During Tuesday's Senate Republican leadership press briefing, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) discussed the party's focus on the economy and bolstering business growth.
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00:00Sometimes it's just not hard.
00:05When I talk to folks in Oklahoma and I say, what is it you need the government to do or not do?
00:11It's pretty high on the list saying, don't raise my taxes.
00:14Prices under the Biden administration went up 20% with inflation in that four years.
00:19Please don't raise the taxes.
00:20Actually help our businesses to be able to grow by getting out of the way with regulatory issues.
00:25Bring the price of gasoline and diesel down so we can actually do more production
00:30and we get a chance to be able to travel more.
00:32Secure the border and make sure our national defense is done.
00:35That's exactly the debate that we're having right now.
00:38It's what the folks in Oklahoma have asked for over and over again.
00:41Quite frankly, Oklahoma is no different than many other nations and many other states in that way.
00:46People want to be able to see national security, border security.
00:49They want stable prices and they want some way to be able to tell their families,
00:53here's where the government's out of the way and we can succeed in our small businesses
00:57or grow our manufacturing and to be able to be successful.
01:00That's the focus of this week.
01:02It's the first step of multi-steps that have got to happen to be able to get this done,
01:06but we're ready to take the next step to get it done this week.