WASHINGTON — The feud between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Florida Sen. Rick Scott isn’t exactly new, but it boiled hotter this week as President Joe Biden amplified his use of Scott as a campaign-style foil.
“The very idea the senator from Florida wants to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every five years I find to be somewhat outrageous, so outrageous that you might not even believe it,” Biden said Thursday in Tampa, Florida.
McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, has tried to distance other congressional Republicans from the “Rescue America Plan” Scott released during the 2022 midterm elections, especially its provision that says “all federal legislation sunsets in 5 years” and should be passed by Congress again if it “is worth keeping.”
