The Republican US Senate leader wants no part of such a policy move which would surely result in a YUGE voter pushback that cound make last November’s GOP vote problems look like nothing...
The two Republican senators are squaring off after the Florda Senator challanged McConnell for the top party spot….
Trump may have been dumping on McConnell for a awhile…
But most of the GOP US Senator’s are fine with McConnell’s leadership Scott has found out…
This is but ANOTHER thing Democrats can shake their heads at and smile….
The Republicans in both house of congress seem to be eating their own…..
Oh, and Trump is ALSO campaigning against Republican’s touching Medicare and Social Security…
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-K.Y.) said in an interview on Thursday a proposed initiative to sunset Social Security and Medicare was not a “Republican plan,” but one proposed and supported only by fellow Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.).
Scott, who was unsuccessful in his run against McConnell for the top seat in the National Republican Senatorial Committee, proposed a plan in 2022 to sunset all federal legislation after five years, forcing Congress to reauthorize them.
“Unfortunately, that was the Scott plan, that’s not a Republican plan,” McConnell told Terry Meiners on his self-titled podcast, noting that Republicans never planned to implement Scott’s policy, even if they had won the majority in November.
“So it’s clearly the Rick Scott plan, it is not the Republican plan,” McConnell reiterated. “And that’s the view of the Speaker of the House as well.”
McConnell said that because he and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy were in GOP leadership positions, they had more authority to “state what the position of the party is than any single senator.”
Calling Scott’s plan “a bad idea,” McConnell echoed McCarthy’s promises that the programs wouldn’t be touched, drawing attention instead to the Florida senator’s upcoming election.
“I think it will be a challenge for him to deal with this in his own reelection in Florida,” McConnell quipped, adding that it is “a state with more elderly people than any other state in America.”
The issue was brought back to light on Tuesday night when President Biden criticized the Republican Party for Scott’s proposed plan in his annual State of the Union address….