Episode 231: Senator Mike Braun on the Border Crisis
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Indiana Senator Mike Braun talks with Newt about his recent trip to the United States - Mexico border and what conditions were like there. He also discusses four health care reform bills he’s just introduced, and why health care reform should be at the top of the Republican agenda, next to a strong defense and economy.
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of Neutr World, Senator Mike Braun was elected to the United States Senate |
| 0:08.1 | representing the state of Indiana in 2018. |
| 0:11.6 | He's from Jasper, and before coming to the Senate, he was founder and CEO of Meyer Distributing, |
| 0:18.1 | a company he built in this hometown of Jasper, Indiana that employs hundreds of Americans |
| 0:23.6 | across the country. |
| 0:25.6 | He currently serves on the Aging Committee, Agriculture Committee, Budget Committee, Appropriations |
| 0:30.9 | Committee, and the Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee. |
| 0:35.2 | He recently was part of a Republican delegation that visited the border to see the immigration |
| 0:40.4 | crisis firsthand. |
| 0:42.4 | He's here to talk about his observations. |
| 0:44.9 | He's also leading the way on healthcare reform in the Senate with four new legislative |
| 0:49.6 | acts. |
| 1:00.2 | Mike, welcome and thanks for joining me. |
| 1:03.6 | Could you start by talking about your trip and will you hope to accomplish and will you |
| 1:08.4 | actually learn? |
| 1:09.8 | Sure can, and to put it in context, when I ran back in 2018, the border immigration |
| 1:17.6 | was right up there with the high cost of healthcare and the economy. |
| 1:22.5 | Those were the three big issues. |
| 1:25.0 | The reason it kind of faded into the sunset is because things were working under the Trump |
| 1:30.5 | policies. |
| 1:31.5 | So, unforced air on a part of the Biden administration when Ted Cruz said, you want to come along, |
| 1:37.3 | I needed to, because it was important not only to Americans, but I ran on it when I ran |
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