“Sen. Rick Scott “wants to … end Social Security and Medicare coverage.”
What PolitiFact found
Scott wrote a plan that called for ending all federal laws after 5 years unless Congress renewed. Social Security and Medicare would've been included under the wording, but after criticism he revised it to exclude both.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (Former Democratic U.S. Representative and current U.S. Senate candidate in Florida.) made this claim around 23 August 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 September 2023, 15 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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