Scott touts Rea­gan phi­los­o­phy for UAW strike and slams Biden for being ‘leased’ by unions

Sen. Tim Scott (R‑SC) recalled Pres­i­dent Ronald Reagan’s words about fed­er­al work­ers strik­ing when dis­cussing how he’d han­dle the Unit­ed Auto Work­ers strike.
“Ronald Rea­gan gave us a great exam­ple when fed­er­al boys decid­ed to strike: ‘You strike, you’re fired.’ Sim­ple con­cept to me to the extent that we could use that once again,” Scott told a gath­er­ing of sup­port­ers. “Absolute­ly.”
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Scott, who is a 2024 GOP pres­i­den­tial can­di­date, was ref­er­enc­ing Rea­gan’s choice to fire more than 11,000 fed­er­al work­ers in 1981 who did not return to work when ordered to. Before those fir­ings, rough­ly 13,000 air traf­fic con­trollers had cho­sen to walk out after dis­cus­sions with the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion had fall­en apart.
“The sec­ond thing that I would do that’s very impor­tant, and this is prob­a­bly not a well-known fact,” he con­tin­ued. “Part of the chal­lenge that we have today with Pres­i­dent Biden is — and I don’t mean this to be disin­gen­u­ous; I mean this to be sin­cere — I’m not sure the words are ‘bought and paid for,’ but cer­tain­ly he has been leased by the unions.”
Scott remind­ed …