WASHINGTON – Today on Fox Business’ Mornings with Maria, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) discussed his priorities for the reconciliation package, including cutting government spending, extending the Trump Tax Cuts, and leading the charge to reimburse the State of Texas for border security costs incurred during the Biden administration. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn’s remarks are below, and video can be found here.

“We’ve got a lot to do in this one big, beautiful bill, but this is our one chance to get not only an extension of the expiring tax provisions, but to cut some of the mandatory spending programs that have driven our debt to $37 trillion and to do other things like the President’s priorities that he campaigned on.”

“It’s important that Texas get reimbursed for what was and is a federal responsibility, which is to secure the border—which didn’t happen during the Biden administration, so Governor Abbott and Texas leaders had to step up and fill that gap.”

“We’re working with the President, the Speaker, and Senator Thune to get this done.”

“If we were to fail—and we cannot fail—that would be a multitrillion-dollar tax increase on the American people, on top of 40-year high inflation as a result of the incredible spending spree that the Biden administration went on.”

“Democrats are not going to help us at all. For some reason, they think a multitrillion-dollar tax increase is a good idea, but of course, they’re the party of bigger government.”

“We want to cut the government. We want to cut federal spending. We want to bring down inflation, which was exacerbated by the spending spree that we saw the last four years.”