September 1, 2021

NORMANDY, France—I fulfilled a lifelong aspiration this past week by traveling with The Heritage Foundation to visit the Normandy beaches where, in 1944, tens of thousands of American servicemen braved the barrage of the relentless Nazi war machine to liberate Europe from tyranny.

There are few moments in history when the fate of nations truly hangs in the balance. Fewer still, when the stakes are human freedom itself. June 6, 1944, was one of those days.

Witnessing the unfolding tragedy of the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, I could not help but reflect on the differences between American civilian leadership then and now.

The story of D-Day is one of bravery and brilliance. Meticulous planning made it possible to launch the largest armada in history. We had the incomparable leadership of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Our allies—from Britain to Canada to Poland—fought alongside us.

But above all, there was the courage of our servicemen who charged those beaches.

Standing on the bluff overlooking Omaha Beach, I couldn’t help but recall the 75th anniversary of D-Day in 2019. I had the privilege of speaking in Bedford, Virginia, the hometown of the Bedford Boys—44 young servicemen who never strayed far from home until they became part of the 116th Infantry and stormed Omaha Beach.

On D-Day, 20 Bedford Boys fell in the defense of freedom. And today, the National D-Day Memorial stands in their hometown in honor of their sacrifice and that of all who gave their lives on that day.

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan asked us to remember the U.S. Rangers who took the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, to “continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died,” and to be “strengthened by their courage.”

I never have doubted the ideals of our country, or the courage of our armed forces. Today, though, I doubt the judgment of their leaders, especially their commander in chief, President Joe Biden.

For the Americans who played a role in the D-Day landings—from the highest-ranking officer to the least experienced enlisted man—the catastrophe now unfolding in Afghanistan would have been unimaginable.

D-Day was made possible by careful planning. With the assistance of our British friends, we built pipelines under the ocean, vast artificial breakwaters, and landing craft by the score. The entire armada of liberation was organized down to the final bolt on the last Jeep.

The Biden-Harris administration was warned that the withdrawal of U.S. forces ran a terrible risk of handing victory to the Taliban. For all intents and purposes, it appears the administration planned nothing. Now they are improvising a tragedy.

Our military leaders chose the day of Western Europe’s liberation with great care, with consideration for tides, moonlight, and weather. In Afghanistan, it was within our power, as the Trump-Pence administration proved, to draw down U.S. forces slowly while preserving the fighting power of the Afghan army. But the Biden administration set itself an utterly arbitrary deadline in the midst of the annual fighting season, then marched by its own drumbeat to disaster.

Today, our soldiers are not facing down hostile armies and silencing the guns. They are catching babies being tossed to them over barbed wire, while thousands of Americans are at the mercy of evil men who harbored those who launched the attacks of 9/11.

The triumph of D-Day began at the top. Eisenhower knew that we could not win the victory alone. He worked hard to bring unity to the allied armies under his command. Above him stood President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, steely leaders determined to see the fight through.

Where is that unity and determination today? With its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden administration has infuriated the allies who willingly joined us in battle. It has abandoned American citizens who remain trapped in and outside of Kabul. And it has betrayed countless Afghans who risked their lives to help us.

This administration came into office pledging outreach to America’s allies. In six months, it betrayed the Afghans, ignored the entreaties of the British and our other NATO allies, destabilized the region, and emboldened America’s enemies, placing American lives at risk.

The first rules of foreign policy are simple: Stand with your allies. Stand up to your enemies. The Biden administration has done the reverse. It abandoned our allies and handed victory to our enemies.

Since the outset of the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, many are wondering whether the United States will remain freedom’s indispensable nation.

That same question was asked 77 years ago, and it was answered here on the beaches of Normandy. And that question has been answered ever since by the generations of Americans who stepped forward to serve in the uniform of the United States to this very hour.

Today our hearts grieve for the brave Americans lost and injured in the terrorist attack at Kabul’s international airport. We “mourn with those who mourn and grieve with those who grieve, but we do not grieve like those who have no hope”—because our faith gives us hope and heroes give us hope.

America is the leader of the free world and the armed forces of the United States are the greatest force for good the world has ever known.

