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John Cornyn: “If we look at what the voters told us on November 5th of…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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VIDEO Cornyn Debunks Media Attacks on DOGE

Published | Video Starts at 15:21

This is not easy. If it were easy, we would have done it before. This is hard. It's politically risky, but it's absolutely critical that we do so. If we look at what the voters told us on November 5th of last year, we saw an overwhelming desire of the American people to change the direction of the country. They gave President Trump and us a mandate for change. And I think what Doge is doing, along with the Trump administration, is very much in line with the mandate that we got from the voters on November 5th. (15:21–15:34)

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Asserts that the election results indicated a strong desire for change in the country's direction.

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