McConnell distances GOP from Rick Scott as Biden steps up Social Security, Medicare attacks on GOP
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Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that a proposal to sunset Medicare and Social Security was Sen. Rick Scott's idea, and not the Republican Party's plan.
"Unfortunately, that was the Scott plan, that’s not a Republican plan," McConnell told Kentucky radio host Terry Meiners on his eponymous podcast, emphasizing that the GOP never endorsed Scott's proposals. Chris Pandolfo is a writer for Fox News Digital. Send tips to chris.pandolfo@fox.com and follow him on Twitter @ChrisCPandolfo.
"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," McConnell continued. "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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