Issue Position: Fiscal Responsibility

Issue Position

As a small businessman, Scott knows what it is like to make payroll and responsibly balance a budget. Over the past decade, Washington has abandoned any sense of fiscal restraint, and during his short time there, Scott has been working hard to return to fiscal sanity to get our skyrocketing deficit under control.

Scott has led the charge to eliminate wasteful spending in Washington. He voted against giving himself a raise and against increasing his office budget while Upstate families are tightening their belts. He has also voted to eliminate nearly $40 billion in government spending from annual appropriations bills.

Soon after he was elected, Scott was successful in helping push to reinstate Pay-As-You-Go rules in Washington, which require any new spending to be offset by cuts somewhere else in the budget. These principles lapsed in the last decade, and Washington has neglected to make the tough choices to rein in wasteful spending and eliminate unnecessary programs.

Additionally, Scott has led the charge against Medicare waste, fraud, and abuse. He authored the Medicare/Medicaid Fraud Prevention and Control Act, which will curtail abuse in the Medicare system and prevent criminals from defrauding taxpayers.

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