Rick Scott battles with CNN anchor over claim Biden cut Medicare

CNN's Jake Tapper shreds Rick Scott for twisting his words to falsely claim Biden cut Medicare

Confronted in an interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins about his plan to sunset Social Security and Medicare — which Biden assailed in his State of the Union Address and which Republicans are falsely claiming was not true — Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) deflected and used a quote from CNN's Jake Tapper to t...

Rick Scott battles with CNN anchor over claim Biden cut Medicare

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), whom the White House is trying to make the “poster child” for Medicare and Social Security cuts, tried to flip the script on Thursday in a contentious CNN interview by claiming President Biden cut Medicare in the Inflation Reduction Act. Scott battled with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins, who dismissed Scott’s…

Fact check: Sen. Rick Scott keeps repeating a debunked claim about Biden and Medicare

By Daniel Dale, CNN Just before President Joe Biden’s visit to Florida on Thursday, one of the state’s Republican senators, Rick Scott, repeated a false claim about Biden and Medicare — a claim that was debunked by multiple news outlets when Scott and a Scott-chaired Republican organization uttered it during the 2022 midterm campaign. Scott made the claim both in an interview with “CNN This Morning” co-anchor Kaitlan Collins on Thursday morning …

Fact check: Sen. Rick Scott keeps repeating a debunked claim about Biden and Medicare

Just before President Joe Biden's visit to Florida on Thursday, one of the state's Republican senators, Rick Scott, repeated a false claim about Biden and Medicare -- a claim that was debunked by multiple news outlets when Scott and a Scott-chaired Republican organization uttered it during the 2022 midterm campaign.

Jake Tapper Calls Bullsh*t On Rick Scott’s Bogus Claim That Joe Biden ‘Cut’ Medicare’

Rather than admitting that he wants to dramatically slash spending on Social Security and Medicare, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is now trying to shift blame for his heartless plan and suggest that other…

Rick Scott calls out CNN in clash over Medicare: 'Did the same fact-checkers...look at what Jake Tapper said?'

Kaitlan Collins pressed Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., in a contentious interview Thursday accusing the Republican of wanting to make cuts to Medicare and Social Security.