Sen.-elect Jim Banks (R-Ind.) advocated for presidency reforms favoring working-class Individuals in a Wednesday coverage doc outlining his method to enhancing the nation’s economic system and international standing.
“Nobody has suffered more because of bad trade and economic policymaking than America’s working and middle classes,” Banks, who’s ending his fourth time period within the Home, wrote in his proposal.
“Our policies should focus on doing right by them, especially those working in manufacturing, the trades, and other skilled fields that don’t require a four-year degree. Republicans must not take their vote for granted.”
Banks received his first Senate marketing campaign final month. He has pushed for the Republican Get together to develop into the occasion of working- and middle-class Individuals, because the son of a manufacturing unit employee and a nurse. He was the primary in his household to go to school, which he has stated distanced him from self-funded politicians.
“I grew up in a trailer park. That’s where I came from. And what’s incredible about that, is that working-class background is the same background as most people from Indiana,” Banks advised Politico after launching his marketing campaign.
“I come from a place where I can represent the people who elected me to serve them and I think that’s a powerful asset to take to the Senate.”
He grew in reputation following the discharge of an in depth memo in 2021 that provided options to the Republican Get together on points like immigration, commerce and opposing “wokeness.”
Banks’s new doc unveils his method to fixing residents’ monetary crises by boosting industries via apprenticeships and technical coaching to bolster defense-based manufacturing.
“We need to restore our capacity to make ships, munitions, and other materiel in America,” the incoming senator wrote.
“By boosting innovation and supporting sectors with high growth potential, we will secure America’s position at the forefront of global manufacturing.”
Banks, a robust supporter of secretary of Protection nominee Pete Hegseth, argued that the nation has regressed attributable to “wokeness,” which he referenced as a “poison” in army sectors stopping the armed forces from advancing.
“As federal policymakers have allowed the defense-industrial base to wither, so too has the Department of Defense prioritized trendy progressive politics over the lethality and wellbeing of American service-members,” Banks, a former service member, acknowledged.
“Over the last four years, our top military brass has been more focused on DEI than it has recruitment, leaving us understaffed and unprepared to counter adversaries like China and Iran. We need to immediately remove divisive, leftwing politics from the Pentagon and refocus on merit, so we can return to identifying and rewarding excellence across the U.S. Armed Forces.”
He stated the GOP has an opportunity to solidify a profitable economic system beneath President-elect Trump.
“We must build on President Trump’s leadership on tariffs and trade remedies, take bold steps to protect our industries from predatory practices, strengthen U.S. manufacturing, and expand the export of American-made goods and commodities,” he wrote.
“We will level the playing field, giving our workers and businesses a fair shot to succeed.”