Steve Scalise on Fighting Biden's Failed Policies and Government Waste

Legislative Agenda and Budget Reconciliation

• 🏛️ The House is working through its legislative agenda while urging the Senate to move on budget reconciliation, building on a budget sent weeks ago.
• 🎯 The House conference developed a budget target directing 11 committees to take action in reconciliation, a process the Senate must also navigate.
• 🤝 The ultimate goal is for the House and Senate to come together to deliver a package for President Trump to get the economy back on track.

Economic Struggles and Policy Impact

• 📉 Scalise argues that President Biden's far-left policies have led to trillions in spending, resulting in inflation and high interest rates that are crushing families.
• ✅ While progress is being made, it's only been two months, and there's still much work to do to address these issues.

Judicial and Election Integrity

• ⚖️ The House is taking up the No Rogue Judges Act to address district court judges who allegedly overstep their boundaries by trying to stop the President's agenda.
• 🗳️ Legislation will also be brought forward to fight for the integrity of the vote, preventing illegal immigrants from registering and voting and establishing safeguards.

Combating Government Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

• 🔎 A key focus of reconciliation is to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending, particularly mandatory spending.
• 💡 The Doge Commission, with leaders like Elon Musk, is working to identify billions of dollars in wasteful programs, inefficiencies, fraud, abuse, and corruption across federal agencies.
• 💰 Every dollar of waste represents deficit spending that could be reinvested to make programs work as intended.
• ⚠️ Scalise notes the personal attacks and death threats against Elon Musk for his work on the Doge Commission, highlighting the significant amount of waste being uncovered.
• 🎯 The goal is to enact real savings for taxpayers by rooting out waste and potentially including it in budget reconciliation or a rescissions package.