ISSUES

American Decline Was a Choice

In many of our biggest cities, even right here in New Jersey, drive around and you’ll see homeless encampments and trash strewn everywhere. Crime has skyrocketed, and even many successful families find it harder to get ahead. Every day, we read about a new assault on our country: from the Chinese who are stealing from American industry, to our own “leaders” who teach our kids to hate their own country. Why is this happening? For a simple reason: our leaders have failed.

They chose to flood our country with criminals and drugs. They chose to take a knee as radicals ransacked our cities and made our communities less safe. They chose to make a quick buck by selling our industrial base to China. They chose censorship over the First Amendment.

Our parents and grandparents gave us the most prosperous nation in the world, and our leaders have chosen decline and plunder. But under our Constitution, We the People have the power, and it’s time we use it to fight back.

SPENDING AND INFLATION

The Biden administration has spent billions and billions of dollars on things we don’t need. Why do we need a “transportation equity” agency to ensure that we don’t have too many male truck drivers? Why are we spending billions on battery technologies that are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and built by Chinese workers? The result of needless spending is runaway inflation, which has made it more difficult for hard working Americans to afford basic necessities. Inflation has been especially hard on our seniors, many of whom live on a fixed income. It’s time to get this inflation under control.

ADVOCATE FOR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

It’s time for our nation’s leaders to recognize and implement policies that properly support the ample natural energy we can harness and produce right here at home. There is no reason for us to be buying foreign oil at insane prices and continue straining families financially just to fill up their tanks.

We need common-sense energy policies that put the American consumer first, so that our country can become energy independent.

RESTORE AMERICA’S MANUFACTURING BASE

Our country used to value working class jobs, and then the manufacturing base of our economy was shipped overseas. Working class New Jerseyans were left in the dust. Job loss devastated families. Communities were forgotten. I’ll fight against the corporate elites who want to continue the status quo that plunders from the millions who are unable to use their hands to earn a decent wage.

In his first term, President Trump scrapped terrible trade deals and renegotiated them, imposing punitive tariffs on companies that manufacture in China and other nations. These were the right policies, and the effort to rebuild our industrial base is only beginning.

SOLVE the SOUTHERN BORDER CRISIS

Unchecked, illegal immigrants are entering our country at record rates. Joe Biden’s do-nothing policies give millions of aliens a free pass to break our laws, traffic drugs into our communities, contribute to rising crime and take jobs away from hardworking Americans. Biden’s policies have created a crisis out of thin air, after four years of President Trump’s successful efforts to get our border under control. As New Jersey’s next senator, I will oppose every attempt by the Democrats to grant amnesty, so that our communities are safe places to live and work and raise a family. I’ll also work to finish construction of a border wall and double the number of border agents in our country. Border security is not rocket science — we simply need the political will and the resources to do it.

We also must reform our legal immigration system. In no other developed country do we allow migration primarily based on family relations rather than skills. Millions of people want to come here, and we should only allow them if they contribute something meaningful to our country. Importantly, our ability to assimilate immigrants successfully — something our country should be proud of — is contingent on American leadership that loves this country. Forty years ago, new American immigrants came to a country where bipartisan leaders delivered a simple message: this great country is now your own, and you have a duty to help build it. Today, those same leaders deliver a different message: this is an evil and racist country, and you owe nothing to it. Because of this, our capacity to assimilate the next generation of immigrants is limited, and our legal immigration system should account for this fact by changing who we let in and reducing the total numbers.

COMBAT the DRUG AND OPIOID EPIDEMIC

Opioid addiction has devastated families and communities across New Jersey. More and more of our fellow citizens are falling victim to addiction, which means an entire generation of children orphaned, and another generation of grandparents forced to step up for our community’s kids. Communities are on the decline as job loss and poverty further engulf them. I’ll work to tackle the drug epidemic, eliminate the drugs coming into our communities, and help those devastated by addiction. America is a country of second chances, and we need to ensure more second chances for New Jerseyans from all walks of life.

DISMANTLE the BIG TECH OLIGARCHY

The tech industry promised all of us better lives and faster communication; instead, it steals our private information, sells it to the Chinese, and then censors conservatives and others for daring to have a contrary opinion.

The solution is simple: we need to break up the big tech companies, to reduce their power in our economy and our politics. We also need to ban the theft of our personal information. If they want our data, it’s time they paid for it.

A FOREIGN POLICY THAT PUTS AMERICA FIRST

For two decades, global elites have played a trick on normal Americans: send your sons and daughters to die for nation-building wars in some far-flung corner of the world, and when their utopian fantasies fail, accept millions of refugees into middle- and working-class neighborhoods. This is a bad deal for Americans, a bad deal for our troops, a bad deal for the refugees, but a good deal for the elites who profit from endless war.

Importantly, American political leaders should stop using America’s military as a social justice side project. Our troops don’t need to focus on diversity or equity or any other progressive buzzword; they need to focus on fighting and winning America’s wars.

DEFEND AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESSES

Now more than ever, our economy favors foreign companies that vocally oppose American values. Why do Apple and Coca Cola feel the need to threaten states that pass election integrity measures? And why does our economic policy reward them more than local businesses? Our family-owned, American-made businesses are doomed if this trend continues. Did you know that Google, a massive technology company that actively works with the Chinese Communist Party, pays a lower tax rate than many New Jersey manufacturers who struggle desperately to never do business with the Chinese? At the same time, some of our biggest companies funded Black Lives Matter riots that destroyed towns and cities across the United States. I’m done with an economy that favors anti-American multinationals over pro-American local businesses.

My fellow Republicans love to talk about tax cuts. By all means, let’s cut the taxes of the companies that invest in our country. But we’re going to raise taxes on companies that ship jobs overseas and use their profits to fund anti-American radical movements. If these companies are going to wage war on America, it’s time America wages war on them.

COVID-19 AND SCHOOLS

As we saw from the radical Left’s culture war waged during COVID-19 and the continued CRT indoctrination in our kids’ schools, it’s clear that we should never let politics drive public health decisions and deprive our kids of a good education. Luckily, New Jersey appears to have moved past this, but there are still those who propose to mask 3-year-olds at preschools and shut down in-person learning. We can’t go back.

Support for Israel

America should never waver in supporting our most important ally as they seek permanent peace and security, including eradicating Hamas terrorists from Gaza permanently, and our leaders should tolerate or encourage ant-Semitism of any kind, especially from U.S. Visa holders on our college campuses.

The U.S.-Israel alliance is mutually beneficial and co-equal – a strong and secure Israel promotes regional stability which safeguards U.S. interests. We should continue to strengthen our alliance with Israel with common-sense policies such as recognizing and affirming Israel’s right to exist as a sovereign nation, properly identifying terrorist groups that target Israel, and cutting off funding to organizations that collaborate with anti-Israel terrorists.

ANTI-SEMITISM

We should adopt, as a matter of official policy, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of ant-Semitism, and recognize that Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) is an anti-Semitic hate movement. Congress should also hold campus administrators responsible for enforcing codes of conduct equally. If it’s “hate speech” when directed against Blacks or LGBTQ individuals, then it’s hate speech when directed against Jews.

IRAN

I strongly oppose the Iran nuclear deal, and strongly support sanctions against the totalitarian regime in Tehran. The U.S. should be using every tool at its disposal to expose and thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and work with allies such as Israel when it is advantageous to do so. We should hold Tehran directly responsible for attacks on American troops by proxy groups that we know are supported financially and logistically by Iran.