Sen. Rick Scott ended last year with a failed leadership challenge to Mitch McConnell (R-KY), but as a new Congress gets underway, the Florida Republican is making clear his feud with the Senate minority leader is only just beginning.

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Scott pointed to his 2021 proposed amendment to the Senate Republican Conference that commits to raising the debt ceiling only if it also secures spending reforms.

“I’ll be fighting with every tool at my disposal to enforce this rule that every Republican in the Senate agreed to follow,” Scott said in a statement released on Wednesday. “A day of reckoning is coming.”

“I look forward to working with House Republicans so we can stop caving to the Democrats, finally end Biden’s raging inflation crisis and bring fiscal sanity back to Washington,” Scott added in a veiled attack on McConnell.