Scalise Outlines House Republican Plan to Fight for Hard-Working Families

WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel's Hannity to discuss House Republicans' plan to continue fighting for conservative values and battling against Democrats' shift to the socialist left. Whip Scalise outlined Republicans' plans to confront the challenges faced by the COVID-19 crisis and highlighted the success we're already seeing from President Trump's Operation Warp Speed.

On House Republicans' plan to fight for hard-working families:

"The thing that matters most to me and my Republican colleagues is fighting for those small businesses, those hard-working families that have been left behind that are struggling right now. Because a lot of these states, mostly led by Democrats, are shutting everything down. And, you know, states like Florida where they're opening things up and Texas are doing well. States like New York and California where they're shutting everything down are doing really really poorly and businesses are floundering. People, by the way, are dying from non-COVID related things. They're not getting their mammograms and colonoscopies, kids that are not being allowed to go back to school are being denied their educational future. So, we're going to be fighting for all of those people that are being left behind."

On the success of Operation Warp Speed:

"Look, you've got this vaccine. You saw the great report today that because of President Trump's leadership with Operation Warp Speed there's now a contract with United Airlines to distribute the vaccine all throughout the United States. I mean, this is a military effort with the smartest minds from the FDA, from the greatest drug companies in the world like Pfizer, Moderna, so many others. I mean, we're seeing President Trump's policies work for families."

On the rejection of Democrats' shift to the socialist left:

"What we're not seeing is Speaker Pelosi care about those families and that's why she was rejected at the polls because of wanting to defund the police, wanting to raise taxes, literally pushing a pro-abortion agenda when we were trying to fight for the unborn, including babies born alive outside of the womb that the Democrats still wanted to allow to die. I mean, these were the radical socialist agenda items that Pelosi fought for. We're going to be fighting for those hard-working families."