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David Perdue At The Resurgent Gathering

August 5, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: 2020 election, economy, global security, national debt

David Perdue at The Resurgent Gathering
Marc Giller, The Resurgent

Georgia Senator David Perdue began his conversation with Erick Erickson this morning on a positive note, praising the state of the economy under President Donald Trump and touting the many accomplishments made by the White House and Republicans in Congress.

Perdue said that after Trump promised action on cutting regulations, unleashing the energy sector, rolling back taxes and repealing the most onerous provisions of Dodd-Frank, Republicans worked together and delivered. A a result, unemployment has gone down and middle class income has gone way up. Perdue added that it makes him “bananas” when Democrats try to claim credit by saying that the economic expansion over the last three years resulted from the policies of Barack Obama. Democrats, he said, “were doing everything they could to kill the economy.”

The conversation then turned to the national debt—$22 trillion and counting. Perdue distilled that down to a sobering number: $1 million per household in America. He outlined five courses of action that can help arrest debt growth and start to turn it around.

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David’s Conversation With Erick Erickson At The Resurgent Gathering 2019

August 5, 2019  |  

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A ‘No’ Vote On The Budget Deal Is A Vote For More Spending

August 1, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: budget deal, continuing resolution, global security, military, national debt, national defense

A ‘no’ vote on the budget deal is a vote for more spending
By U.S. Senator David Perdue (R-GA)
Washington Examiner

When President Trump set out to negotiate a budget deal, he had two primary goals: continue to reduce discretionary spending as a percentage of the economy and fully fund our military.

Those goals were accomplished last week when the Trump administration and congressional leaders struck a deal on spending caps and the debt ceiling.

Unfortunately, many of my Senate colleagues are considering voting no on this deal, because they want to reduce spending. Well, so do I.

In this case, however, a no vote actually is a vote to increase spending over time.

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David Talks Funding Process & Trade On Fox Business

July 19, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, Latest Videos, News From The Trail Tagged With: continuing resolutions, funding process, military, national debt, trade

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David Discusses His Plan To Fix Washington’s Broken Funding Process

June 13, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, Latest Videos, News From The Trail Tagged With: budget process, Iran, national debt, national security

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Perdue Touts ‘Economic Turnaround’ at CPAC

March 2, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: economic growth, jobs, national debt

Georgia Lawmaker Touts ‘Greatest Economic Turnaround’ Under Trump
Rachel del Guidice
The Daily Signal 

A Georgia lawmaker and former business executive says the economy is seeing historic gains under President Donald Trump.

“This is the greatest economic turnaround in U.S. history, 5 million new jobs … we’re growing the economy,” Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., told the Thursday morning crowd of conservatives gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

“The Obama administration … by the way, that was eight years [of] the lowest economic growth in U.S. history,” Perdue said.

He said that all Americans, not just some, are seeing the benefits of the Trump economy, especially since the president signed Republican lawmakers’ tax cuts into law on Dec. 22, 2017.

“We’ve got … the lowest unemployment in 50 years, [and the] lowest African-American, Asian, and Hispanic unemployment ever,” Perdue said. “So this is moving in the right direction.”

Perdue spoke during a discussion of the national debt moderated by Tim Chapman, executive director of Heritage Action for America, the lobbying arm of The Heritage Foundation.

“Taxes were not the government’s money in the first place,” Chapman said at one point. “It was the people’s money in the first place.”

Perdue also touted the success of Republicans’ tax reform package, which Adam Michel, an analyst on tax policy and the federal budget at The Heritage Foundation, says has allowed a typical family of four to get a $2,917 tax cut this year.

Over the next 10 years, due to the growing economy, Michel predicts, an ordinary American “will benefit from over $26,000 more in take-home pay, or $44,697 for a family of four.”

“What we found is, if [we] do the right things and what we believe, we can get good results,” Perdue, former CEO of Dollar General, said. “We passed the historic tax bill …  and last year alone, a trillion dollars of our [corporate] inversion gross profits came back into the economy. So collectively, we’ve freed up about $6 trillion to go back into this economy.”

Perdue charged the CPAC crowd to keep their lawmakers honest.

“I believe that we, you and I, can have an impact on this town, but we have got to maintain accountability of the people that we put in office,” he said.

CPAC, the largest annual national gathering of conservative activists, runs through Saturday at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington.

