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Steve Scalise: “Democrats are scared to death of their socialist Marxist…”

Featuring: Steve Scalise, Republican | House Majority Leader, U.S. House Louisiana, District 1

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Speaker Johnson Joins Steve Scalise and August Pfluger on the Right to the Point Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 19:23

… openly now that they know they're causing suffering, real suffering on families, that they don't care because they want to exert leverage, leverage for what they can't even articulate. They Democrats are scared to death of their socialist Marxist base. the most extreme elements of their party, or who they're afraid of. Imagine it's not. They're doing it for something. They're doing this shutdown because they're afraid of their own voters. (19:23–19:31)

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Asserts that Democrats are afraid of the extreme elements within their party.

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