Biden plan of attack in key speech on inflation already rated a ‘false claim’ by WaPo

New polling prepared for the America First Policy Institute by RMG Research Group showed that “issues such as inflation, immigration, crime, the war in Ukraine” are important to American people ahead of the midterms, and further found that the Supreme Court possibly overturning Roe v. Wade “will likely have only a modest impact, if any” on the election.

President Biden is expected to address the issue of record inflation Tuesday in a speech, understanding that it’s a key economic concern for voters — a recent CNN poll found 8 in 10 Americans said the federal government wasn’t doing enough to curb inflation, and a majority said the president’s policies have hurt the economy. Biden’s plan is to contrast his plans to lower costs to the plans of congressional Republicans — see Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla.

“He’ll detail his plan to fight inflation and lower costs for working families, and contrast his approach with Congressional Republicans’ ultra-MAGA plan to raise taxes on 75 million American families and threaten to sunset programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid,” a White House official told CNN on Sunday.

But Biden is being less than honest in making such a comparison, with even The Washington Post fact-checkers giving him a false rating here.

Scott released a 60-page “11-point plan to rescue America” earlier this year that offers 128 proposals. The GOP senator said in an introductory letter that his plan “is not for the faint of heart,” with Scott declaring, “All Americans should pay some income tax to have skin in the game, even if a small amount. Currently over half of Americans pay no income tax.”

In a tweet shared in April, Biden said “congressional Republicans now want to raise taxes on middle class families,” and the official White House Twitter account shared the expected results of some of the proposals in Scott’s plan.

The Post declared Biden’s claim not true.

“Scott’s tax plan is certainly ripe for political fodder, but the White House is pushing its luck here,” the paper said. “Scott is a Republican, and he is in Congress and part of the GOP leadership. But his snippet of an idea, such as it is, cannot be labeled a “congressional Republican” plan. No legislation has been crafted, and no other Republican lawmakers have announced their support.

“One cannot instantly assume every person in a political party supports a proposal by a prominent member.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was quick to denounce Scott’s plan in March, warning of the very thing Biden is attempting to do. The liberal media was eager to report on the friction within the GOP.

“We will not have as part of our agenda a bill that raises taxes on half the American people and sunsets Social Security and Medicare within five years,” McConnell said. “That will not be part of the Republican Senate Majority agenda. We will focus instead on what the American people are concerned about: inflation, energy, defense, the border and crime.”

McConnell’s remarks being almost a mirror image of what polling showed this week.

Sen. Scott, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, would also make it clear that the plan was his alone.

“This is what Rick Scott believes in, it’s not the Republican plan,” he told The Hill the day after McConnell’s remarks. “I was very clear that it’s Rick Scott’s policy ideas. It’s nobody else’s policy ideas.”

Tom Tillison

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