Scott sundown plan ‘not a Republican plan’
Senate Republican Chief Mitch McConnell stated any thought on sunsetting Social Safety and Medicare belongs to Sen. Rick Scott—not the GOP.
“Sadly, that was the Scott plan, that’s not a Republican plan,” McConnell stated on a Kentucky radio program.
McConnell’s feedback about Scott, a GOP rival, come because the White Home continues to highlight how Republicans heckled — and apparently dedicated to not contact entitlement applications — throughout President Joe Biden’s State of the Union handle this week.
“Speaker (Kevin) McCarthy stated Social Safety and Medicare are to not be touched and I’ve stated the identical,” McConnell instructed radio host Terry Meiners on Thursday.
“And I believe we’re in a extra authoritative place to state what the place of the celebration is than any single senator.”
The background
Social Safety and Medicare are two of the federal authorities’s hottest – and costliest – entitlement applications. They’ve lengthy been a supply of heated debate throughout discussions concerning the nationwide debt and federal spending.
Regardless of the GOP’s guarantees to not reduce the applications, Democrats say some Republicans – like Scott – have proposed doing simply that. Scott’s plan would sundown all authorities applications, together with Social Safety and Medicare, after 5 years.
McConnell v. Scott will get uglier
The 2 senators have been at odds for months.
Scott challenged McConnell’s maintain on management final November after blaming the Kentucky Republican for the GOP’s poor exhibiting within the 2022 Senate races.
McConnell shot again throughout Thursday’s radio look that the thought could possibly be “a problem for (Scott) to take care of this in his personal reelection in Florida, a state with extra aged folks than some other state in America.”
Scott spokesman Chris Hartline bristled at that suggestion and blasted McConnell in a tweet Thursday saying: “Some D.C. Republicans can maintain parroting Democrat lies, however that gained’t cease Rick Scott from preventing for conservative ideas as a substitute of caving to Biden each day.”
