it looks like it will run dry within the next ten years. that would automatically cut benefits from 23% for every single american who needs those programs. medicare funding is vanishing even faster. the timing of all of this of trying to figure out what to do comes during a fierce battle that s happening in the nation s capital over spending. the debt growing precipitously. the stand-off between republican lawmakers and white house over raising the borrowing limits. democrats want to spend, spend, spend. republicans want to slash and save. speaker mccarthy says we had better find a way to check off the spending fast. i want to look the president in the eye and tell me there is not $1 of wasteful spending in government? who believes that? the american public doesn t believe that. our whole government is designed to have compromise, let s find common ground and let s eliminate the wasteful spending to protect the hard-working taxpayers and protect the future of america.
he put social security and medicare on the chopping block. harris: in focus now senator rick scott, member of homeland security and armed services committee. great to have you in focus. look, i laid it out for what s at stake. the time numbers are really alarming. ten years or less it will go by very quickly for people who totally depend on those programs, medicare and social sec security. i would never cut medicare or social security. i will do everything i can to make sure there are no cuts in medicare and social security. the democrats all voted to cut 280 billion out of medicare last september and biden signed it. 280 billion they cut and want to say other people will do it. here is what we have to do. we have to grow our economy. here is what s going on right now. the left, the big government crowd, wall street are saying you have to spend more money,