Scott Perry
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ThenJanuary 23, 2013
“We're bankrupting America... We cannot continue to spend money we don't have.”
Perry was elected to Congress as a deficit hawk and served as chairman of the Freedom Caucus, which was created to rein in government spending
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-came-congress-fight-deficit-face-attacks-raising-trump-rcna227533NowMay 22, 2025
“We helped secure changes to the Trump legislation that brought its cost down by more than $1 trillion.”
Perry voted for Trump's 'big beautiful bill' estimated to hike deficits by more than $4 trillion over a decade
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-came-congress-fight-deficit-face-attacks-raising-trump-rcna227533Analysis
Built his entire political identity around fiscal conservatism and deficit reduction, then voted for what his own Democratic colleagues called 'the single greatest increase to our national debt in American history'
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