Mike Braun

If you extrapolate what we are doing into the future, all the programs that do have merit are in peril.

We have to address the fact that we are woefully short on supply of housing in this Nation.

I don't think we have done one in close to 10 years, and when we are structurally running $1.5 trillion deficits...

When you are not taking care of things in the private sector, you are going to look to government to do it.

What Senator Sanders is talking about in Medicare For All is because we have got a broken health care industry.

I think politicians, including Jay Powell at the Fed, through whatever this modern monetary theory is supposed to be, I think it runs us into the ditch in a hard way.

The President put out a blueprint on a budget 10 years out, that shows us actually growing our structural deficits, taking our debt from $30 trillion where it is currently, record high in our country's existence, to $45 trillion.

I think that is something that we got to be aware of.

It is not the job of the Federal Government to ensure economic outcomes.

I think there is now a movement that seeks to use the Federal Government to end equality of opportunity and maybe replace it with equality of outcome.

Americans must be guaranteed a level playing field to succeed economically on their own merits.

I think equality of opportunity is a bedrock of the American dream.

I have always been a believer that you can organize, but you can never let something get out of hand to where it gets too far the other direction.

I think the Government shouldn't be pushing or have it out there on a portal that moves you towards irreversible sex change therapy.

I think that has largely been lost in all the other issues that have come up.

You have got anywhere from huge corporations that, to me, shoulder the biggest responsibility.

I don't think you should game the system by issuing 1099s when, technically, that individual is an employee.

They are not apologetic. They are not even quiet about it. They would want to replace us someday.

It is not a great business plan to borrow your way into the future when a lot of it does not give you a true return on investment.

A lot of this can be done at the grassroots level and hardly cost anything.

When I travel the state, and I visit all 92 counties every year, it is one of the fun parts of the job, workforce, workforce, workforce.

It is interesting that across my state and I think probably across most states, a common theme.

The way that we are approaching this to believe that a 4-year school is going to be the solution, in fact, really isn't the case.

This is an interesting discussion because generally there is a broader kind of opinion on what is needed.

I think at the level of where the crisis still is relative to opioids, that additional authority and then subsequent rulemaking that tries to do more there, most of us would expect that to happen and would be warranted.