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U.S. Senator Roger Marshall appeared on Newsmax: The Record with Greta Van Susteren to discuss President Trump's recent executive actions and economic strategies. Key topics included tax cuts, manufacturing jobs, and trade relations with China.

Senator Marshall highlighted President Trump's proposal to reduce tax rates to 15%, stating, "Welcome to the world of Donald Trump. He did talk about decreasing the tax cuts to 15%, and I want Americans to remember what happened when we decreased it from 35% to 21%. I think number one is we saw record growth in federal government tax revenues, but we also saw 401k’s jump as well – so I think that this makes perfect sense to me. President Trump, the great negotiator out there – jobs, jobs, jobs. President Trump is trying to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States."

He emphasized the importance of energy costs and labor in determining manufacturing viability under Trump's "America First" agenda: “This is part of President Trump’s America First agenda. If you think about manufacturing, it’s energy cost, and then people – the labor is what determines what we can manufacture, the raw material. So I think he’s kind of thinking about all these pieces of the puzzle…”

Regarding manufacturers shifting operations from China, Marshall noted a trend towards South America and Vietnam: “A lot of this is dependent upon raw earth materials – so I think you’ve already seen a lot of the manufacturers are bringing that to South America, and then a lot of it’s moving to Vietnam as well. India is doing a lot of it as well. So we need to keep moving those out of the Chinese market."

Marshall also addressed Trump's decision for the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), expressing criticism: “We should have gotten out of the WHO years ago... They should be focusing on clean water, on clean sewage, vaccines as well. But instead, they’re way outside of their mission."

Finally, he discussed NATO funding requirements set by Trump: “I was over in Belgium recently... Europe needs to take care of themselves... Italy alone has a GDP the size of Russia."