{"id":193681,"date":"2020-03-10T09:21:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T14:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=193681"},"modified":"2020-03-10T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T14:22:10","slug":"cramer-outlines-topics-on-fox-business-csi-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=193681","title":{"rendered":"Cramer outlines topics on Fox Business, CSi 117"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Washington (Sen. Cramer’s Office)\u00a0 In case you missed it, Senator Kevin Cramer was on \u2018Mornings with Maria\u2019 on Fox Business this morning. Watch it here<\/a>. Some highlights:<\/p>\n

Topics addressed included:<\/p>\n

On \u2018Mini Super Tuesday\u2019:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you \u2026 have an honest debate head-to-head, whether it\u2019s Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump, Donald Trump\u2019s got a very good message for Michigan. He has delivered on the things he said he\u2019d deliver on. He\u2019s definitely brought some manufacturing back to the Midwest \u2013 and Michigan chief among them \u2013 his work on trade has been fantastic. When it comes to blue collar Michigan, Donald Trump has the message, he has the policies he gets to run on, not just talk about. I think that\u2019s an advantage.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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On the Economy and the Coronavirus:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWell [Democrats] have definitely been cheerleading for a down economy for some time now. I don\u2019t think there were many happy people yesterday except maybe Democrat activists looking for a way to beat Donald Trump. But when it comes to the fundamentals of an economy, setting the market aside for a moment, last week we had a phenomenal report on February jobs that same day I think the markets were down about a thousand points. I think for people in places like the Midwest, particularly in Michigan, they\u2019re looking at their own paychecks, they\u2019re looking at their own job security and thinking, \u2018wow this is pretty good.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cNow, having said all of that, how the leadership deals with this and gets us through this coronavirus will have some impact on how people view the leadership of Donald Trump. To this point, I think he\u2019s been very good, even though many in the mainstream again are cheering for disaster and trying to spin disaster and talk us into it. By and large, I think he\u2019s done a fantastic job.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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On Stimulus Measures:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m open to persuasion, although I would say this sounds a little more like a safety net than it does a stimulus package. I think there are some things we are working on I would rather see us get behind. Let\u2019s pass this big highway bill that came out of our Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously and put people to work and have at the end of it an appropriate federal infrastructure that has as its primary purpose the profitability of the private sector. If we need to, let\u2019s accelerate and elevate the rebuilding of our military and build more fighter jets faster and get our missile system up to date and modernize our nuclear triad. Some of the things that are the federal government\u2019s responsibility anyway and at the end of it we have something to show for it.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cNow that\u2019s not to say I\u2019m against some sort of a short-term safety net because there\u2019s no question there could be disruption in workers\u2019 ability to earn a living through all of this and we need to be sensitive to that. But borrowing money and throwing it out into the street for a spending package isn\u2019t my instinct, but I\u2019m open to persuasion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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On Oil Prices:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cI worry about this in the long run. There is no question you will almost certainly see some sort of a tightening. You will see the value chain in oil production will be squeezed first by the producers. Then we\u2019ll see how the producers themselves come out of it on the other side. At a time of demand decline, having a glut is not healthy but then to have an oversupply strategy on the part of the Russians and the Saudis is devastating. I think we\u2019ve got to have some geopolitical leadership here that brings this all back into play. Frankly all of this other stuff is emotional, but when it comes to commodities, supply and demand and fundamentals still matter in the long run and this looks like it could be a very long down cycle if something doesn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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On Russia\u2019s Role in the Oil Dispute:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThey\u2019re more dependent on it than we are. While we\u2019re very dependent on oil and oil is very good for our economy, we are not a petro state. We have a much more diverse economy and that\u2019s been demonstrated through other down cycles in oil price. We\u2019re more likely to weather this than either of the other two countries arguing right now. None of us should have to go through it or want to go through but if we had to go through it we\u2019re probably better positioned than they are.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Shareable versions will be available here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington (Sen. Cramer’s Office)\u00a0 In case you missed it, Senator Kevin Cramer was on \u2018Mornings with Maria\u2019 on Fox Business this morning. Watch it here. Some highlights: Topics addressed included: On \u2018Mini Super Tuesday\u2019:   \u201cWhen you \u2026 have an honest debate head-to-head, whether it\u2019s Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193682,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193681\/revisions\/193682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}