WASHINGTON— Today, Senator-elect. Jim Banks (R-IN) released a policy document outlining his top priorities for the 119th Congress: Fight for Working Families, Strengthen American Industry, Refocus the Pentagon on the Warfighter, Restore Traditional Values and Stop Wokeness, Put an End to the Border Crisis, Defend American Workers From China, Unleash U.S. Building Power, and Dismantle Needless Bureaucracy.
You can read the full document here.
Said Senator-elect Banks, “In 2021, I wrote a memo calling on Republican leaders to accept the gift that Donald Trump gave us and cement the GOP as the party of the working class. Now, I’m offering a blueprint to do that. In the Senate, I plan to build our 2024 coalition by working with President Trump to enact a policy agenda that puts American industry, American citizens, and American families first.”
Key Excerpt:
“This month’s election gave the GOP a clear mandate: come January, congressional Republicans must develop, pass, and enact a legislative agenda that places working Americans and their families squarely at its center. Working hand in hand with President Trump, we will build an economy that creates opportunity for hardworking Americans, reject wokeness and anti-Americanism at every level of our society, and rebuild our defense-industrial base and refocus our military on winning wars.”
Background:
Senator-elect Banks is the son of a lifelong factory worker and a nursing home cook. He spent the first years of his life in a trailer park in Columbia City, Indiana, and was the first person in his family to attend college.
Banks’ working-class memo from 2021 has been cited frequently as Republicans continue to grow their share of working-class voters each election.
Senator-elect Banks has maintained that providing relief for working-class families must be the focus of Republicans’ upcoming tax reform efforts.
