US Senator Dave McCormick (R-PA.) Touring University of Pennsylvania Marshak Dairy Barn on Kennett Square, Pennsylvania June 6, 2025 (John Cole/Capital-Star)
Kennnett Square-work visiting the only veterinary school in Pennsylvania, US senator Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) Talked to the capital star about the American house, barely passing the “large beautiful bill” and the upcoming merger of American Steel.
But he also praised the democratic efforts of the Mayor of Philadelphia Cherllelle Parker to combat addiction in the largest city.
“I was very impressed with what the mayor does,,” said McCormick about Parker’s initiative to deal with addiction, after visiting Marshak Dairy Barn in Chester, university of the University of Pennsylvania in Chester, the most external edge of the suburbs of Philly.
McCormick said he had met on Friday with a parker on a trip Riverview Wellness VillageThe North -Eastern Philadelphia abuse center, which aims to lend a hand people at the final stage of recovery.
According to Billy PenThe facility, which was opened in January, has 336 beds and provides a flat, healthcare, work counseling and other services for people who have completed a preliminary drug treatment program and moved to the next stage of recovery and can live there for one year. McCormick said they already have over 100 patients.
Described the campus of the Recovery Center, which is built in renovated buildings owned by the city and It covers about 19 acres Along the Delaware River, as “amazing”.
“It is an object that gives people dignity, respect and helps them in the next phase,” said McCormick. “This is a large project for the mayor.”
He said he talked to Parker Way, that he could be able to support the center and assign her the approach of the Police Commissioner in Philadelphia Kevin Bethel to addictive in the Kensington district in Philadelphia.
Kensington was at the head of the opioid crisis, paying attention to international attention Outdoor drug drug in recent years.
“You must part and disorder in Kensington,” said McCormick. “The mayor did it.”
During the successful offer of Parker at the 100th mayor of Philadelphia in 2023. The key purpose of her campaign was to deal with the issue of abuse of drugs and quality of life in the Kensington district. Parker said that she would end the drug market in the open air and stabilize the district throughout its entire offer for the office, Philadelphia Inquirer Reported.
“I think it has a great start,” he added. “But you can’t just treat … this problem is narrowly. You need to recover addiction, what this program is to support.”
McCormick calls “Big, Beautiful Bill” a good start
The USA house has passed narrow Budget reconciliation package On May 22, which President Donald Trump called “a large, beautiful bill.” The 1116-page Omnibus, connecting 11 bills and many political goals of Trump, is currently converted in the US Senate.
McCormick, Trump’s ally, described it as a “good start”, but said that he believed that the expenditure package requires more work.
Among the things that the account becomes appropriate, McCormick mentioned the constant renewal of the first timely reduction of Trump taxes and eliminating taxes on advice, social insurance and overtime. He applauded the increased financing by the border security account, the border patrol and national defense.
McCormick also emphasized the efforts in the packaging to “bend the curve with costs.”
“Some of these programs get out of control,” said McCormick. “Medicaid is the one who has all the controversy.”
“Medicaid will not reduce the expenditure. It slows down from 5% to 3% per year,” he said. “And he does it, removing people from the program, especially men working without people who live on, removes them from the program, [which] It has never been designed for them. “
Not partisan estimates of the budget office The version of the bill would lead to 10.9 million uninsured in 2034, out of 7.8 million people due to Medicaid changes and the rest due to changes in the Act on affordable price, according to factcheck.org.
McCormick said that the government must reduce expenses saying that the current expenditure rate is “not balanced”.
Some corrections he would like to see included a number of tax subsidies and tax breaks instead of immediate termination.
“I think they should be withdrawn in a way that is not too destructive for some investments in projects that have already been made,” said McCormick.
He also did the matter that the Senate should add a proposal that would add $ 10 billion for school coupons.
McCormick “very optimistic” in the USA and Nippon reach a contract on time
Last month, Trump won the news that a contract worth $ 14 billion between American Stal based in Pittsburgh and Japanese Stal Nippon is approaching the application after 18 months in the abyss.
The details of the connection remain secret, and the company’s officials rejected the comment. Bloomberg news On Thursday, he quoted sources close to conversations, which spoke on the condition of anonymity, because they are confidential, who said that the contract was on the right track to the date of June 18.
McCormick said he was “very optimistic” that the contract, for which Trump accepted the loanUltimately, it will benefit the Mononghel Pennsylvania valley in Pennsylvania, where American steel serves three plants.
“It is $ 14 billion in the national steel industry, $ 2.4 billion in the Valley of the Ministry of National Defense,” said McCormick on Friday. “It guarantees and protects 10,000 jobs in the Valley of the Ministry of National Defense, but also promises a new arc furnace, which will create 14,000 new workplaces in the oven.”
McCormick also advertised that in addition to the remaining from Pittsburgh, the US Steel will have a general director and majority management in the United States, while the government would control the nominations of “several key board members”. McCormick claims that it is “protecting the US’s interests.”
McCormick also admitted that Trump had previously “had real reservations” about the contract before making recent corrections, but said that the current agreement “supports working people” in this region.
“My first meeting with these steel workers was in Latrobe at a rally for the president and they are there. They wanted contract because it protects their maintenance measures,” said McCormick.
The international president of the USW David McCall said last week that the union still had concerns about the impact of the proposed connection on national security, its members and communities in which they work.
However, McCormick said he did not share these fears.
“I focus on steel employees in Pennsylvania – 4,000 of them in the valley of the Ministry of National Defense. Everyone is inside,” said McCormick. “You watch this breakup when President Trump came. Everyone workers go crazy.”
“It’s great for Pennsylvania. It’s great for the Valley of the Ministry of National Defense,” he added. “It is great for the production of domestic steel. It is great for national security. I feel very confident in it.”
