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Debbie Mucarsel-Powell Responds to Rick Scott’s Senate GOP Leader Campaign Announcement
The Florida Senate Race Could Now Decide Not Only Not Only Who’s In The Majority, But Also Who’s Majority Leader
If Rick Scott Becomes Majority Leader, He Wouldn’t Hesitate To Sunset Social Security And Medicare, Raise Taxes On Middle-Class Families, And Push Through A National Abortion Ban
Miami, FL – Tonight, Rick Scott announced that he is running to be the next Senate Republican leader. In response, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell released the following statement:
“Self-serving Rick Scott is a danger to Florida families, and as Senate leader, he would be a disaster for Americans,” said Debbie Mucarsel-Powell. “We all know if Rick Scott gets elected to Senate leadership, he won’t hesitate to push his toxic and out-of-touch agenda to sunset Social Security and Medicare, raise taxes on middle-class families, and force a national abortion ban onto the American people. There’s no line Rick Scott won’t cross to further his own extreme agenda. The stakes of this race just got so much higher, but voters are fired up and ready to retire Rick Scott – for working Floridians and for Americans across the country.”
Rick Scott in Senate leadership would be disastrous for Americans:
Rick Scott will force a national abortion ban, criminalizing health care providers.
- Rick Scott has unapologetically backed Florida’s abortion ban with no real exceptions for rape or incest.
- Scott has pledged to sign any anti-abortion bill before him. [Twitter, 5/1/24]
- Scott has already cosponsored a national abortion ban in the Senate. [S.3275, 2/11/20]
- On Florida’s dangerous six-week abortion ban with hardly any exceptions, Rick Scott said “I am 100% pro-life and if I was still governor, I would sign this bill.” [The Hill, 4/13/23]
- As NRSC chair, Rick Scott funded and endorsed candidates who oppose access to contraception. [Business Insider, 5/7/22]
Rick Scott will sunset Social Security and Medicare, leaving millions of families uninsured and ripping away seniors’ hard-earned benefits.
- McConnell on Rick Scott’s plan to eliminate critical programs: “Unfortunately, that was the Scott plan, that’s not a Republican plan.” [The Hill, 2/9/23]
- “‘I think it will be a challenge for him to deal with this in his own reelection in Florida,’ McConnell quipped, adding that it is ‘a state with more elderly people than any other state in America.’” [The Hill, 2/9/23]
- Rick Scott tries to run from his record, but Americans know where he really stands. “That’s not true, Senator.” [CNN, 2/9/23]
- While Rick Scott lies to seniors on his record, his extreme agenda to eliminate critical programs has raised doubts with 75% of voters. [Florida Politics, 8/16/23]
Rick Scott will raise taxes on middle class families.
- “You recently put out an 11 point plan to rescue America. […] So that would raise taxes on half of Americans and potentially sunset programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Why would you propose something like that in an election year?” [Fox News, 3/27/22]
Rick Scott will make our communities less safe.
- Rick Scott launched a comprehensive policy plan that could have put an end to federal programs supporting law enforcement, forcing devastating cuts in federal aid to local police. [Miami Herald, 2/22/22]
- Rick Scott voted against the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act – the most significant federal gun safety measure in three decades supported by 15 Republican Senators – saying he “will not support soft-on-crime policies like this.” [News4Jax, 6/24/22]
- Rick Scott cosponsored a joint resolution to overturn regulations cracking down on homemade ghost guns – which would have allowed anyone to buy unserialized gun kits without a background check. [S.J.Res.45, 5/22/22]
- Rick Scott pushed for legislation that would’ve made it possible for extremely dangerous weapons like machine guns to be sold without a completed federal background check. [S.632, 3/2/23]
Rick Scott will put political games before our national security interests, furthering Putin and China’s agendas.
- “U.S. Sen. Rick Scott criticized his own caucus’s leadership for the situation, and may be laying groundwork for a leadership campaign.” [Florida Politics, 2/6/24]
- Rick Scott is a member of the Senate “Breakfast Club,” a group of hard-right Republican senators who strive only to obstruct the Senate process. [The New York Times, 2/9/24]
- “Referring to the uprising against McConnell, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), said ‘we now have a Freedom Caucus in the Senate who is unafraid of calling for the removal of their leader.’” [Politico, 2/23/24]
