Video: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss Russian interference in America’s elections. During the interview, Lankford said that he supports investigating Russian involvement in our election process.

Lankford confirmed that there is evidence of Russian political interference through campaign cyber-breaches and propaganda, as there is in other nations, but there is no evidence of Russian interference into the American vote-counting process or election result. Lankford serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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Scott Pruitt visits Donald Trump. Graphic: SkyNews

President-Elect Donald Trump has tapped Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be his Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, according to a source on Trump’s transition team and the screams of many rabid environmentalists. This is the second time that Pruitt has met with Trump in regard to the position.

Pruitt, Attorney General since 2010, has been a skeptic and staunch opponent to President Obama’s climate change agenda. Pruitt sued the EPA in 2015 on the grounds that the administration’s Clean Power Plan would force Oklahoma to expend substantial resources, compromise investment and tax revenue, and threaten the health and welfare of Oklahoma’s citizens by undermining electric reliability and affordability. This case is still pending.

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Video Included: The second edition of Oklahoma Senator James Lankford’s annual report of “Federal Fumbles” released Monday highlights how the Federal Government wastes tax money and the resulting growing deficit. Both sides of that same coin are stunning.

• The federal deficit for Fiscal Year 2016 was $587 billion, and overall debt is now $19.5 Trillion, according to the Treasury Department.
• The total federal debt of $19,573,444,713,936.79 now equals about $165,575 per household in America.

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Sen. James Lankford

One thing did not change on Tuesday, Nov. 8th – our unsustainable and exploding nearly $20 trillion national debt.

While America was focused on an unconventional presidential election season, the federal debt increased $587 billion in fiscal year 2016 alone. Last year, our federal government spent $223 billion, or 6 percent of all discretionary spending, just on debt interest payments. On our current track, we will spend more on debt interest than we do on our national defense within a few years.

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