House Minority Whip Steve Scalise told “Sunday Morning Futures” that Democrats are “tying the infrastructure package hostage” to the reconciliation bill and argued that linking the two “would devastate America's economy.'
"There is an October 31st Surface Transportation Authorization deadline, after last night’s passage of a critical 30-day extension. We must pass [Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework] well before then – the sooner the better, to get the jobs out there," she said.
"That should be scary to every family in America because it would raise taxes that every family would pay, not just the rich," he told Bartiromo.
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