Congressman Bill Huizenga Reacts to President Trump's Speech to Congress

We spoke with Representative Bill Huizenga on his reactions to the scene at President Trump's speech last night and what certain topics might mean for us in Michigan. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know how people will tell your kids are getting
taller and you don't really notice it because you see
them there every day. This is a weird question. Congressman
Bill heising with Michigan's fourth district, is on the line
with this. Congressman, thanks for doing this today.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Good to be with you. Are you going to ask
me how tall my kids have been?

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Now you have very tall children, because you're a tall
man yourself. But I mean, these things happen gradually. What
would the Congressman Heisinger that first got involved in politics
think about last night's joint address? It was it got
wild at times, and I mean gradually these sort of
things have happened. But people brought signs and got kicked out.

(00:39):
In my gosh, that was weird.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, look, and I've sat through six Barack Obama, for
Joe Biden, for Donald Trump previously, and it was always
far more cordial. I mean it appears quaint a number
of years ago when Joe Wilson uttered you lie at

(01:04):
a quiet moment in Barack Obama's speech and he was
castigated the pearl clutching, the you know, the how dare
we assault democracy this way? And then you look at
what happened last night. It was disgusting. And look, these

(01:25):
people couldn't even stand for the kid with cancer being
awarded the honorary Secret Service Agent and the kid that
gets the appointment to West Point and wants to serve
his country much less Lake and Riley act and Lake
and Riley's family who's there. And by the way, both
of our senators, Gary Peters and Alissa Slockein voted for

(01:47):
that in the Senate, and there was a whole bunch
of Democrats that voted for it in the House. And
yet they couldn't stand in applaud They couldn't acknowledge what
was going on. And the President was right, he said
just before that it doesn't matter. We could cure the
worst disease in the entire world, peace through it could
break out throughout the world, and they still would not

(02:08):
even acknowledge it because it's him. And that's just sad.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
So from what you heard last night and representing us
here in West Michigan, what resonated the most about what
will affect us the most moving forward in the next
four years?

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, the phrase I wrote down and starred on my
little notes was common sense has become a common theme,
and I think that's that that is accurate. You look
at his energy policy, he was talking about building pipelines
and power plants, having to declare a national energy emergency.
That that means we're going to be doing more exploration,

(02:46):
We're going to expand rare earth mining and those kinds
of things. Fighting flagrant waste of government dollars, of our
tax dollars. You know that that makes sense. Making sure
that you know, girls are playing girls sports, boys are
playing boys sports. That makes sense. Making sure that we
have equal economic footing with our trade partners, and if

(03:09):
we don't, starting April two, he's going to put in
reciprocal tariffs. That's common sense, you know. And what it's
doing is it's spurring some good things. One point seven
trillion dollars in new investment that's been pledged. Five hundred
billion from Oracle, five hundred billion from Apple, one hundred
and sixty five billion from Taiwan Semiconductor. That's that's not

(03:30):
just traditional manufacturing like we've seen coming out of pledges
out of Stulantis and Honda about bringing production back. That's
the new cutting edge of technology that's going to lead
us into the new age, and that's why again I
think really he was right. Common sense has become a
common theme for this administration. The question is are there

(03:51):
going to be anybody on the other side of the
aisle that's going to become an ally and fight for
the for our country or are they just going to
want to continue to send money to Ukraine and USA.
I D and do kinds of crazy stuff around the world.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
And as Congressman Bill Heisinger, we appreciate your time this morning.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Good to be with you guys. Talk to you soon.