Eric Schmitt

The American people spoke pretty loudly.

It doesn’t happen every day.

People have talked about defunding NPR and Corporation for Public Broadcasting for a long time, but it’s never happened.

That is what the rescissions process is for, is you find it and you cut it out.

You’re gone, and you need to fold it up into the State Department so that your mission aligns with core American interests.

Look, we want to be successful, and I think that kind of success brings its own momentum.

It’s up to us, then, as Republicans, to say, ‘Okay, we’re going to find this nonsense and we’re going to root it out.’

There can’t be too much communication; there can’t be too much information with senators.

we are on the precipice in this Chamber right now to do something that is rarely done in this town, which is to identify waste, fraud, and abuse and actually do something about it. This is a rare thing. It is an important thing. It is…

As I’ve said many times before: America isn’t an economic zone. It isn’t an airport with a shopping mall attached. It’s our country. It’s our people. It’s our home.

The House’s Big Beautiful Bill addressed the urgent need for a remittance tax. But we can go further. I’m introducing legislation to quadruple the proposed remittance tax — from 3.5% to 15%. America is not the world’s piggy bank. And we…

Thankfully, that’s not true. It’s very much in the bill we just passed.

We’re taking back our country.

I am proud that this breakthrough provision has been included in the Big Beautiful Bill. This will provide much needed relief for individuals with disabilities who have waited far too long to be on the waiting list to receive services…

It clearly looks like a political assassination, and there's just no room for that in this country.

There's so much waste. There's so much fraud, There's so much abuse in our government. I'm glad there was a laser-like focus on it. We ought to make many of those reforms permanent, but there probably ought to be some investigations here…

I rise today for National Police Week to honor the courageous men and women of law enforcement in Missouri and across our great country. Over the past decade, our police officers have weathered a flood of propaganda and lies, repeated and…

I rise for two things. First, I wanted to make the Chamber aware of the passing of legendary Missouri Senator Kit Bond. Former Senator Bond served as Missouri's Governor. He was I think at the time Missouri's youngest Governor and still is…

I would like to address that. If this were a blanket hold, if these weren't indiscriminate, maybe that would be productive, but these are indiscriminate holds. I would offer to this body that not only is the Senate broken through this…

I rise today to engage in this great debate that is raging across our country. Turn on the TV, read the newspapers, or open your phone, and you will be overwhelmed by the back-and-forths over tariffs, trade deficits, prices, and markets…

I rise today to honor Mr. Zachary Northcutt of Florida for his promotion to lieutenant commander of the Navy after 12 years of dedicated service to our country in the U.S. Navy. Before coming on to serve as a legislative fellow in my…

I spoke on this topic last week, but there is just so much more to talk about this week. This is about the important work that President Trump and Elon Musk and the other folks at DOGE are doing to save taxpayer dollars. Just this past…

I rise to bring attention to the cost- cutting efforts of President Trump and DOGE. A lot has been said about DOGE's work in the media in the last month. The truth is, DOGE is working tirelessly to cancel grants and funding that taxpayers…

I rise today to argue for a swift and decisive confirmation of Elbridge Colby as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. It is common today to hear leaders in the foreign policy establishment talk of upholding the rules-based international…

The age of ‘America last’ foreign policy is over.