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we bipartisanly passed the respect for marriage act. don t say we can t get along. years ago, i wrote with great consternation, but we ve reauthorized it again, the violence against women act. the electoral reform act. folks, we did that in a bipartisan way, democrats and republicans did it. i don t know why they don t acknowledge any part of what s making the country again, but in addition, we passed the american rescue plan. the inflation reduction act, and the people sent a clear message. fighting for the sake of fighting gets us nowhere. there s things that we ve got to get things done. that s always been my vision for the country, and i think that s what the american people said in this off year election. yesterday i went to wisconsin, nice and warm like down here. [ laughter ] to talk about how we re building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. i m so tired of trickle-down economy. not allowed to trick down at my dad s table when we re growing up. ....
Know that a lot of republicans, their dream is to cut social security and medicare. let me say this, if that s your dream, i m your nightmare. . by the way, that may be redundant. i think they already think that i am, but 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. and look, when i called republicans out on this on the state of the union, and they started yelling liar not all, but started yelling liar, liar, i said, so that means y all are for keeping social security? and they all stood up and said, yeah, skand i said, well, we ve got a deal! take these cuts off the table. i sure hope so. i really hope so. they stood up, the vast majority ....
Leadership, but i think rick scott is as much an irritant and a thorn on republicans side as he is to joe biden. he is frankly not a thorn on joe biden s side, he s a gift that keeps on giving to joe biden. and he s been confronted about his plan, which is in writing, not only by democrats, not only by joe biden, but by fox news. by people in his own party. ana s certainly the florida expert, but i worked on rick scott s campaign in 2010 and he campaigned on jobs, jobs, jobs. he is by no means and by no stretch of the imagination the face of the republican party on this issue. you need to listen to kevin mccarthy who told president bush at or president biden at the white house that these programs are not on the chopping block. he s the face of the republican party, as well as mitch mcconnell. well, just ask mitch mcconnell what he thinks about rick scott, and that ll give you ....
Now that he is the face of, trust us, we ll protect medicare, seems problematic for republicans, even with the speaker saying, we re not going to cut social security and medicare. it is problematic for republicans. which is why you ve heard the minority leader, mitch mcconnell say, this is not representative of republicans. but i could not figure out first of all, i don t know how in the world we made him the governor of florida. it s an indictment on us in florida that that happened. this is one of the most awkward men, poor communicators, strange duck, who basically put in hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money to buy himself elected office. and he has achieved it. but then it was republicans in the senate who made him the face, the chair of the republican campaign arm in the senate. a huge mistake. he then had the gumption to try to contest mitch mcconnell s ....
Behavior, and by putting rick scott of all people, but putting him out front and behaving the way they did, they served this up to the president? first, victor, i think the behavior, the heckling of the president during the state of the union was unacceptable. but as far as this issue, look, rick scott wrote this up in a plan that is not collecting dust in washington, d.c. the most important thing is we have mitch mcconnell, who says, republicans are not going to cut medicare and social security. we have the leader the speaker of the house, kevin mck mccarthy who says, this is not what we re talking about. you talk to republicans here in washington, d.c., they are not looking to cut social security and medicare. that is completely off the table. here s what s happening. is that president biden is really using this as a fake argument. this is a false foil. and he certainly would much rather talk about something that is not true than run on his record, which many americans are not sa ....