Senator Marshall: It’s Time to Get the SAVE America Act on the Senate Floor

Senator Marshall Joins the FOX News Rundown Washington – U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined The FOX News Rundown to discuss the Senate’s legislative priorities, including passing the SAVE America Act, funding the federal government, and advancing commonsense solutions to lower the cost of living for American families. Senator Marshall also discussed his continued efforts to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci accountable, his call for a special counsel investigation into the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the importance of getting the American people the transparency and answers they deserve. Click HERE or on the image above for Senator Marshall’s full interview. On the SAVE America Act and Government funding: “At least we need to get it on the floor somehow, some way, and get the Democrats on the record. That’s what Americans want to see: why can’t we get 10 Democrats to vote in favor of voter ID? I think that’s upfront and what we need to get to do. The other thing I would like to get done, though, is fund the federal government. Three times already, Democrats have shut the government down on funding. It would be great for America to fund the government, maybe a month past the November election, and give some people some stability, some certainty as far as that goes. So we’re making good progress. We’ll see though if Chuck Schumer pulls the chair out from us one more time.” On Senate Republicans’ priorities: “We need to stay focused on the cost of living. Look, we’ve already got our housing bill signed into law. We think that’s going to impact housing. On the health care side of things, We have a bill that’s passed through committee- our price tag bill, forcing every healthcare provider to show you the prices up front that passed through the committee 22 to one, we think that’ll bring down the cost of healthcare $1,000 a month. And then I would add, if we want to bring the cost of gas and groceries, our credit card bill, which forces competition, would bring down the cost of gas and groceries one or 2%. So I think in September we need to stay locked in on the cost of living for Americans.” On Todd Blanche’s Attorney General Nomination: “So, number one, we need to get Todd Blanche across the finish line. I’m calling for a special counsel investigation of Anthony Fauci after what’s been revealed in his diary. So we need a steady person at the helm of that ship to start launching these special counsels out there as well. On the weaponization fund, look, I think we should just move on from it. the attorney general nominee, acting attorney general, has said it’s dead. I understand President Trump said some other things, but look, it’s time for the Republicans to work together. This Republican-on-Republican violence has to stop. We need to put bygones behind us and stay focused on America’s future here. On Dr. Fauci’s Senate Testimony: “Yeah, I was sitting right behind him, and certainly he was just shaking with fear as he read his opening statement through the hearing. You know, he took blow after blow as people used his own words from his own diary, commenting that what he said to his diary was so different than what he was telling the American public. So, pointing out how he had misled Congress, the president, and the people as well. So you know, at the end of the day, that’s why I’m calling from this special counsel. There’s so much out there. As you read Anthony Fauci’s diary, he is drunk with power. He’s more fascinated with his own celebrity than he is with the million Americans that died, the 20 million people that now have long COVID. This would have a great time for him to come clean and say, “Look, lessons learned. He was funding gain-of-function research for over 30 years. That was his ticket to get a Nobel Prize, and that’s why you know he covered up this huge mistake that came out of this laboratory.” On Dr. Fauci’s Diary and COVID origins cover-up: “The diary was absolutely a game changer. It really confirms everything I’ve been saying since January 2020, when I was the first member of Congress to go to the Senate floor and say, “Hey, we’ve got a problem here.” What are the chances this virus came from 2,000 miles away, where the bats live, versus coming from a biosafety level 4 laboratory just a few blocks away? To me, it was obvious then, and it’s even more obvious now. You can literally go back and track lie after lie that he told. By the end of January, he had already concluded this virus could not have come from the wet market. But then he went on television and told the American people, and told the President, that it came from the wet market. Four days later, on February 1, 2020, he was on a phone call with 12 of the world’s leading scientists studying gain-of-function research. Ten of those 12 scientists said it most likely came from a laboratory, yet he continued telling the President the opposite. I think we all realize that if Dr. Fauci had walked into the White House on February 1 or February 2 and said, “Mr. President, 10 out of the 12 greatest scientists in the world believe this