Fox Business - What real Americans in the heartland are saying about the Trump economy

Op-Ed

By Sen. Mike Braun

I've been on a 50-city Solutions Tour across Indiana over the past two weeks, and the one message that I heard from job creators across my state is that they have never seen a better climate for job growth, bigger paychecks and for companies to reinvest in themselves.

We can thank President Trump's economic policies.

For example, during a tour of a national food and beverage company, one of the executives pulled me aside to say that the unemployment rate -- which is 3.7 percent in America and 3.3 percent in Indiana -- is so low that it's hard to find talented, skilled workers to fill the open positions. This is a great problem to have.

I shared with him that in my business, a logistics company, we shared the benefits of President Trump's tax cuts with our employees through bonuses, lowering health-care costs, reinvesting in the company and hiring additional employees.

Later that week while touring a manufacturing facility, one of the employees told me how grateful he was that President Trump kept his promise to cut burdensome red tape and eliminate unnecessary regulations.

As the 24-hour news cycle remains focused on the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates trying to decide who can be more socialist than Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, real Americans in the heartland are thrilled President Trump kept his economic promises.

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