Mitch McConnell and Rick Scott are bickering over entitlements, as well as the Republican Party's plans for 2024 and beyond, writes Philip_Elliott for The D.C. Brief
Why the GOP Squabble Over Social Security and Medicare Is About Power More Than Policy
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell listens as Sen. Rick Scott speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022 in Washington, DC.This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign upInside the Beltway, there has been plenty of gleeful gloating among Democrats that their Republican rivals across the aisle seem to be once again engaged in a messy, public fight that pins the top GOP senator against one of his own.
“Unfortunately, that was the Scott plan, that’s not a Republican plan,” McConnell told a Kentucky radio program last week after his colleagues booed a central tenet of it. Never one to let something slip, McConnell’s stiff arm of Scott was no accident at a moment when once again Scott’s idea suddenly was cast as GOP orthodoxy and not the brainchild of alawmaker musing about fiscal responsibility. McConnell is many things, but driven by ego or emotion is not one of them.
President Joe Biden and his allies have used Scott’s plan to cast Republicans as threats to Social Security and Medicare. Last week, during the State of the Union, Biden
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