In S. Carolina, Fiorina says fed govt needs accountability

LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Carly Fiorina focused on economics during a campaign stop in South Carolina, telling several hundred voters in the early voting state she would hold federal agencies accountable for every dime they request in their budgets.

The businesswoman told a crowd at a packed barbecue restaurant in Lexington that the federal government should play no role in the minimum wage debate and that people need to be made less reliant on entitlement programs.

Fiorina is spending the week in South Carolina on the heels of her latest GOP debate performance and rise in recent polls.

After her stop in Lexington, she visited South Carolina’s Republican Party headquarters to officially file her paperwork for the state’s first-in-the-South primary.

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