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Amid the continuing kerfuffle in France over a U.S. plan to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines, some lawmakers on the left and right are questioning the point of NATO membership, an alliance which French President Emmanuel Macron two years ago described as “brain dead.”
Steve Scalise has a reminder. “There’s definitely a sugar high that comes with this idea of everything being free, but innately Americans know there is no such thing as a free lunch. Somebody’s got to pay for it and usually, it’s everybody in the middle class,” the Louisiana lawmaker told Fox Business Network. “The lower-income people are the ones who end up paying the bill for these kind of massive spending programs. That’s how history has borne out,” Mr. Scalise predicted, advising that the “very far-left element of the Democrat Party” are the ones controlling Mr. Biden...