It’s “appropriate” that the Trump administration is moving as quickly as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt did with the New Deal in the 1930s, because he is “scaling back” the damages those Depression-era policies started and building for the future, Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, told Newsmax Wednesday.
“It’s appropriate that the president is upending the status quo,” Roberts said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “He’s put on notice any American, whether they’re a judge or a member of Congress, who would prioritize illegal felons, illegal aliens who are felons over innocent families, who would prioritize people who want men playing in women’s sports rather than what’s normal and biological. In essence, what he’s doing is, he said in his inaugural, is reinstituting common sense.”
And, as the United States needs “a lot more of that in politics and policy,” the Heritage Foundation “could not be more optimistic about the foundation that’s been laid in the first 100 days” of President Donald Trump’s return to office, said Roberts.
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