NEWS AND OPINION:
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise offers a tidy summary of what the nation — and the nation’s pocketbook — is facing in this day and age.
“We’ve got to get away from these big spending bills. It’s why we have inflation and the high cost of everything today — because the government went on a drunken spending spree for the last two years. You know, every bill was a trillion this and a trillion that, and ultimately, somebody’s got to pay for it,” the Louisiana Republican told Fox Business Network host Larry Kudlow on Wednesday.