Scalise Previews House GOP’s September Agenda

JEFFERSON, La.-Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox Business Network's The Bottom Line to discuss House Republicans' agenda to counter Chinese aggression. Additionally, Leader Scalise highlighted how the Democrats' Inflation Act - which passed in a tiebreaking vote by Kamala Harris - has failed middle-class families and driven up prices to record levels.

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On the Biden-Harris administration's inflation-causing bill:

"Yeah, Sean, Dagen, great to be with you. And look, if that bill was a bill of yours that had passed and done so much damage to the middle class and the American people, you'd want to forget the name of it, too, like Joe Biden is trying to. But you can't change the name. We all know what it was. And in fact, Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote to pass that bill. And that was the bill, Inflation Reduction Act, over a trillion dollars, not 350 billion. The math actually matters here. Over a trillion dollars of money we didn't have. And that started driving the inflation that's killing the middle class today, that's raising your costs at the grocery store, at the gas station, everywhere else. And so they passed it. It's failed. Now they're trying to repackage it, rename it.

"It's kind of like when they say Kamala wasn't the border czar because she's done such a horrible job with the border. She's trying to change her positions on every issue because she's wrong on every issue. The American people aren't buying it. And so this is ultimately, you're going to see a lot of this at the debate next week, I think, with President Trump, when he's able to confront her on a lot of these misnomers, lies, whatever you want to call them. But people know what these bills have done to them. It has gutted the middle class."

On House Republicans' plans to stop inflation:

"It's billions, tens if not hundreds of billions. And we're looking at every dime because that's something that we want to claw back. By the way, if you claw that back, that will help lower inflation. That's one of the many things we will do to get inflation under control, to get our economy back on track very quickly in the first 100 days if we elect President Trump and then get a Republican House and Senate."

On House Republicans taking action against China:

"You know, the closer we get to the election, it's interesting, when you see a lot of these races that are tightening up. All of a sudden, you're seeing Democrats try to start talking like Republicans. Nobody's buying it again because they don't believe it because it's not true. But let them -- give them the opportunity. I mean, look, the EVs. $7,500 to buy EVs as Kamala and others want to mandate that. Most Americans don't want EVs. They're not even buying them. And yet we're spending tens of billions of dollars on that mandate. We should get rid of it.

"China buying up our farmland. We're hearing this is a major problem all over the country. Some states have actually passed state laws to prohibit it. We're going to have a federal prohibition on the CCP buying up our farmland. There's a number of other things, the Confucius Institutes, where CCPs get involved in our higher ed institutes. That's one of the many reasons why higher ed is in such disarray right now. We're prohibiting that as well. There's a lot of really good bills. It's going to be a really important debate. I want to see how everybody votes."

On enthusiasm across the country for Republicans:

"I just got back from a big swing on the West Coast, where we have a number of seats in states like California. You go to the East Coast in states like New York, and then obviously the swing states, Pennsylvania, Michigan, others, where we have a lot of opportunities to flip seats from Democrat to Republican. And so I was on the road helping our incumbents who are in these battleground races, as well as the seats we have a chance to flip. There's two seats we have a real chance to flip just in the state of California, to flip from Democrat to Republican. If you sit back home and you just read a lot of the fake news, you probably get depressed. If you actually go out there on the ground, there's huge enthusiasm for Republicans growing the majority and for Donald Trump becoming our next President."