Scalise: Nothing Strong About Denying Food to Low-Income Americans
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), and Republican Governance Group Vice Chairman Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) to discuss Democrats bragging about holding Americans hostage as low-income families can’t put food on the table. Leader Scalise highlighted other Democrats walking away as their party embraces socialism.
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Excerpts from Leader Scalise’s remarks:
On Marxism's threat to the freedoms of the United States:
“When you hear stories like [Rep. Gimenez's], sad stories, the start, the root of it, having to flee your home country because Cuba fell to Marxism, to communism. But luckily for people like Carlos, all around the world, there's one place that they can look to if they want a North Star. If they still believe in freedom, they yearn for that desire, and then it fails in their home country, they can look to the United States because the United States represents freedom all around the world. And how dangerous of a position that is when Marxists from within try to change it here, try to unravel what makes America so great. And as Carlos came to seek that freedom that millions of others have as well, like my great-grandparents who came from Italy, to seek that same freedom. Ronald Reagan said it best, 'Freedom is only one generation away from extinction if we don't fight to defend it.' Those words of Reagan still ring true today because Carlos, we will continue to fight for freedom.
“It's not an empty fight. There are people on the other side here in America that are pushing back, that want to destroy that capitalist free market system. And so when you look at the results of the election, anybody that wants to go celebrate a blue state voting blue, what they're not acknowledging is what happened in a city like New York. It reverberates when New York elects a Marxist as their mayor.”
On the Democrat party embracing the radical left:
“There are other Democrats that are now looking and saying, does the Democrat Party represent me anymore? And today you heard it again. Democrats are the ones who are looking and saying that they're done with the Democrat Party. Jared Golden yesterday announced he's not going to run again. And he didn't just say he wasn't going to run again because he got tired of serving in Congress. I think it's really important to pay attention to what Jared Golden said, and he is in a swing district. Jared Golden is one of those moderate Democrats who represents maybe the old Democrat Party now, what was discarded by the voters in Democrat cities and states. But it's not where America is. So when Jared Golden announced yesterday he's not going to run again, he said, ‘We're allowing the most extreme, pugilistic element of our party to call the shots. Just look again at the shutdown. For as long as I can remember, we have opposed shutting down the government over policy disputes. We criticized Republicans for taking hostages this way.’ That was Jared Golden explaining why he's done with being a Democrat in Congress.
“When the Democrat Party no longer stands for common sense, for members that do on occasion reach across the aisle, they're going to be relegated to a scrap heap of history because America is not a socialist nation. While the Democrat Party has turned their leadership structure over to a socialist, it's not where America is. If they're running people like Jared Golden out of their party, they can go celebrate the results of last night's election... So let them go celebrate New Jersey electing a Democrat governor, New York City electing a Democrat. The real concern is that the Cuomo wing of the Democrat Party got destroyed by the Mamdani wing of the Democrat Party. And if they want to call that a victory, good luck.”
On Democrats bragging about using American families for leverage:
“While Democrats keep the government shut down, and they brag about it, you heard Senator Murphy yesterday, ‘I think we're in an enormously strong position right now.’ Strong position? What's so strong about taking food out of the mouths of 42 [million] American families? What is strong about that, Senator? Sure, you can vote again today to keep the government shut down, but there's nothing strong about denying food to people who are low-income and who can't afford it. That's a weak place to be. But that's what they're bragging about.
“When, as we saw, the Transportation Secretary yesterday said, 10% of flights are going to have to be cut back because we don't have enough air traffic controllers, because Democrats chose not to pay them. People are getting ready to go travel to see their family, hopefully for Thanksgiving. But they're not going to be able to get that flight. They're going to have to leave a day or two earlier, drive, maybe they won't be able to fly. But don't worry, some Democrat senator thinks he's in a stronger position because he's now leveraged Americans as pawns in some game. That's what they think this is. It's disgusting.”