No failings by this administration ever could diminish what our armed forces accomplished in Afghanistan these past 20 years, any more than they could diminish the valor of the American soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy.

The heroes of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Freedom’s Sentinel brought countless terrorists to justice, made America safer, and earned a place of honor in the history of our nation.

We never will forget their service or their sacrifice, just as we surely never will forget the heroes resting in honored glory on these windswept bluffs overlooking the beaches of Normandy.

This piece originally appeared in The Daily Signal

Former Vice President Mike Pence blasted the Biden administration’s Afghanistan troop withdrawal Tuesday as a “foreign policy humiliation” on par with the Iran hostage crisis and dismissed efforts to cast blame on the Trump administration for the debacle.

“I was in Washington, D.C. on September 11, and the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, it’s a foreign policy humiliation unlike anything our country has endured since the Iran hostage crisis,” Pence told The Brian Kilmeade Show.

“What you’re seeing in the Biden administration I think is just an effort to shift the conversation and shift the blame from just an unspeakably poor effort to withdraw troops from Afghanistan,” Pence added. “We all want our troops to come home but not like that … What the Biden administration has done in this case by arbitrarily announcing that they were going to bring troop levels to zero by September 11 … irrespective of the situation on the ground, set this disaster in motion.”

The Biden administration has repeatedly pointed to the Trump administration negotiating a peace agreement with the Taliban in 2020, as it faces criticism over the chaotic withdrawal effort and rapid collapse of the country.

One of Trump and Biden’s few areas of agreement in 2020 was wanting to end the Afghanistan War, and Pence said there was “healthy debate” within the Trump administration over what a final agreement in Afghanistan would look like. The deal at the time included a release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners and a phased American troop withdrawal, while the Taliban were banned from allowing any foreign terrorists into the country and required to negotiate terms with the Afghan government.

By the time Trump and Pence left office, there were 2,500 U.S. troops remaining in the country. That was the least since the initial 2001 invasion, Pence noted. But he said the difference between how their team would have handled leaving was “diametrically” different from Biden’s, which has earned him criticism from around the world.

In defending the negotiations with the Taliban, Pence pointed to recent Trump foreign policy achievements at the time like destroying the Islamic State caliphate and killing Iranian terrorist Qassem Soleimani as giving the former president greater credibility on keeping his word.

Kilmeade noted the Afghan allies of the U.S. may have lost heart in 2021 after Biden announced the U.S. would be gone by September, as the Taliban stepped up its attacks on them with the knowledge the Americans were leaving soon.

“The difference was strength,” Pence said, when asked how things would have been different if Trump were still in power. “I have no doubt whatsoever that you would not have seen the Taliban march into Mazar-i-Sharif without consequence. You would not have seen the Taliban march into Kabul.”

The Taliban announced this week that it would not allow U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan beyond its Aug. 31 deadline, and there are still an unknown number of Americans stranded in the country.

Pence also said U.S. troops who served and bled in Afghanistan shouldn’t be forgotten.

“The humiliating withdrawal that’s underway today, the complete mismanagement of the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan, does not take anything away from the incredible service that’s taken place over the last 20 years,” he added.

“Our armed forces took the fight to al Qaeda and to the Taliban in Afghanistan, and I think we will mark the 20th anniversary of September 11 without another major terrorist event on American soil as a direct result of the service and sacrifice of those who served.”

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Former Vice President Mike Pence spoke to Brian Kilmeade about the Biden Administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and how the Trump Administration would have handled it. Pence says he never would have left Bagram Air Base and the Trump administration would have enforced the conditions agreed to by the Taliban.

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BRIAN KILMEADE, HOST, THE BRIAN KILMEADE SHOW: Former Vice President Mike Pence has something to say about that. Wrote about it in “The Wall Street Journal” and now wants to join us to talk about it.

Mr. Vice President, great to hear from you.

MIKE PENCE, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Great to be with you, Brian. Thanks for having me on the program and for your clarion voice on the airwaves of America.

KILMEADE: And especially now. I mean, thank you, but it just — I remember every step of the way for the last 20 years, the ups and downs of the Afghanistan War, the invasion, the surge, things that have happened since. And, of course, the agreement that was cut.

