McConnell Distances from Rick Scott

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-K.) said in an interview that a proposed initiative to sunset Social Security and Medicare was not a “Republican plan,” but one proposed and supported only by fellow Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), The Hill reports.

Said McConnell: “Unfortunately, that was the Scott plan, that’s not a Republican plan. So it’s clearly the Rick Scott plan, it is not the Republican plan.”

He added: “And that’s the view of the Speaker of the House as well.”