politics than rick scott is, and i think that s really important to appreciate. rick scott, there was almost no chance republicans were actually meaningfully going to try to do anything on medicare or social security, but rick scott put them in the position where joe biden can take swings at them all day long, and it s very clear that this is part of joe biden s re-election campaign is to paint republicans not only as extremists but wanting to take away your medicare and social security and rick scott made that much easier for him, and it s made a lot of people very angry, and i think that s why you saw at the state of the union, all of those republicans were very eager to stand up and make very clear that they re not interested in doing that because they understand the political threat that exists and certainly if you have no chance of actually accomplishing something on these issues, why walk that plank right now. so julie, it is not like scott is the only republican who s ever cal
for populations in need. so people, we are getting out, i think, and we have more stocks that we re trying to move out. we have about 30,000 core relief items, kits that can be sent out and about 20,000 tents. the challenge is also to try and ensure that we have those stocks replenished as quickly as possible because there is an ongoing crisis, and on top of that we have these added needs. as we said, 5 million estimated homeless. thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us and thank you and all the folks who have been working in syria and continue to work in syria. as you say, some of them sleeping outside to do this great humanitarian work. we appreciate it. thank you. we ll hopefully talk to you again and check in and see how things are going in some days in the future. up next, the rift on the right over social security and medicare and the powerful
i think we do need to reform medicare, social security, but you have to bring the country along to do that. that s why you don t just plop something like this out, have no conversation about it, don t make any real effort to explain to people why it s necessary. look, some of this goes back to the trump era. donald trump very clearly decided we were no longer the party of solving these problems and a lot of people have been following him ever since. but until we start getting, you know kevin mccarthy is going to say over and over again that medicare and social security are not on the table. until they actually get to the table, until you actually start seeing what that deal is going to look like, they can basically paint them with think color they want to. well, we re going to see what happens because this is just the beginning, but boy is it going up and up and up. julie, brendan, thank you so much. we ll talk again. pennsylvania senator john fetterman spent a second night in th
the republican rift over entitlements appears to be getting worse by the hour. just a short time ago in florida, senator rick scott ripped into senate minority leader mitch mcconnell blasting him for, quote, backing up president biden who scott claims is mischaracterizing his position on social security and medicare. it comes after mcconnell made the rare move of going against his fellow republican senator disowning scott s plan to sunset government programs every five years including entitlements. that was the scott plan, that s not a republican plan. that was the rick scott plan. the republican plan, as i pointed out last fall, if we were to become the majority there were no plans to raise taxes on half the american people or to sunset medicare or social security. so it s clearly the rick scott plan. it is not the republican plan.
going to be able to confront kevin mccarthy with what happened in that room last night. yeah, and if you notice from that video, when kamala harris stands up to applaud that line, kevin mccarthy initially does nothing. and then he ends up applauding, but sitting down. so, maybe that s half a commitment. [laughter] i don t know. but we got him on video applauding the line, we re not going to touch medicare and social security. and so, i think that s going to be an awfully hard one for him to back away from. plus his own words, saying that in his meeting with president biden at the white house, they agreed, or he agreed, medicare and social security are off the table in terms of negotiations with respect to the debt ceiling extension. so, i agree with you. i think president biden was pretty clever in locking them in. and i think it s going to be awfully difficult to ever get out of that, that lock box.