Scalise: Speaker Pelosi Tries to Hide Socialist Agenda from the American People
WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel's The Ingraham Angle to discuss House Democrats' ongoing shift towards the radical left as Speaker Pelosi embraces defunding the police and a federal takeover of elections. Whip Scalise blasted Democrats for ramming their socialist agenda through the House of Representatives in the dark of night to try and hide what they're doing from the American people.
On House Democrats ramming their socialist agenda through the House in the middle of the night:
"I think what you're seeing is this movement over these last few weeks to try to paint every Trump supporter, every Republican as a threat to America. And frankly, if you look at why they did some of these things, where they compressed votes yesterday, to not be voting today – I was at the Capitol all day today. It was very quiet. We were supposed to be voting. But during the daytime, we would have been voting today on a bill that Speaker Pelosi brought that would have gotten rid of qualified immunity, which is another method of defunding police. They brought that bill not today during the day. They brought it at eleven o'clock last night.
"Last week, when they brought their $1.9 trillion spending bill which included the $140 million subway to Silicon Valley for Nancy Pelosi and a bailout of failed states so that Cuomo can get more money and Gavin Newsom can get more money. They didn't bring that bill during the day. They brought it at two o'clock in the morning, on Friday night, Saturday morning, when no one was watching. They don't want people seeing what they're doing. That's what this is about.
"And look, as Candace said earlier, they're taking down the border wall at the southern border where there's actual super spreader caravans coming across the border – over 100 COVID positive people across the border into Texas just the other day. President Biden's ok with that, taking down the wall, and then they put up the wall at the Capitol so that people can't see what they're doing at dark of night passing the socialist agenda."
On House Democrats' ongoing shift towards the radical left:
"Look, who knows where they're going with all of this. What I'm concerned about are the bills that Nancy Pelosi is bringing up on the House Floor that are passing to take away abilities for police officers to do their job safely. They brought a bill out again last night, dark of night, after 10:30 at night, that bans states from showing a picture ID to vote. You've got to show a picture ID to buy a six pack of beer, but to vote, they're banning you from doing that. They mandated same day voter registration, all of the voter fraud initiatives that have undermined voter confidence in so many states. They're trying to make that the standard. That passed last night at dark of night. Hopefully it won't pass the Senate. But it's an example of what they're bringing. That's what I'm concerned about – those socialist policies that are passing the House of Representatives right now."