First up, did you guys not process visas? And is that problem? And why the airport is so backed up?

PENCE: Well, of course, it’s not the problem. But let me — you’re one of my favorite historians out there, Brian.

KILMEADE: Thank you.

PENCE: So let me — let me push away from the table for just a second. You know, I was in Washington, D.C. on September 11th and the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, it’s a foreign policy humiliation unlike anything our country’s endured since the Iran hostage crisis. But I want to be clear to our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guard and to the families of our fallen, some 2,400 Americans that were lost, 20,000 Americans wounded in Afghanistan.

That the — yes (ph), humiliating withdrawal that’s underway today, the complete mismanagement of the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan does not take anything away from the incredible service that’s taken place over the last 20 years. Our armed forces took the fight to Al-Qaeda and to the Taliban in Afghanistan and I believe we will mark the 20th anniversary of September 11th without another major terrorist event on American soil.

And as a direct result —

KILMEADE: Right.

PENCE: — of the service and sacrifice of those who served. So I think it’s important that we make that clear from the outset to all of the — our service members, you know, I’ve got two in active duty military in my immediate family right now. Our son’s deployed. The reality is, we got to make sure they understand that we will never forget their service or sacrifice. We’ll never fail to honor it.

That being said, what you’re seeing in the Biden administration, I think, is just an effort to shift — to shift the conversation and shift the blame from a — from a, you know, just an unspeakably poor effort to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. Look, we all want our troops to come home but not like that. And our administration, beginning in February of 2020, had reached an agreement that would provide for a gradual withdrawal if certain conditions were met by the Taliban.

To end all attacks on U.S. military personnel and now we’re 18 months, there hasn’t been a single American casualty. In our last year in office, there was not a single American casualty. They had to refuse terrorist, Al-Qaeda, ISIS (INAUDIBLE) safe harbor. And they had to agree to negotiate with Afghan leaders on creating a new government. And I can tell you there was healthy debate within the administration about what that would finally look like —

KILMEADE: Right.

PENCE: — and what, you know, whether or not, you know, that there would be an enduring presence if the Taliban failed. And I, you know, I’ll always keep my opinions between me and the president at the present moment. But I — President Trump always invited a healthy debate.

KILMEADE: Right.

PENCE: But what the Biden administration has done in this case, by arbitrarily announcing that they were going to bring troop levels to zero by September the 11th, they announced America is back, diplomacy is back, irrespective of the situation on the ground, set this disaster in motion. And I can tell you from a position of weakness as opposed to our administration’s position of strength, things would have been —

KILMEADE: But —

PENCE: — I think diametrically the opposite bringing our troops home with honor and not like we’re seeing today.

KILMEADE: Well a couple of things. Did they violate by taking Kabul? Was the — part of the deal is they were not supposed to take Kabul and the minute they did, if that’s a violation, what would you guys have done?

PENCE: Well, look, when we left office, the Afghan government and the Taliban controlled their respective territories. There were no major offensives mounted. And we only had 2,500 American troops in the country; that’s the smallest number since 2001.

And I think the reason why things would have been different, I, you know, people ask a lot in the debate is how would it have been different? And there’s, you know, the administration is very quick to want to point to the past.

Well, I’ll tell you the difference. The difference is strength. When our administration negotiated the agreement with the Taliban, it was just a matter of weeks after we had taken out Qasem Soleimani.

It was just four months after we had destroyed the ISIS caliphate and taken down Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. I mean, the one thing the world knew with President Donald Trump was that when he made it clear that we would use American force to defend America’s interests, he’d follow through on it.

KILMEADE: Well, Mr. Vice President, I think you’re right —

PENCE: But someone (ph) in Syria learned that the hard way with 58 cruise missiles and —

(CROSSTALK)

KILMEADE: Right, (INAUDIBLE) but you know that he wanted to get it —

PENCE: And I — and I’ll tell you, Brian —

KILMEADE: Yes.

