Steve Scalise Accuses Dems Of 'Fighting Against The Will Of The American People' Ahead Of CR Vote

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At a House Republican press briefing on Tuesday, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) spoke about the state of the Democratic Party ahead of the CR vote.

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00:00Last week, all Americans who watched the State of the Union saw a very triumphant President

00:09Trump who's returned to the White House with even more energy, more vigor, and more

00:15focus to work for the American people than ever before, laying out in just six short

00:20weeks how much he's already done to fulfill the promises of the campaign, to deliver on

00:24the mandate that 77 million Americans came to the polls and said, we want to change the

00:31way Washington works.

00:33And they sent President Trump and J.D. Vance as the Vice President to go and accomplish

00:37those things.

00:38And in six short weeks, so many of those things have already been accomplished, or the work

00:44and the foundation has been laid to get that done.

00:47And what did we see from the Democrats?

00:50As Lisa McClain talked about, sitting down, not even celebrating a 13-year-old boy who

00:58just beat his battle with cancer and was made an honorary member of the Secret Service,

01:02one of the most touching moments I've seen in a lot of State of the Unions, and they

01:05couldn't even stand up for that.

01:08My friends, the Democrat Party of today is a leaderless, rudderless ship.

01:15They have no direction.

01:16They have no ideas.

01:17They have no concern about the successes of the American people.

01:21They can't applaud victories for the American people.

01:24They couldn't even applaud paying tribute to the widow of a woman whose husband, as

01:31a police officer, was slain in the line of duty.

01:34That's who the Democrat Party in Washington is.

01:38So many Americans who consider themselves Democrats have left that party because the

01:43Democrat Party has left them behind.

01:45A lot of those Democrats voted for Donald Trump and voted to put us in the majority,

01:49both in the House and Senate, because they're tired of the hatred and the anger that fuels

01:55today's Democrat Party.

01:57They want to see people that are going to go to work fighting for them.

02:00And that's what we're doing.

02:01Today is another example of the House doing its job.

02:05We have a responsibility to deliver for the American people, and we're going to do it

02:09with or without the Democrat Party.

02:12You know, a lot of Democrats brought, we all get to bring a guest to the State of the Union.

02:16A lot of them brought federal workers as their guests to the State of the Union.

02:22They seem to act like they care about federal workers.

02:25You saw a lot of Democrats over the last few weeks show up at federal buildings with some

02:31federal employees who haven't been able to find their federal headquarters to go to work

02:38for the last three years, using COVID as an excuse.

02:41But they showed up to protest, to rally against rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in government.

02:48But ironically, those same Democrats who claim to care about federal workers, today almost

02:54all of them will vote to furlough those federal workers that they claim to care about.

02:59How's that for showing appreciation for the people who work for this federal government?

03:05You know, and all of them have said quotes, and the Speaker's laid out a great video that

03:09lays out a lot of the quotes that Democrats have made over the years about shutting down government.

03:14Yet today, many of them will vote to shut down the government.

03:18And for what reason?

03:20As it's been pointed out, Hakeem Jeffries came out against the bill before the text

03:24was even filed.

03:27And still to this day, if you watched in Rules Committee last night, you heard lie after

03:30lie by Democrats who were saying things that aren't even in the bill.

03:35You know, maybe 99 pages is too long for some of them to read.

03:38We gave them the whole weekend to read the bill.

03:40They can still read it through today.

03:41The vote's going to be this afternoon.

03:43But they don't want to read the bill.

03:46They don't want to know what's really in the bill.

03:48They're just fueled by anger.

03:51Anger that Donald Trump won the election.

03:52Anger that 77 million people went to the polls and demanded a change in the way Washington

03:58works.

03:59Well, I've got a message for my Democrat friends out there.

04:02Whether you like it or not, the American people demanded change, and we're going to deliver

04:06that change for them with or without this wild, reckless, far-left, progressive Democrat

04:12party of today.

04:14They don't represent the American people.

04:16They're fighting against the will of the American people.

04:19But we, as the Republican majority, are going to deliver for those families who are struggling,

04:24who want relief, who want help, who want to get Washington off of their back and want

04:28lower costs.

04:29We're going to do that.

04:31We passed a bill over to the Senate.

04:32We're going to urge our Senate, once we finish this bill, the Senate's got to start

04:36moving on the House budget that we sent to them weeks ago.

04:40Everybody's got a job to do around here.

04:41We're going to do ours today.

04:43And the leader who's heading that effort up is our Speaker, Mike Johnson.

Steve Scalise Accuses Dems Of 'Fighting Against The Will Of The American People' Ahead Of CR Vote

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