Republican congressional candidate Marty O’Donnell says 10 to 15 percent of the federal government could easily be cut without any impact on the American people.
O’Donnell, who has spent most of his career composing music, is running for Congress in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District. The musician spent years making jingles (Mr. Clean, Flintstones Chewable Vitamins) before composing the highly recognizable soundtracks for the hit video game series Halo and Destiny.
The Halo series alone has sold over 81 million copies. deadline.
O’Donnell, who ran as a Republican candidate, saw the turmoil in the country and decided to give up retirement.
“I’ve never wanted to be in politics. … Other than what I used to say to my daughters, ‘All those idiots in Congress think that their careers are theirs and that they should be there forever,’ I’ve never really thought about it.”
“I’ve said before that it should be a parliamentary duty, but at this stage in my life I felt called to show by my actions, not just my words, and see if I agreed to do my parliamentary duty, so I did,” he told The Blaze News exclusively.
O’Donnell platform He boasts that he is a “champion of the middle class” who embodies traditional values.
His campaign argues that people should “follow the science” to give children the best possible start in life.
By that, O’Donnell means she supports the idea of ”two-parent” families.
“Values are what everything is founded on: honesty, trust, loyalty, courage. These are not just American values, they shouldn’t be called family values. These are human values,” he explained. “When people lose these values, society begins to fall apart, and I think we’re seeing that.”
“Cutting the federal budget by 10 to 15 percent shouldn’t hurt anything.”
When asked about traditional family values and how the opposite seems to be taught in schools through gender ideology, O’Donnell said she doesn’t want any laws regulating school curriculum to be made through the federal government.
“I’m a federalist. The federal government should stay out of this 100 percent. I’m in favor of abolishing the Department of Education,” O’Donnell said. He noted that such decisions should be made by parents and local governments in the communities they serve. At the same time, O’Donnell does not support the idea of teaching radical gender ideology to children.
But he agrees that the federal government as a whole needs to be downsized and that its current form is flawed.
“The system is rigged and we have no choice but to expand,” O’Donnell said. “The federal government is too big, too intrusive, too regulated, and too high-taxed.”
“All of this needs to go in the opposite direction. That’s not what the Founding Fathers intended.”
The Nevada candidate said the government is incentivized to spend all its budget and not let people save money.
“It’s insanity. Absolute insanity,” he added.
O’Donnell also estimated that much of the federal government could be abolished without any cost to American taxpayers.
“Cutting the federal budget by 10 to 15 percent shouldn’t hurt anything.”
When it comes to border security, O’Donnell said simply enforcing existing laws would be a big step in the right direction, and furthermore, reinstating policies put in place by Trump, such as “Remain in Mexico,” would be a departure from policies put in place by President Biden.
The 69-year-old’s official line is that the border is a “fiasco” and that millions of people are coming across it without explaining “who they are, what they’re going to do, what or who they’re bringing with them.”
O’Donnell said increased border security is also needed, including building border wall in appropriate places, increased drone surveillance and other high-tech border security.
Clarification of the law surrounding asylum applications was also paramount to the Nevada candidate, who said the entire process has been “malicious.”
This involves an organisation that “teaches people all over the world how to apply for refugee status”, he claimed.
O’Donnell will face Democrat Susie Lee, who has served in the House since 2018. The seat was held by a Republican from 2010 to 2016.
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