When Can Republicans Take Healthcare Up Again

An xi-point agenda proposed past Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., continues to produce fodder for set on ads from Democrats.

Scott's plan, which he pitched every bit a platform for the GOP should the political party take back Congress in November, indicated support for raising income taxes on millions of Americans by saying that all Americans should pay some income tax, and half don't. Democrats like Rep. Val Demings teed upwards the plan to falsely tag Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., as supporting Scott's pitch. Demings is running for Rubio'southward Senate seat.

At present the Autonomous Senatorial Entrada Committee — the direct rival to the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee that Scott chairs — is going after another plank of Scott's plan.

Its 30-second Boob tube ad uses clips from a Fox News interview of Scott. The ballast questions Scott about how the plan would raise taxes and "potentially sunset" programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Then these words appear on the ad's screen:

"SENATE REPUBLICANS' PLAN — END SOCIAL SECURITY"

"SENATE REPUBLICANS' PLAN — Stop MEDICARE"

Claims that Social Security and Medicare are imperiled are mutual during election campaigns. The DSCC attack goes too far in framing Scott's idea as a broadly supported death penalty for Medicare and Social Security.

The first thing to know is that Scott's program, released Feb. 22, was proposed by him — non a grouping of Senate Republicans. Leading Republicans such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky quickly panned parts of information technology.

The adjacent is that information technology didn't directly call for ending those programs as the ad bottom-lined. Information technology calls for all federal legislation to sunset within five years. That leaves open up the possibility of those programs ending were Congress not to approve them again.

In rejecting Scott's proposal, McConnell said, "We volition not have as part of our agenda a neb that raises taxes on half the American people and sunsets Social Security and Medicare within five years."

The meaning of 'sunset'

Scott's plan mentions Social Security and Medicare one time, in a department labeled Authorities Reform/Debt: "Forcefulness Congress to issue a report every yr telling the public what they plan to do when Social Security and Medicare go broke."

The plan also says: "All federal legislation sunsets in 5 years. If a law is worth keeping, Congress can laissez passer information technology once more."

The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service says "the sunset concept provides for programs and agencies to terminate automatically on a periodic basis unless explicitly renewed by law."

Nether Scott'due south programme, all federal laws, including those creating Social Security and Medicare, would expire afterward five years. Congress would accept to renew the laws information technology wants to keep.

Every bit the New York Times reported: "Taken literally, that would leave the fate of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to the whims of a Congress that rarely passes anything so expansive."

As PolitiFact Wisconsin reported, Scott's statement was generic and did non directly call for the phasing out of either program.

The DSCC ad cites a news story that points out that Social Security and Medicare would be ended just if the laws creating them were not renewed.

Scott in the past has raised concerns about the affect of the two programs on the federal debt.

PolitiFact ruling

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee claimed that the "Senate Republicans' programme" would "end Social Security" and "cease Medicare."

The advertizing refers not to a plan from Senate Republicans but from one Republican, Scott. The plan would sunset all federal laws subsequently five years, requiring Congress to renew the laws information technology wants to keep. Federal sunsetting provides for programs to terminate automatically on a periodic basis unless they are explicitly renewed by law.

While at that place is an element of truth in that these social welfare programs could be phased out in Scott'south model, the DSCC claim overreaches by painting that uncertain outcome as a broad party position, giving voters a misleading impression.

We rate the claim Mostly Faux.

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Source: https://www.wral.com/fact-check-do-senate-republicans-want-to-end-medicare-social-security/20226958/