Rick Scott says Biden administration ‘hurts Floridians’ with inflation

WASHINGTON, D.C. (FLV) – Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., released a statement on the state of inflation under the Biden administration, following July’s Consumer Price Index numbers.

CNBC reported that it has increased by 3.2% over the year in July 2023, slightly lower than expected.

“The Biden administration continues to hurt Florida families and businesses with its backward ‘Bidenomics’ policies without any plan to fix it,” Scott said in a press release.

Scott noted that since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, inflation has risen nearly 17% as of July’s data, per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“This week, I have been traveling Florida to hear what issues families are facing, and in each big city or small town I stop in one thing keeps getting mentioned—inflation,” he said.

He added that people all across Florida are now being forced to choose between gas and groceries all because of Biden’s “reckless tax-and-spend agenda.”

Scott assured Floridians that he is “fighting like hell” in Washington to end the “broken” status quo and put an end to the inflation concerns as they continue to “skyrocket out of control.”

“I will never stop fighting to make Washington work for the hardworking Floridians who are trying their best to make ends meet and take care of their families.”

“We have to stop Washington’s reckless spending and get our house in order,” he closed.

Scott joined 35 other senators, including Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., to vote against the debt ceiling bill in June. He argued that balancing the budget is a priority for “fiscal sanity” and combatting the ever-growing inflation numbers.

“I voted no today because this legislation will only bury us deeper in debt and does nothing to stop the rampant inflation Biden and the Democrats have caused with their addiction to reckless government spending,” he said in a statement following his vote.

Biden commented on the Inflation Reduction Act that he signed during an event in Albuquerque, New Mexico Wednesday.

“Inflation is at its lowest point in two years, and we have the lowest rate of inflation among the worlds major economies,” Biden said.

He added that through the legislation, his administration was able to make “historic investments” in clean energy.