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David Discusses The National Debt At CPAC

February 28, 2019  |  

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David Discusses North Korea & The $22 Trillion Debt On Fox Business

February 28, 2019  |  

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Year Of The Turnaround

January 7, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: Dodd-Frank, economic growth, economy, global security, health care, immigration, jobs, judges, judicial activism, level playing field, national debt, obstruction, President Trump, Robins Air Force Base, trade, VA

2018 Was The Year Of The Turnaround
By Sen. David Perdue (R-GA)

America is experiencing the greatest economic turnaround in U.S. history. Two weeks after President Donald Trump was inaugurated, I was in a small meeting in the Oval Office to establish the agenda for 2017 and 2018. He said that job one was to grow the economy, and he laid out a plan to focus on regulations, energy, taxes and Dodd-Frank. President Trump’s agenda is working.

When I ran for the U.S. Senate in 2014, I talked about how $6 trillion was not at work in our economy. By rolling back regulations, undoing the most onerous parts of Dodd-Frank and changing the tax code to end the archaic repatriation tax, we’ve begun freeing up that $6 trillion to work in our economy. Look at the results.

More than 4 million new jobs have been created. Middle-class income is the highest it’s ever been. Total unemployment is at a 50-year low. African-American unemployment is the lowest ever recorded. More than 1,500 bureaucrats have been fired at the VA for poor performance. Consumer confidence is at a 20-year high. Small business optimism is at a 35-year high.

President Trump promised to be there for farmers in Georgia and around the country. In December, we got a good Farm Bill across the finish line.

The U.S. Senate has taken action to fill judicial vacancies. Eighty-five federal judges have been confirmed. Nearly one out of every six circuit court judges was nominated by President Trump.

President Trump has been successful in getting European nations to commit to paying more for NATO. We’ve begun rebuilding our military. We are closer to a level playing field for American workers and businesses because of new trade deals with South Korea and Canada and Mexico. We have brought China to the trade table and are working toward zero tariffs with the European Union. We have rebuilt relationships with important allies.

After years of disinvestment, President Trump had to rebuild our military and get our readiness going again. Georgia is playing a major role in this effort. Robins Air Force Base has been named the home of the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System. The Army’s Cyber Command and Cyber School of Excellence continue to build their capability in Augusta. Production of the Columbia Class submarines that are coming soon to Kings Bay has been boosted.

Georgia is also seeing the results of the economic turnaround. Household income in Georgia grew by 4.3 percent in 2017. The population of Georgians living below the poverty line is the lowest it’s been since 2006. Unemployment claims in Georgia fell by 17 percent in 2017 and are the lowest they’ve been in 44 years.

These are the results of policies that boost private sector job creation and grow the economy, not government. Thanks to 16 years of leadership under Govs. Sonny Perdue and Nathan Deal, Georgia has been named the best state in the country in which to do business for six straight years. Just as I worked with Gov. Deal, I am already working with Gov.-elect Brian Kemp to ensure Georgia remains the best state in the country in which to do business.

There’s much more work to do. Health care, immigration and infrastructure are at the top of the president’s agenda for this year.

Unfortunately, Democrats have shown they will do whatever it takes to obstruct this president’s agenda, including shutting down the government. Political self-interest cannot continue to come before the national interest. We must break through the gridlock in order to deal with the big issues, including the $21 trillion debt crisis. This year’s economic growth is the first step toward tackling this debt. Now it’s time for action to change Washington’s broken budget process, cut redundant agencies, save Social Security and Medicare, and get after spiraling health care costs. Each of these is critical to dealing with the debt over the long-term.

The results of 2018 are not just Republican talking points. They are American accomplishments, some of which were done with bipartisan support. In 2019, we have to keep up the momentum. At the federal level, the key question in 2019 will be whether House Democrats will work with the president to legislate, or will they yield to political self-interest and only investigate?

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Perdue Proposes Overhaul of Washington’s Funding Process

November 27, 2018  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: appropriations, budget process, continuing resolutions, funding process, national debt, shutdown

Sen. Perdue pushing overhaul of federal appropriations process
By Dave Williams, Atlanta Business Chronicle
November 27, 2018

U.S. Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., and two of his Republican colleagues are calling on Congress to reform the appropriations process to make sure the federal government is funded on time.

Perdue and GOP Sens. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Joni Ernst of Iowa are introducing a plan to create specific deadlines for passing annual budget and appropriations bills. The proposal will be taken up by a bicameral, bipartisan committee formed last February to review the process and recommend changes.

“Washington is locked in a cycle of continuing resolutions and last-minute spending deals,” Perdue said. “To be successful, this joint select committee must create a politically neutral platform with specific milestones for completing funding and impose severe consequences if members of Congress don’t get the job done.”

Lawmakers returned to Washington this week for a two-week lame-duck session needing to reach a funding agreement with the White House by Dec. 7 or face a partial government shutdown. The key sticking point is President Donald Trump’s request for $5 billion for a border wall.

The 16-member Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform, which includes Perdue, has until the end of the year to agree on changes to the process and present them to the full Congress for a vote.

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