Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is putting plenty of distance between his GOP caucus and a plan from Sen. Rick Scott of Florida that would allow all federal programs to sunset after five years.
The plan released by Mr. Scott, a Republican, last year became a punching bag for Democrats who say it would put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block.
The GOP leader heaped criticism on Mr. Scott after President Biden hammered the Floridian in his State of the Union address and again on Thursday during a trip to Tampa. “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,” Mr. McConnell said on the podcast. “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.”
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