To the editor:

America needs determined Republican leadership at every level of Government to address the core threats to our very survival: Our disastrously open border, our weakened economy, crippling restrictions on American energy Production, our depleted military, attacks on the American system of justice, and much more.

To make clear our commitment, we offer to the American people the 2024 GOP platform to make America great again. It is a forward-looking agenda that begins with the following twenty promises that we will accomplish very quickly when we win the White House and Republican majorities in the House and Senate.

1. Seal the border, and stop the migrant invasion

2. Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history

3. End inflation, and make America affordable again

4. Make America the dominant energy producer in the world by far

5. Stop outsourcing, and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower

6. Large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips

7. Defend our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms

8. Prevent world war three, restore peace in Europe and in the Middle East, and build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country — all made in America

9. End the weaponization of government against the American people

10. Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders

11. Rebuild our cities, including Washington DC, making them safe, clean and beautiful again

12. Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world

13. Keep the U.S. dollar as the world’s currency

14. Fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age

15. Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly burdensome regulations

16. Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content to our children

17. Keep men out of women’s sports

18. Deport pro-Hamas radicals and make out colleges campuses safe and patriotic again

19. Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots , and proof of citizenship

20. Unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success

Roger Baumann

Wabasso