virus came from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Americans will have no immunity to it. This is going to be a very lethal virus. We need to circle the wagons right now,” we could have slowed the spread of that virus and saved lives.” “Gosh, it seems like the cover-up is always the worst part of it. It wasn’t his fault that this virus leaked out of a laboratory. But it is his fault that gain-of-function research was being conducted there and that he was partially funding it. No laboratory in America would conduct this type of research anymore for this very reason. But I think the cover-up is the real tragedy. It’s not just the more than one million Americans who died. It’s the fact that so many of them died alone. It’s that we were locked out of our churches. It’s that our kids lost a year of school. It’s that so many students missed their senior year of high school or college. And now, 20 million Americans are living with long COVID. It will be interesting to see how history ultimately answers that question. But the fact that he’s never told the truth, and that he continues to perpetuate this lie, makes me think he’ll go down as a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein in the history books.” On Dr. Fauci’s pardon: “Yeah, I wasn’t surprised. Number one, let’s remember this was the auto-pen pardon, and I think that’s exactly why I want a special counsel to investigate it. The question is: Is it even constitutional? Even if you had Supreme Court justices sitting here in front of me, I bet you’d get a split answer to that question. I think he’s afraid of that issue. And once you start telling lies, it’s really hard to keep them straight. He’s told so many lies over the years that he would have been crazy to come before Congress and try to resurrect or explain all of them.” On rebuilding trust in America’s public health agencies: “It won’t be easy. One of the first lessons I learned as a physician was that once you lose your reputation, you can never truly get it back. That’s where these public health agencies find themselves today. That said, I think the change in administration and the change in leadership are moving us in the right direction. Secretary Kennedy has taken a very different approach than Anthony Fauci. I think Dr. Oz has been a calming force, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has brought a renewed focus on scientific integrity. We also need to get our CDC director across the finish line. She has an outstanding reputation, served as an admiral in the Coast Guard, and has one of the strongest résumés I’ve ever seen. It will take years to rebuild that trust. But I do have faith in the people who are there now because they’re asking hard questions and following the science. Instead of relying on a single study and treating it as settled, they’re working to validate the science by having independent researchers replicate those findings. That’s how good science is supposed to work. As we see more of that, I think confidence will begin to return. But rebuilding public trust will take years, if not decades.” On the top issues for Kansans: “Oh, without a doubt, it’s the cost of living. It’s the cost of gas and groceries. Under Joe Biden, we saw the cost of housing, health care, child care, and property insurance all increase by roughly 50%. Inflation is cumulative, and while it’s not nearly as bad as it was, we still have inflation. We’re moving in the right direction, and wages are beginning to catch up, but everyday families are still struggling to put food on the table. Many have maxed out their credit cards just trying to make ends meet. So when I’m back home, I tell people what we’re doing about it. We’ve already gotten our housing bill across the finish line. It’s going to reduce unnecessary regulations and make it easier and less expensive to build homes. Our health care bill—the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act—would bring down the cost of health care by requiring price transparency. And our credit card competition bill would help lower the cost of gas and groceries by bringing more competition to the payment system. Those are the issues people want to hear about. They want to know what we’re doing to lower the cost of living. At the same time, I think many Americans are beginning to take their safety and security for granted. We also need to remind them how different the situation is today compared to where we were just a short time ago.” On the Iran conflict: “You know, it’s easier said than done, but I’ve said from day one that we need to stay focused on our goals. Number one, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Number two, no boots on the ground. And number three, we have to keep the Strait of Hormuz open. The President needs to do whatever it takes to accomplish those goals, short of putting American boots on the ground. In the meantime, thank goodness for American energy independence. Frankly, I’m surprised gas prices aren’t another dollar a gallon higher. Because the United States is the world’s leading oil producer, we’ve been able to help stabilize energy prices here at home despite the instability overseas.” ### Contact: Payton Fuller