Mitch McConnell slams Rick Scott's plan to sunset Social Security and Medicare, calling it 'a bad idea'
he introduced last year that included a proposal to sunset all federal legislation, including Social Security and Medicare, after five years, meaning Congress would have to repeatedly approve the programs.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told Kentucky radio host Terry Meiners on Thursday that the GOP does not back Scott's ideas. "That was the Scott plan. That's not a Republican plan. That was the Rick Scott plan. The Republican plan, as I pointed out last fall, if we were to come the majority, there were no plans to raise taxes on half the American people or to sunset Medicare or Social Security," McConnell said, likely referring to a section in Scott's plan that"I mean it's just a bad idea," McConnell added.
"I guarantee you, it will not happen," Biden added."I will veto it. I'll defend Social Security and Medicare."on Thursday that Biden is a"hypocrite and a liar." "I've never ever said I would reduce Medicare or Social Security benefits. I've only said I wanted to preserve them and save them," Scott told reporters. He even invited the president to debate him on the issue, but Biden hasn't taken him up on that offer.
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