WASHINGTON, D.C. – In case you missed it, Senator Rick Scott wrote an op-ed for the Washington Examiner highlighting the immediate need for fiscal reform and criticizing the Bidenomics Agenda that has forced America’s economy into disarray and made Americans’ everyday lives more difficult to afford. Since being elected to the U.S. Senate, Senator Scott has repeatedly urged action to address America’s debt crisis and the harmful effects of inflation. Click HERE for a comprehensive list of his statements and actions on this urgent issue and HERE for Senator Scott’s Quarterly Economic Snapshot.

In the op-ed, Senator Rick Scott writes, “Think about how much better your life was in 2019. Former President Donald Trump created the best economy in our lifetimes. The Trump tax cuts and innovative economic policies, such as the creation of opportunity zones, allowed businesses to create good, high-paying full-time jobs, and gross domestic product grew at a consistent rate of more than 2% per year. America was strong at home and abroad. Then came President Joe Biden. Biden and the Democrats hijacked the COVID-19 pandemic to force America into a new era of super-government control and, with it, unbelievably reckless government spending. Under the Biden administration, the national debt has skyrocketed by nearly $8 trillion and is now nearly $35 trillion. 

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Let’s put this into perspective: the population has increased by only 2% since 2019, but spending has increased 55% during the same time.

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Inflation has skyrocketed since Biden took office.

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Our government’s massive debt and reckless spending caused this, and people in every state are rightly furious that so-called leaders in Washington are fueling the problem.

I grew up in public housing. I’ve been blessed in life and have had success in business, but I know where I started.

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That’s why I get so mad about what is going on in Washington, D.C., when these massive spending bills are shoved down our throats without any consideration for what it means for hardworking families — the ones like mine growing up — who are getting kicked in the teeth every day with skyrocketing inflation and fewer full-time jobs.

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And yet the federal government continues to sleepwalk into a massive fiscal buzz saw. We must force Washington to admit its failures, cut the overzealous spending that has fueled inflation and hurt families with skyrocketing prices, and rein in Biden’s massive government and the burdensome regulatory environment that is suffocating businesses and destroying opportunity. We did it when I was governor of Florida and we can do it in Washington, too. I believe that we can fully fund the things that matter in government while getting rid of the waste that has caused the problems before us.

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If we don’t dramatically change the way Washington functions, we will lose our country. Republicans cannot continue to consent to business as usual in Washington, and that’s exactly why I’m running to be the next Senate Republican leader. 

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We must regain control of Washington, stop caving to Democrats’ radical agenda, and put America back on the path to fiscal sanity.”

Read the full op-ed in the Washington Examiner HERE.

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