producers of all things and put Russia at a disadvantage economically [in addition to sanctions]. This would be a way to be leaders globally on climate change without harming, in fact enhancing, the United States’ economy and the America First policy that Donald Trump started as our president.
We often talk about energy security, energy policy, and energy dominance, but remember national security and the geopolitical opportunities [as well]. Twenty percent of the world’s economy, the United States, and our partners in Europe, [that’s] the kind of leverage we can bring to the table that could put people like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin in a very serious defensive posture. It is just one more America First idea that could take shape either as sanctions or as a border fee. But we couldn’t do it alone. We need to do in an alliance with our NATO partners.”
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