PENCE: — I was in the Oval Office when President Trump spoke to Mullah Baradar. And he made it clear at the outset of that agreement that if they broke the agreement, the consequences would be swift and severe. And I truly believe —

KILMEADE: Well — I understand. A couple of things — couple of things, though, Mr. Vice President —

PENCE: — I honestly believe that the Biden —

KILMEADE: — on Baradar in particular — on Baradar in particular.

PENCE: — did not make that clear —

KILMEADE: Right.

PENCE: — and it created — it created the disastrous environment we see today.

KILMEADE: But do you think that Ambassador Khalilzad did a good job because one of the things — and he’s still working — one of the things he did recommend to the president, to Mike Pompeo, that we get Baradar out of prison. He was an aide to Mullah Omar.

We get him out of prison, he’s now running things. He’s the guy we got to talk to now. He was sentenced — he was captured by the CIA and then he was sentenced to prison for eight years, and we got him out. Do you think that was a good move?

PENCE: Look, I think — there’s an old adage in history that you don’t make peace with your allies, you make peace with your enemies. And I can tell you that President Trump and I were elected in 2016 on a promise of getting our troops home.

There’s no question the American people, and not just service families like mine, but the American people wanted to bring our troops home. But we wanted to bring them home with honor. And I believe that from a position of strength, demanding that the conditions be met by the Taliban, that we wouldn’t be seeing what we’re seeing today.

Now, that being said, you know, that’s rearview mirror stuff. I think it’s absolutely essential that every voice in America be a chorus to this president and to this administration saying you’ve got to do whatever it takes to get our American citizens home, to get our troops home safely.

And to bring our allies out of Afghanistan, people that stood with our soldiers in the field but to do that with the kind of vetting that we don’t have people that are slipping through the process that would ultimately threaten our security and —

KILMEADE: Got you.

PENCE: — our citizens and this country.

KILMEADE: Well, now, what about the order in which you would have done this? Is it true —

PENCE: Yes.

KILMEADE: — that you were going to leave Bagram Air Base first as well or were you going to keep Bagram Air Base and not use — and not use Kabul Airport to get citizens out, let alone military, but citizens out?

PENCE: Well — yes.

KILMEADE: Or all (ph) — the people that we want out like our – the people that helped us?

PENCE: Well, what I can tell you is what, you know, what President Trump said a week ago. Which was the logical way to do this would be to bring our citizens out first, to help our allies come out while we still have force presence on the ground.

But you know what was really lacking in this case was less about logistics than it was about a credible threat of the use of force. I mean, whether it be 58 cruise missiles into Syria, whether it be taking down ISIS as our military forces did at the direction of the commander-in-chief.

Taking down Baghdadi, using force to take down Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. What the Taliban knew with our administration was that we would use force to prosecute America’s —

KILMEADE: Can you name —

PENCE: — interest and to defend Americans —

KILMEADE: — Mr. Vice President, can you name the violations —

PENCE: — in Afghanistan.

KILMEADE: Right. Can you name the violations of your agreement that would have led to military action? Number one, the never denounced Al-Qaeda. And Al-Qaeda’s got a presence in this new government through the Haqqani Network that we know of.

Number two is they weren’t supposed to take Kabul. They were supposed to agree to a coalition government. But when you said when the agreement was done, it wasn’t you directly but it was more, you know, the Secretary of State, when the agreement was done, the word was there was going to be a coalition government. But when the agreement was actually signed, if any violation happened, there would be a military strike against them.

But you guys were going to be out in May. If you guys were out in May, how would things have been different? Because one of the things you did is, don’t attack our guys, but they picked up the pace on attacking the Afghans. A lot of people think that dispirited them.

PENCE: Well, I think the difference was strength. I think the difference was with President Trump in the White House and our team on the ground, we pretty — when we left office, there was essentially a stable environment. A year of no American casualties.

And as I said, the Taliban and the Afghan government were in their respective territories with no major offenses. And the one thing I am absolutely confident of is that had we been, you know, had we been in office during this withdrawal, that we would have ensured that those conditions were met.

And if they weren’t met, that we would — we would follow through on the use of force and that we would adjust (ph) and attack accordingly in a manner that put American lives first and the security of our nation first.

I have no doubt whatsoever that you would not have seen the Taliban march into Mazar-e-Sharif without consequence. You would not have seen the Taliban march into Kabul.

