Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that a proposal to sunset Medicare and Social Security was Sen. Rick Scott's idea, and not the Republican Party's plan.
President Biden sticks to his message in a trip to Florida despite pushback from Sen. Rick Scott reports White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich on 'Special Report.', R-Ky., in an interview Thursday put further distance between the Republican Party and the"Plan to Rescue America" proposed by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., as President Biden has continued to attack Republicans for allegedly wanting to sunset Medicare and Social Security.
"The Republican plan — as I pointed out last fall — if we were to become the majority, there are no plans to raise taxes on half the American people or to sunset Medicare or Social Security," McConnell continued."So, it's clearly the Rick Scott plan, it is not the Republican plan, and that's the view of the Speaker of the House as well,"
The Biden White House has repeatedly accused Republicans of wanting to put Social Security and Medicare"" – which GOP lawmakers have vigorously denied. The issue came up during the State of the Union address Tuesday night, when Biden cited Scott's plan and again accused some Republicans of wanting to cut those programs, though he acknowledged it was not a"majority."
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