[PJ] NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. ‐ Joe Wurzelbacher, best known as "Joe the Plumber" after questioning then-Sen. Barack Obama on camera during a 2008 campaign stop, said he will view President Trump’s presidency as a win if he follows through on his promises in three main areas.
"Since 2008, I’ve really focused on state’s rights and Second Amendment issues, and so I go on Fox and go on a lot of different places, but I talk mostly about those things because that’s really where the power is supposed to be ‐ with the states. The federal government has essentially three jobs and I think President Trump is going to be able to do that ‐ one, create a good environment for business, two, secure American borders and three, make our military strong," Wurzelbacher told PJM during an interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend.
"As long as he does those three things, I’ll see it as a win. All those social issues and everything else gets pushed back to the state level because there’s no reason a centralized federal government should be passing laws for the rest of the land; that’s where the states comes in," he added. Wurzelbacher said he is most concerned about the effect of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules and regulations on small businesses. |