Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It's time to visit with Senator James Langford. First of all,
Speaker 1: good morning to you, and how'd your day so far?
Speaker 2: You know what, it is an early beautiful morning in Washington,
Speaker 2: DC this morning, but it is still facing through the
Speaker 2: same challenges we've had in the past, and at some
Speaker 2: point we're going to get these resolves. But yeah, doing well.
Speaker 2: God's still on the throne. We're still going at the
Speaker 2: work well.
Speaker 1: We've got funding coming up here, and wow, give us
Speaker 1: an update on how that's going. I'm almost afraid to ask.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you should be. So there's twelve appropriation bills that
Speaker 2: are supposed to be voted on before September the thirtieth.
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer has brought up exactly zero of those, not
Speaker 2: a single one that he has brought up, and so
Speaker 2: that means we've got to do funding before September the
Speaker 2: thirtieth of this year. Next year will be the year
Speaker 2: of the tax so we'll work through that in the
Speaker 2: next basically nineteen days. We've got to be able to
Speaker 2: finish up all of the appropriations work and fight over
Speaker 2: that on how that's going to actually be done. We've
Speaker 2: got to get that resolved to be able to fight
Speaker 2: off a government shutdown once we get into next year.
Speaker 2: Regardless of who wins the election, Republicans or Democrats House
Speaker 2: Senator White House, We're going to face tax policy next
Speaker 2: year because the twenty seventeen built expires in December of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, and if we don't act on tax
Speaker 2: next year, taxes go up for every single tax bracket
Speaker 2: in America. And I know Kamala Harris is walking around
Speaker 2: the country telling everyone that the Trump tax cuts only
Speaker 2: affected billionaires, but I would tell you it was every
Speaker 2: single tax bracket in America went down. Every small business
Speaker 2: their taxes went down, All of those all were affected.
Speaker 2: If we don't act on it, it is four hundred
Speaker 2: billion dollars in new taxes that come down by January
Speaker 2: one of twenty twenty six. So it is exceptionally important
Speaker 2: that we get on this tax issue. And we've got
Speaker 2: we have multiple meetings the Shriller Tax Writing Committee. We've
Speaker 2: got multiple meetings going through already right now. I had
Speaker 2: many yesterday and the day before doing some planning on it.
Speaker 2: But the American people have to decide Noveber what the
Speaker 2: direction is going to be on tax lawsy when they
Speaker 2: actually vote.
Speaker 1: There's a lot hanging in the balance here, Senator, Just
Speaker 1: a lot, it appears.
Speaker 2: Is there's a lot in the balance on decisions on
Speaker 2: direction of the country. As people vote this November, they're
Speaker 2: going to determine how we're going to enforce crime in America,
Speaker 2: if we're going to force our southern border and protect it.
Speaker 2: They're going to make a determination what the direction is
Speaker 2: going to be on tax policy, on our economy. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Joe Biden and kamalai Aris have overseen an enormous spike
Speaker 2: in inflation. We continue to see high rates from mortgages.
Speaker 2: All of those things are results of their policies. And
Speaker 2: while they're trying to blame it all on President Trump
Speaker 2: and COVID, it was actually the policy they implemented post
Speaker 2: COVID President Trump left office that really made the dramatic change.
Speaker 2: Just to give you a side by side, I was
Speaker 2: looking to do numbers from the end of the Trump administrations,
Speaker 2: and now gas prices are up almost fifty percent, rents
Speaker 2: across the country are almost fifty percent. We've had more
Speaker 2: than twenty five percent increase in food costs. Some of
Speaker 2: those like egg other things have gone way more than that.
Speaker 2: So these are all the results of policy decisions that
Speaker 2: have been made. And again in the Americans are going
Speaker 2: to make their choice in November which direction they want
Speaker 2: to go out.
Speaker 1: Senator, I've been hearing some Democratic politicians running for office
Speaker 1: here in Oklahoma stating that the reason the energy prices
Speaker 1: and the region the energy situation is the way it is.
Speaker 1: That's mister Trump. We're still operating under his policies. Is
Speaker 1: that what's going on there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're trying to have it both plays. Kamala har
Speaker 2: steps out of it, says that we're producing more oil
Speaker 2: now than we were having the history of the country,
Speaker 2: and Shery takes credit for that. That is the Trump policies.
Speaker 2: It just takes years for the things to be able
Speaker 2: to roll up. We saw a dramatic increase in energy
Speaker 2: exploration under the Trump administration because of the regulation They've
Speaker 2: got there to do it clean, to do it safe,
Speaker 2: and also to be able to do it at all,
Speaker 2: to be able to make sure that we have energy
Speaker 2: production in America. But what's happened is now the Biden
Speaker 2: administration is cut off offshore drilling, off all kinds of
Speaker 2: drilling on any kind of federal lens that chokes off
Speaker 2: the future of energy prices for us, which makes a
Speaker 2: huge difference right now. China is having a huge struggle
Speaker 2: in their economy. They are really having a tough time
Speaker 2: right now, and so they're using less oil in the
Speaker 2: Chinese counomy, which is causing a decrease in price. Many
Speaker 2: people have notice here in Oklahoma that prices have gone
Speaker 2: down some. That is a global issue that's actually happening.
Speaker 2: That's a good thing for us to be able to
Speaker 2: have our energy production here and to be able to
Speaker 2: make sure that's happening. That's certainly not something that's happening
Speaker 2: in the Biden administration.
Speaker 1: Senator, is there anything else you'd like to let us know?
Speaker 2: Do you encourage people to be able to pray for
Speaker 2: the nation as many people stopped and for the country
Speaker 2: yesterday on Notmber the eleventh. All of us remember what
Speaker 2: was happening that day and the response of the but
Speaker 2: courageous team to be able to pray for the nation.
Speaker 2: Very for the peace in Israel. They're fighting terrorism right
Speaker 2: now in this red Senator company, But I'm encourage peable
Speaker 2: not lose continue to be able to serve our neighbors.
Speaker 2: Let's do what Americans do. Let's do it well and
Speaker 2: set the example for the rest of the gonna will
Speaker 2: be turned around. It's not just through a vote. The
Speaker 2: voting is important to each of us. Actually getting a
Speaker 2: chance to be able to serve the people around us
Speaker 2: and do what we say is important.
Speaker 1: Senator, how can folks get a hold of you?
Speaker 2: Well, lots of folks do reatout with me, so a
Speaker 2: lot of folks know how. So they're welcome to be
Speaker 2: able to do to our website Langford dot Senate dot dog,
Speaker 2: Langford dot Senate dot gov. That's got our email address
Speaker 2: now mail address if you want to buy a stamp
Speaker 2: and post Office will be very excited about. If you
Speaker 2: want to be able to reach out to us, I
Speaker 2: own all the numbers are there. You can email us
Speaker 2: through that. You can also go on any of the
Speaker 2: social media platforms at Senator Langford and follow what's actually happening.
Speaker 2: I'd just encourage you not to believe everything you read
Speaker 2: on social media
Speaker 1: When you read all the comments and Senator thank you
Speaker 1: very much for joining us today.