Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News’ The Sunday Briefing to discuss President Trump fighting for lower costs for American families and Democrats’ hypocrisy on the Epstein files. Leader Scalise also highlighted House Republicans’ work to lower premiums for hardworking families.
 
Excerpts from Leader Scalise’s interview:

On President Trump’s historic leadership:

“President Trump has done phenomenal things to address the problems that he inherited when Joe Biden was president. We saw so many problems around the world. We had high inflation, high interest rates, high energy costs here at home. President Trump started day one to fix those problems. He's not going to slow down. I know he has disagreements, even with some of his friends along the way, but he's not going to be deterred. He is working tirelessly. You know it, you see him in the White House. He'll come from a trip overseas — I saw him the day after he came from the Middle East, signing historic peace agreements in the Middle East. And the next day is at the White House, continuing to do great things here at home. So this is a President that doesn't rest, doesn't stop fighting for the American people.”

On Democrats’ hypocrisy on the Epstein files:

“Well, it's a point of hypocrisy that we brought up many times, Peter. We actually brought a motion for unanimous consent the other day to bring up all the Epstein files. And guess who objected on the House floor? It was Democrats. And so, this idea that the Democrats want it, they hid the Epstein files for four years. In fact, some of the things you saw leak just the other day were things that we, House Republicans, got out through James Comer's Oversight Committee. We had the estate of Epstein finally subpoenaed, and we released a lot of that data. You know, one of the things it showed, Peter, was a Democrat member of Congress texting with Jeffrey Epstein during a congressional hearing, trying to get Epstein's advice for how to ask questions during a hearing. I don't hear the mainstream media talking about that. That just came out like two days ago. It's because of Republican oversight on those Epstein files that the Democrats sat on for four years.”

On Senate Democrats blocking House Republicans' efforts to lower premiums for hardworking families:

“Look, Dr. Oz touched on a lot of important things that we're working with the Trump Administration on. If you go back to, and Dr. Oz alluded to this, when we were moving the Working Families Tax Cut through Congress, we put a provision in that bill called cost-sharing reductions, which is, I'll translate it in English: It was scored to lower premiums for families, health care premiums by double digits, over 12%, lower premiums in health care. It passed the House. It was in the bill, passed the House, and it was Senate Democrats who fought to get that removed because Senate Democrats do not want premiums to go down. They want to force everybody into Obamacare. What was called, by the way, in law, the Affordable Care Act. Does anybody really think it's affordable? I mean, my gosh, it's been 80% higher premiums on families since they passed that law known as Obamacare. Then they try to mask it with hundreds of billions of dollars in bailouts, not to families, but to insurance companies, insurance companies that are seeing record profits. We should not be continuing to bail out insurance companies in Obamacare.

“We should give families better options to lower care by things like cost-sharing reductions, association health plans, which would work really well to have small businesses and their employees get more options to lower premiums, health savings accounts, Peter, are highly effective at lowering costs in health care. PBM reform, we passed that through the House, and it died in the Senate under Chuck Schumer. All of those are ideas that are on the table and more that we're bringing back, and we're discussing those. We discussed them during the shutdown. We're going to be bringing more legislation in the weeks ahead, all of them proven to lower premiums and give families more options to control their health care, not to force them into Obamacare at higher costs.”

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