part of the conversation. every seat has one of the pamphlets waiting for them when the president arrives, that s rick scott making it clear what the president has proposed sunsetting all federal legislation including social security and medicare every five years. part of the goal for the white house, andrea, to broaden it out and talk about ways in which other republicans have not only talked about targeting retirement programs like social security and medicare but wanting to attack and undermine health care security in general. whether it s repealing the inflation reduction act which has all sorts of new caps and insurance benefits for americans, especially seniors, or repealing the affordable care act. so that s going to be part of the president s explicit message today. but it s also, of course, interesting to note this is just the fourth time president biden is coming to florida since taking office. two of those occasions have been about disaster relief when he s appeared with gov
biden s key legislative initiatives, which has of course new prescription price caps, new cost savings for especially seniors. he s going to make the argument here that while his administration is doing multiple things to not just protect retirement programs but make health care costs cheaper for average americans, republican policies would reverse that. it s also worth noting he s trying to draw out republican divisions here as well, and there s maybe no bigger potential divide in the republican party than the potential showdown between ron desantis, the sitting governor here and donald trump the former president, a new monmouth university poll had them tied among national republicans neck in neck. as we see president trump trying to increasingly take aim at governor desantis with eyes on that republican primary, it was worth noting what governor desantis himself said, which is that he s focused on two things, delivering for the people of florida, and also fighting joe biden. so he s
if anyone tries to cut social security, we re going to stop it. if anyone tries to cut medicare, we re going to stop it. reporter: and then, the president broadened this beyond just retirement programs to say, you know, republicans including the speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy have called for the repealing the inflation reduction act. that will lead to higher drug costs. as he took aim at desantis, he could have expanded medicaid, but chose not to do so. the president thinks retirement programs, but health care more broadly is a big winning issue, especially here in florida. it s a state he lost by 3.36% of the vote in 2020, but he noted there are a lot of retirees, seniors, this is an event eyeing for fighting for this state in 2024. mike memoli, on the road for us the last couple of days. come home, appreciate it. president biden in florida, perhaps as memorily lays out, laying the foundation for his
unscripted state of the union address than we re used to, as he was just outside madison talking to, as you can still see them milling behind me, a group of union workers. one is the exchange over retirement programs, social security and medicare. a lot of back and forth with the chamber last night. president biden reading verbatim, holding up the pamphlets from senator rick scott and senator ron johnson about what he was talking about when he referred to wanting to undercut social security and medicare, so the president clearly enjoying that. yes, you talked about sort of the interesting dynamic, he was talking about the major issues we thought he would, but also issues like airline fees that a lot of people were surprised to hear him talking about last night. biden talked earlier here today about the fact that he was watching some of the coverage of his speech and he talked about the fact that somebody was questioning why he would talk about junk fees, and he had an
for every u.s. taxpayer. pennsylvania republican scott perry says the countries that overspent. he helped delay kevin mccarthy s election as speaker a fews okay and wants spending cuts. the american people are sick of it. they want responsibility used when it comes to spending their hard-earned money and we re going to get after that. that s our pledge. reporter: but the white house says it s too dangerous to negotiate over the debt limit and a standoff with republicans could lead to an economic collapse, a major concern for hardware story manager bill hart. just last week i purchased for halloween and christmas. in this business, you have to plan way out, especially when you re getting things shipped from overseas. reporter: tonight, the treasury department says it will halt payments to some programs, retirement programs for federal workers to buy congress four months to raise the debt ceiling. after that, they say they ll have no more emergency measures to employ. norah. o