Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) appeared on Fox Business Network's Mornings with Maria to discuss cutting costs for hardworking families through lower premiums, historic tax cuts, permitting reform, and President Trump’s America First agenda. Despite House Democrats' failed efforts to stop Republicans' work, Leader Scalise emphasized that House Republicans will continue delivering for the American people.
 
Highlights from Leader Scalise’s interview:

On Democrats shutting the government down to try to stop President Trump’s historic agenda:

“Look, I think Democrats today wake up with the socialist left taking over their party, the Mamdani wing of the party, and they want to shut the government down every day. They want to fight Donald Trump every day and try to block anything we're doing to move this country forward. I think the American people are sick of it. Look, most Americans just want to go about their daily lives. They want gas prices to go down, as President Trump talked about last night. They want their wages to go up, Maria, as President Trump also talked about last night. Democrats here in Washington have been voting against every one of those policies to do those things. We pass bills to lower gas prices. Every Democrat voted no. We pass bills to prevent the largest tax increase on American families, including low-income families. Every Democrat voted no. They've proven they want to shut the government down, and they want to raise taxes and costs on hardworking families, including low-income families. We're going to keep doing our work for the American people. Sometimes we'll get bipartisan votes, even if we don't, we're going to keep passing these bills, Maria, because we need to keep working with President Trump to deliver on the promises we made and turn this great country around.”

On House Republicans fixing the health care system that Democrats broke:

“You've just seen the radical left, look Ro Khanna said it proudly. He voted to shut the government down. He wants all Americans on government-run health care. It's, by the way, failed in every country it's been tried. Maria, does everybody in America want to be on Medicaid? That's what Democrats are doing. Look at the Affordable Care Act. They've shoveled hundreds of billions of dollars to insurance companies, and yet the price is still unaffordable. They called it the Affordable Care Act. That was a lie. They said, 'If you like your doctor, you can keep it.' That was a lie. They promised insurance prices would go down $2,500 a family. That was a lie. Everything they said about health care was a lie. Are they really going to be the ones to fix it? We want to lower health care costs for 100% of Americans. That's what we brought yesterday. Democrats have voted time and time again to raise health care costs on 95% of Americans, and they voted against the bill yesterday that would lower costs. Everybody in America could see who wants to lower your health care premiums — it's Republicans — and who's voted to raise those premiums and bail out insurance companies who are getting record profits. It's bizarre.”

On Republicans working to lower costs after years of Bidenflation:

“We need to keep pushing policies that are going to lower costs. But as you see, Democrats are voting to raise costs, to make things unaffordable. People went through the 40-year high on inflation under the Biden years. Biden jacked up inflation. Costs are high. We're bringing them down, but they're not down enough. We want to keep doing that. President Trump talked about it last night. We've made progress. It's not as much as we want to make. I'd like it if Democrats would vote with us every blue moon to lower costs, but we're going to keep doing it. We need to keep lowering costs, making things more affordable, getting the economy moving, and increasing wages for families. We're going to be doing that early in the new year.”

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