Republicans are hoping to disarm one of Democrats' most recent, and possibly potent, attacks: that the GOP wants to cut Medicare and Social Security.
President Joe Biden has pounced on a 12-point plan by Sen. Rick Scott that sunsets all federal legislation unless Congress votes to renew it every five years. Although the plan is the policy agenda of a single senator, Democrats have pointed to this and other proposals from the party's most conservative lawmakers to claim that Republicans want to put Social Security and Medicare"on the chopping block.
But, understanding the political saliency of the messaging, Republicans have begun to flip the script, arguing it's Democrats who want to jeopardize the entitlements. “You earned your retirement benefits, you followed the rules and paid into the system, but Jon Tester wants to take them away,” one of the ads says. “Tester backed Joe Biden’s extreme agenda, putting your Social Security and Medicare at risk.”
The ads were released coincidentally the same day Scott, the former chairman of the NRSC, amended his policy agenda to exempt Social Security and Medicare from his sunset proposal. “Note to President Biden, Sen. Schumer, and Sen. McConnell — As you know, this was never intended to apply to Social Security, Medicare, or the US Navy," he says in the updated plan.
Allies of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , who has called the plan a"bad idea," say Scott’s revisions are evidence he realized the plan's language was a mistake. “If he had to do it over again, I’m sure he would do it differently. It’s one of those things where, you know, he was trying to be simple and on message and kind of understandable, and he didn’t think through some of the nuances,” said Saul Anuzis, a GOP strategist and former Michigan Republican Party chairman.
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