McConnell was on Kentucky radio Thursday with Terry Meiners and said this of Scott’s 12-point plan, which, again, calls for all federal laws to sunset after five years:
McConnell: “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. 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.”
Meiners: “Rick Scott’s out saying that’s not his plan at all. And I know the documents the president’s holding up. So what is the Republican answer in terms of Social Security and Medicare for the American people to hear to counterbalance what the president is saying?”
McConnell: “Speaker McCarthy said Social Security and Medicare are not to be touched and I’ve said the same and I think we’re in a more authoritative position to say what the position of the party is than any single senator.”
Meiners: “So Rick Scott’s really not back in the fold yet after he ran against you for leadership.”
McConnell: “Doesn’t have anything to do with that. I mean it’s just a bad idea. I think it will be a challenge for him to deal with this in his own reelection in Florida, a state with more elderly people than any state in America.”
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