Tuberville Joins Kudlow to Discuss Democrats’ Affordability Problem

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss a recent Wall Street Journal editorial called "The 'Affordability' Democrats? You Have to Be Kidding."

Read excerpts from the interview below or watch here.

KUDLOW: "Senator Tuberville from Alabama. Senator Tuberville, great to see you again, sir. So, I like the Wall Street Journal editorial today, 'The Affordability Democrats? You Have to Be Kidding.' They're the ones that are going to make life more affordable by reducing spending and inflation? Really? What's the track record there?"

TUBERVILLE: "Larry, my first four years here, the Democrats were in charge of everything. And what'd we do? We spent $4 trillion more than we should have even thought about spending. It's about the money that we're putting out there that's causing prices to go up. We're trying to cut back, but the Democrats have no desire to ever cut back on anything in the federal government. They want to keep adding to it. And President Trump has cut out [about] 400,000 government workers. He's trying to do everything he possibly can to get the basics right. But you can't fix this overnight […] if you just look at the gas prices, for instance, now they're too high. Gas prices and diesel prices are way too high. We've got to get this war over with. But Joe Biden averaged $3.89 a gallon his first two years. President Trump has averaged $3.43 his first two years. So, he's actually winning the battle. But, of course, President Trump's having to pay the price for all this stupid spending that we've done over the last few years."

KUDLOW: "You know, on the inflation front, again, this is from the Wall Street Journal editorial […]. The average inflation rate during the Biden years was 5%. The average inflation rate under Mr. Trump so far is 2.9%. So, to your point, sir, yes, gasoline prices are too high and diesel prices are too high. And you know, we feel that pain and we hope the war ends relatively soon. But the reality is Trump's inflation is a lot lower than Biden's inflation. And here's my other point. What are they going to do? They're going to increase spending on welfare. They're going to increase spending on 'Medicare for all,' which has been estimated to be a hundred trillion dollars over 10 years. They're going to increase spending on housing. […] They're going to put phony [climate change], you know, Green New Deal. They hate gasoline. The Democrats would love eight to ten dollars a gallon. There's one right there. Look at the state of California, six and a half bucks, Democratic gasoline, high taxes, and climate restrictions."

TUBERVILLE: "You're exactly right, Larry. And you know, everybody talks about prices and I talk to my people back home. You look back at the Biden administration-for four years, they were devastating against the farmers in this country. We lost 125,000 farms in the United States of America in the four years under Joe Biden. We lost 25,000 farmers. They went and did something else-they couldn't make a living. They had so many regulations. The prices were high. The input costs were out of sight. The seeds went up. The fertilizer went up. But nobody said anything about it. But they're all going out of business. […] Larry, remember this, Democrats want all of our food to come from other countries. They want farmers out of business because of the climate hoax and they want to save our land. The farmers are the best conservationists in the country and the Democrats don't understand it."

KUDLOW: "Yeah. You know, that's a wonderful point. That's a really important point. But, you know, back to this, they can talk about gasoline and affordability. Everything under the Biden years was anti-fossil fuel. They don't want any oil drilling. They don't want any natural gas. They don't want any gasoline. Right. They don't want any gasoline-powered cars for heaven's sakes. And you look at these West Coast states, for example, some in the Northeast, too, and everything they've done to stop fossil fuels and to tax and regulate and sanction gasoline. I mean, for heaven's sakes, who are we kidding here? California, six and a half bucks. That's a harbinger of the future. I don't know why more people haven't just pointed that out."

TUBERVILLE: "Well, you're exactly right. And what did Biden do the first day? He stopped the Keystone Pipeline, five million barrels a day. We're trying to build pipelines for natural gas across the state of Alabama. Back when Biden was in office, we couldn't get any permitting. They wouldn't talk to us about it. Now President Trump is starting to release all that. They tried to stop drilling in the Gulf of America, which would have been a detriment and almost closed Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida down because we get a lot of revenue from that. They wanted to close it down. These people don't believe in anything other than a [climate] hoax or try to put this country under and run it into socialism. If you want to do it, that'd be the best way to do it. You shut down all this fossil fuels and it is over with for the United States of America."

KUDLOW: "Last 20 seconds, Senator. Are people too bearish? Are they too doomsterish about the GOP?"

TUBERVILLE: "No, no, we're going to win. We're going to win, Larry. It's going to be a great month for us coming up. President Trump's coming to Mobile, Alabama, on Friday night for his first rally. I'm going to get to introduce him. I'm looking forward to seeing him. It is going to be a great month because we're going to tell the true story out there and people are going to listen to it face to face because the mainstream media is not going to talk about it."

Senator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans' Affairs, HELP and Aging Committees.

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