Steve Scalise: “In America. This is all in America. Families that we represent are facing the burden of all of these policies that…”

“In America. This is all in America. Families that we represent are facing the burden of all of these policies that started in Washington that are ultimately ending up taking money out of their pockets. When you go to the grocery store--if you can afford to get there--if you find the food on the shelves, it is 13\1/2\ percent higher. We have seen the list, whether it is eggs, dairy products, bacon, some of them are 30 percent higher individually, but it adds up to about 13\1/2\ percent more that you are paying at the grocery store. Mortgage rates. If somebody is trying to become a first-time home buyer, which is part of the American dream, today it is 110 percent higher to get a mortgage than it was a year ago. Most economists, including many Democrat economists, point to the trillions in spending in Washington as the reason for that. Families have figured this out and said: Stop the madness. Yet, again, at the White House in the most tone-deaf thing I have seen in a while, the President is having a party celebrating a $730 billion increase in taxes and spending at the exact same time that the market is tanking because of the inflation created by all this spending. To finish it up, transportation costs are 11.3 percent higher. That is what is happening in America. Again, Europe did a lot of these same bad policies. They figured it out, and they are starting to reverse course.…”