{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-joins-kudlow-to-discuss-democrats-affordability-problem/", "Tuberville Joins Kudlow to Discuss Democrats\u2019 Affordability Problem", "2026-09-30", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss a recent Wall Street Journal editorial called \u201cThe \u2018Affordability\u2019 Democrats? You Have to Be Kidding.\u201d\n\nRead excerpts from the interview below or watch here.\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cSenator Tuberville from Alabama. Senator Tuberville, great to see you again, sir. So, I like the Wall Street Journal editorial today, \u2018The Affordability Democrats? You Have to Be Kidding.\u2019 They\u2019re the ones that are going to make life more affordable by reducing spending and inflation? Really? What\u2019s the track record there?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cLarry, my first four years here, the Democrats were in charge of everything. And what\u2019d we do? We spent $4 trillion more than we should have even thought about spending. It\u2019s about the money that we\u2019re putting out there that\u2019s causing prices to go up. We\u2019re 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\u2019s trying to do everything he possibly can to get the basics right. But you can\u2019t fix this overnight [\u2026] if you just look at the gas prices, for instance, now they\u2019re too high. Gas prices and diesel prices are way too high. We\u2019ve 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\u2019s actually winning the battle. But, of course, President Trump\u2019s having to pay the price for all this stupid spending that we\u2019ve done over the last few years.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYou know, on the inflation front, again, this is from the Wall Street Journal editorial [\u2026]. 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\u2019s inflation is a lot lower than Biden\u2019s inflation. And here\u2019s my other point. What are they going to do? They\u2019re going to increase spending on welfare. They\u2019re going to increase spending on \u2018Medicare for all,\u2019 which has been estimated to be a hundred trillion dollars over 10 years. They\u2019re going to increase spending on housing. [\u2026] They\u2019re 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\u2019s one right there. Look at the state of California, six and a half bucks, Democratic gasoline, high taxes, and climate restrictions.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYou\u2019re 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\u2014for 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\u2014they couldn\u2019t 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\u2019re all going out of business. [\u2026] 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\u2019t understand it.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cYeah. You know, that\u2019s a wonderful point. That\u2019s 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\u2019t want any oil drilling. They don\u2019t want any natural gas. They don\u2019t want any gasoline. Right. They don\u2019t want any gasoline-powered cars for heaven\u2019s sakes. And you look at these West Coast states, for example, some in the Northeast, too, and everything they\u2019ve done to stop fossil fuels and to tax and regulate and sanction gasoline. I mean, for heaven\u2019s sakes, who are we kidding here? California, six and a half bucks. That\u2019s a harbinger of the future. I don\u2019t know why more people haven\u2019t just pointed that out.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, you\u2019re exactly right. And what did Biden do the first day? He stopped the Keystone Pipeline, five million barrels a day. We\u2019re trying to build pipelines for natural gas across the state of Alabama. Back when Biden was in office, we couldn\u2019t get any permitting. They wouldn\u2019t 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\u2019t 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\u2019d 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.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cLast 20 seconds, Senator. Are people too bearish? Are they too doomsterish about the GOP?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cNo, no, we\u2019re going to win. We\u2019re going to win, Larry. It\u2019s going to be a great month for us coming up. President Trump\u2019s coming to Mobile, Alabama, on Friday night for his first rally. I\u2019m going to get to introduce him. I\u2019m looking forward to seeing him. It is going to be a great month because we\u2019re 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.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, HELP and Aging Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-10-01T11:23:28Z", "2026-10-01T11:25:15Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-joins-kudlow-to-discuss-democrats-affordability-problem/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.251921221613884, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}