And now here we sit with the Taliban in the last 24 hours, you know, making threats if we don’t keep to the August 31st deadline. You know, we shouldn’t be — we shouldn’t be taking orders from the Taliban. We should tell them we’re going to — we’re going to be out when it’s done.

We’re going to be out (ph) when American citizens are out, American troops are out and all of those brave Afghanis that stood with and assisted our effort to defend our freedom in that war-torn land and begin its —

KILMEADE: Would you — would you —

PENCE: — safe passage out of the country.

KILMEADE: Mr. Vice President, would you allow our 5,800 military members to leave the airport and retrieve American citizens and allies — and allies of ours?

PENCE: Well, of course. Look, we have the — and this is — this is — this is owing in part to our administration, we saw the largest increase in investment in our national defense since the days of Ronald Reagan, Brian. You know that.

I mean, our armed forces demonstrated in Iraq and Syria that when they’re given a mission and they’re given the freedom to prosecute that mission, there is — there is no force in the world that can resist them.

And the very idea that the Armed Forces of the United States would hesitate to take such action as necessary to secure a safe passage for Americans out of Afghanistan is — it’s (INAUDIBLE) of me and to any American. We did (ph) — we ought to do what we need to do. We can do it, our military’s more than capable and we ought to tell the Taliban when we’re done and not be listening to them dictating timetables —

KILMEADE: Well they, did.

PENCE: — to our people.

KILMEADE: Would you take back — you know, Jennifer Griffin asked John Kirby, you know, why don’t you take Bagram Airbase back? Could they have two airfields, it’s much better equipped, it’s much more secure and you can be able to get more flights in and out? And he basically said, we don’t want a Monday morning quarterback. Right now, Vice President Pence, and you’re (ph) always considered a presidential contender in the next cycle in 2024, would you do that? Would you take back Bagram Airbase?

PENCE: Well, I can tell you, I wouldn’t have given it up, Brian. I’ve been to Bagram Air Force Base at least a half a dozen times over my course — the course of my career in the Congress and as governor and as your vice president and the very idea that we abandoned Bagram and now have relegated with the withdrawal effort to a civilian airport with one runway is, for me personally, is just incomprehensible.

And I don’t believe our administration would have done that. I believe the success we achieved in taking down the ISIS caliphate was evidence of having a president that gives our military a mission and tells them, go and get it done and is willing to adjust along the way to allow them to accomplish their mission. And so, absolutely.

My bottom line is, you know, again, I love your history books, Brian.

KILMEADE: Thank you.

PENCE: You remember the — you remember the Battle of the Bulge when German forces issued —

KILMEADE: Yes.

PENCE: — some sort of ultimatum to U.S. Army General at the Battle of the Bulge. And he simply wrote back one word, nuts. And he told them — he told them to get lost. He dug in. And I think we ought to make it very clear to the Taliban that we’re going to be there and we’re going to take such actions as necessary to defend our citizens —

KILMEADE: Right. Got you.

PENCE: — defend our troops and defend our allies in the region.

KILMEADE: And Mr. Vice President, I know you’re a radio guy, too, so you understand I got 45 seconds left. But how do you feel about the president not committing to running with you again for reelection?

PENCE: Look, all my focus actually is on — is on 2022. You know, the president and I have talked many times since the inauguration. And I know he feels the very same way. When you look at the radical left agenda being advanced, I mean, you know, a crisis on the border, a crisis in this disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, inflation on the rise, a plan for some $5 trillion in big government socialist spending.

KILMEADE: Right.

PENCE: We have got to win the Congress back. And we’ve got to support conservatives running for governor around the country. I was on the stump just last week with our great candidate in Virginia and I will tell you that all of my energy —

KILMEADE: Got you.

PENCE: — all of my focus is going to be on 2022. We win back —

KILMEADE: And then we’ll talk.

PENCE: — (INAUDIBLE), we in back the Congress and then 2024, we’ll win back America.

KILMEADE: All right, well you did a great job as vice president. It’d be crazy not to run with you. That’s just my opinion. Mr. Vice President, thanks so much, Mike Pence.

