Senator Marshall on Newsmax: America’s Future Is Bright

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas) joined Newsline on Newsmax today to discuss the meeting he and his Senate Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Caucus colleagues had with Elon Musk at the White House.

Senator Marshall also discussed his legislation to ban dangerous gain-of-function research, President Donald Trump’s recent executive order improving healthcare price transparency, and rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse within Medicaid. 

You may click HERE or on the image above to watch Senator Marshall’s full Newsmax interview.

Highlights from Senator Marshall’s interview include:

On the Senate DOGE Caucus’s meeting with Elon Musk:

“What an exciting day. I just left a meeting with Elon Musk, and he’s doing an incredible job over there. For the first time in years, I’ve got more hope in my heart. I’m bullish on America. We’re going to figure out a way to balance the budget. There’s so much waste, fraud, and abuse, and he’s doing a great job getting to the bottom of it, saving Americans’ [taxpayer dollars],I think it will be a trillion dollars when it’s all said and done.”

“Elon started out talking about was his compassion for federal employees, that those people who have a job that matters, that’s needed, that if they care, if they’re competent, we want to keep those people around. But meanwhile, there’s so much other fraud, waste, and abuse in there. For example, the Treasury Department issuing checks without people having to fill in what budget line item this was for, so that was ignored by USAID, amongst others as well.”

On Senate Marshall’s bill to ban gain-of-function research:

“This bill would ban any federal funding for viral gain-of-function research, no matter how Anthony Fauci wants to describe it. Remember, this viral gain-of-function [research] was Anthony Fauci’s pet project for over 20 years. We spent, I’m going to say, $20, $50 billion on this research, helping the Chinese. They ended up developing the COVID virus, which killed 10, 20 million people across the world.” 

“We’ve never seen any gain at all from this gain-of-function research. It’s never helped mankind. It’s way more dangerous than nuclear warheads are, so it’s time to just put an end to it. Every three or five years, we hear about a virus escaping from a laboratory, even in America. They’re very hard to contain, even in a biosecurity four-level lab, and we certainly don’t need to be teaching our enemies how to grow these viruses, which are perfect for terrorist weapons.”

On President Trump’s Executive Order on healthcare price transparency:

“So, transparency price tags, as I like to call them, is one of the pillars of driving down the cost of health care. In President Trump’s first term, we worked with him, requiring every hospital to list the prices on different procedures, maybe 20% of them were compliant with that. We want to make that situation much, much simpler, something that anyone could open up an app, get on the CMS website, and see what every hospital is charging.” 

“Let’s let Americans become consumers again, even in health care. So, transparency is the first pillar of making health care affordable again. At the end of the day, it’s going to help save money for Medicare and Medicaid and preserve those great programs.”

On waste, fraud, and abuse within Medicaid programs:

“There’s not a federal program out there that’s more broken than Medicaid is. We’ve increased the spending by 50% over the last five years without better outcomes to show for it. Look, we Republicans want to make sure that every American has access to meaningful health care. But Medicaid is not the answer.”

“I think the first answer is expanding community health centers… but you talk about an opportunity to Make America Healthy Again, to make a difference in people’s lives, it would be those people on Medicaid.” 

“We want to make sure that people get the health care that they need, but at the same time, we don’t want this money being used for waste, fraud, and abuse. Medicaid will be at a trillion dollars here in the next year or two for what we’re spending on it. That’s unsustainable.”