Rep. Scalise: ‘America Needs to Get Its Fiscal House in Order, We Start To Do that in [the Big Beautiful] Bill’

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SCALISE: "And, you know, last night, Budget Committee was another big step getting the bill through. And we were having conversations, Speaker Johnson and myself, with some of the members that still have some questions that were on the Budget Committee. We had that conversation yesterday for a long time, but then we got the bill through. And now we've still, this week, got a number of other meetings we're going to have to have with different ends of our conference, you know, everybody from the moderates to the ultraconservatives, and everybody in between, because there's so many important parts of this bill. You think about it, it's tax policy, making sure nobody gets a tax increase, border policy, giving President Trump the tools he needs to secure the border, energy policy, making sure that we can produce more energy in America, food stamps, looking at the debt ceiling so that we can address and not have a debt crisis, dealing with mandatory spending. As you point out, this bond downgrade is another serious blow that shows that America needs to get its fiscal house in order. We start to do that in this bill.”