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As much as I love America, these are the times that try an optimist’s soul. The Biden administration is running a reckless foreign policy in Afghanistan and elsewhere and a reckless economic domestic policy at home.

In Afghanistan, of course, President Biden has catastrophically bungled his exit strategy. The lack of preparedness is mind-boggling. His willingness to let the terrorist Taliban run the show defies credulity. No one would believe this if not it were, sadly, true.

As the Taliban marched to Kabul, overrunning province after province, the United States raised not a finger of protest. Of course, there was no military response to prevent it. Now the Taliban is running Kabul. With their checkpoints. They are blocking access to the airport.

Abandoning the Bagram military airbase in the dead of night was itself an incredible blunder. Then we had to fight to gain control of the Karzai civilian airport. Here’s a question, though: Why is the strongest military power in the world permitting a bunch of terrorists to operate checkpoints that prevent Americans and Afghans from gaining access to the airport?

Why has not the administration taken strong military action to clear an easy path for Americans, NATO personnel, and our Afghan friends who have been assisting us these many years. The Taliban is stealing passports and other documentation. They are roughing up Americans. They are now preventing afghan citizens from getting to the airport.

Incredibly, we have done nothing about it. How’s this possible? Making it all even worse, America is literally leaving women and children behind. It’s supposed to be women and children first, then the gallant military. Under this commander-in-chief, it’s get the military out first, and women, children, and the Devil take the you-know-what.

They will be cruelly and inhumanely treated by the terrorists under their so-called Sharia law. Not for one minute has it seemed clear to this administration what the consequences will be of leaving a terrorist tribe in charge of a country that is and will continue to harbor other terrorist groups.

The whole lot of them, including their friends in Pakistan, will be plotting terrorist acts against America. Instead of telling the Taliban when and how American Forces and friends will leave the country, President Biden is letting the Taliban set the deadlines. This to me is beyond the pale. We have caved into the Taliban terrorists. Plain and simple.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Macron are advising Mr. Biden to extend significantly the deadline to complete the process of evacuation. Basically NATO didn’t agree with this withdrawal policy to begin with. Mr. Biden, who is going to “patch up the European alliance,” has refused to listen.

My former boss, President Trump, gave Europe hell for not paying its share of NATO expenses. He forced them to pony up. With his hard-nosed businessman’s attitude, he always expressed backing for NATO. Mr. Biden, in contrast, has emerged as the isolationist. Go figure. It’s part of his recklessness.

Meanwhile, every 20 minutes he and his senior staff throw new numbers around concerning who’s still there, who is left, who wants to leave, and where they are all sheltered in place. Our government doesn’t know. Why is this? Because there was no preparatory planning for this withdrawal.

Thousands of people are going to be left stranded. Afghanistan is a battlefield. Our American tradition is that we never leave Americans on the battlefield. This tradition is being broken. We might be abandoning American citizens but we are surely abandoning our Afghan allies.

Right now we are fighting for America’s honor. It’s credibility. It’s standing in the world. Listening to the president and his top aides, I get no sense that they understand this urgency. Yesterday at his presser, the President began by congratulating Speaker Pelosi for her backhanded ways of jamming a reckless budget resolution through the House.

He didn’t get to the Afghanistan catastrophe until well through the presentation. This is a reckless fiscal policy. We’re talking about $6 trillion-plus dollars of additional spending on a far left, Democratic wishlist. That includes vast new entitlements, woke transfer payments, Green New Deal subsidies, amnesty for illegal immigrants, federalization of elections, unionization of the workforce, and an all-out, across the board tax attack on business, investment, middle class blue collar workers, and American foreign commerce.

There isn’t one single iota — not an electron — of pro-growth, pro-job creation, prosperity inducing action in this budget. Not one. This is a prosperity and recovery killer. That is why it is so reckless. This is all about redistribution.

Not growth. It’s all about suffocating new regulations that will strangle the economy. It’s all about paying people not to work, greater welfare dependence on the state without any employment incentives anywhere. That is why it, too, is reckless.

Which takes me back to the beginning. These are policies that try the patience of an optimist like me. So I’m going to work against them and I’m going to work to overturn them. That’s the mission — to preserve America first.

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