U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo says he prays for President Donald Trump every night because of the media’s coverage.
“I don’t think anyone else could stand the criticism and hate and unjustified attacks on him and his family. I don’t think anybody in this room could; I know I couldn’t,” the 4th Congressional District representative said Tuesday during a meeting of the Marion County Republican Women at Calvary Baptist Church. “It’s nonstop. What the media doesn’t get is that the more you attack our president, the more we’re going to stand with our president. You don’t hear much about things with the Republican-controlled House and Senate in the big media. Thank goodness our weekly newspapers and our conservative radio programs are still reporting the news, but our mainstream media is not.”
Palazzo, a CPA from Gulfport who has served in Congress since 2011, said he always enjoys coming to Marion County.
“My relationship with Marion County and especially Columbia goes back 30 years or so to when I was a member of a high school fraternity called Phi Kappa. You may have heard of it. Your children or grandchildren may have been in it. It was a fraternity that was focused on faith in God, community service and brotherhood,” he said.
The 48-year-old spoke about the work being done in Washington.
“You know the House has been continuously working for eight years, the first two we were continuously pushing back Barack Obama’s government overreach and expansion of government,” he said. “After two years of them controlling everything, they gave us Obamacare, they gave us Dodd-Frank, they gave us all of the executive orders and social experimentation in the military.
“We’ve been working. You sent us the Senate and then you sent us a Republican president so we can finally reverse all the damage that took place in just two short years of Democratic control.”
Palazzo said he was concerned with the Senate’s slowness to act on some measures the
“We passed over 600 bills in the House during the 115th Congress,” he said. “500 of them are sitting in the Senate just languishing.”
Palazzo spent nearly 20 minutes encouraging constituents to stay connected and to ask questions.
“From what’s been said, you would think we had committed a heinous crime with the jobs and tax cut act,” he said. “You’re OK with me lowering your taxes aren’t you? We’re trying to tax money out of the treasury and send it back to the people that sent it there. I believe you can spend your money better than I can.”
An audience member mentioned that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had called the tax cuts “crumbs.”
“Those crumbs are yummy crumbs,” Palazzo replied. “Pay raises, bonuses, wage increases, job expansions, cap-ex growth. We have the highest small business confidence in the past three decades. That is humongous. It’s because the government is not stifling entrepreneurs and job creation. We’re getting out of the way. We’re fostering his climate with less taxes and less regulations.”
Palazzo spoke of many other Republican priorities, including the repeal of the individual Obamacare mandate, securing the borders and fully funding the military.
“We’re committed to securing our borders and one of the things I’m committed to is using the National Guard,” he said. “I’m a member of the National Guard. Let’s not wait to hire those 5,000 border patrol agents that have been authorized for years. I think they would love that mission and they would welcome that mission. Border security is national security.”
The Marion County Republican Women will next host Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann at 6 p.m. May 22 at Calvary Baptist Church.
Pictured Above: U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo addresses the Marion County Republican Women Tuesday night at Calvary Baptist Church. Palazzo said the mainstream media’s assault on President Donald Trump is nonstop. | Photo by Mark Rogers
