If Florida Senator Rick Scott 'never supported' cutting the programs, then why did he have to carve out exceptions for them in his Rescue America plan?
last week, “I think it will be a challenge for him to deal with this in his own re-election in Florida, a state with more elderly people than any other state in America.” Scott is up for re-election next year.
, Scott lashed out at his political opponents who have been criticizing his plan. “I have never supported cutting Social Security or Medicare, ever,” he wrote. “To say otherwise is a disingenuous Democrat lie from a very confused president. And Sen. Mitch McConnell is also well aware of that. It’s shallow gotcha politics, which is what Washington does.”
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