WASHINGTON, DC – Republican Policy Committee Chairman Kevin Hern (OK-01) joined CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning to discuss President Trump’s historic address to Congress, the future of tax cuts, and the urgent need for fiscal responsibility.

Excerpts:

"First of all, I met with the president before he did the speech, and he was very confident going in that he was going to be able to deliver a message that all Americans wanted to hear. Then I talked to him personally after he left, and he was feeling really good about what the response was and what we saw."

"The Democrats [were] not standing for anything to do with the border. Yet afterwards, in their response, they said, we need to come together on the border. Well, they sure didn’t demonstrate that when they were sitting in the room with all of us when we talked about, you know, the atrocities that’s happened by illegal aliens that have come in and killed our people and then not even stand up and applaud for the victims that are up there."

"If we’re not in the majority, we can’t pass these great policies and get America back where it needs to be… to make America great again… Had President Trump not won the presidency, none of this would be even be talked about. We would still be under Joe Biden’s policy of appeasement around the world, wide open border that the Democrats say they want...and we would see wars everywhere that’s costing literally trillions of dollars of taxpayer dollars."

"President Trump’s been in office 43 days, and he’s already got $1.7 trillion of committed asset development in the United States."

"The tax policy works. We need to codify it, make it permanent and get us back on the road to financial security that we need, that every American deserves, regardless of party."

You can watch the full interview HERE.

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