I just don't understand why people vote against their interests....

Mitch McConnell continued to hit Rick Scott's agenda from last year over its possible impacts on Social Security and Medicare. 

"Unfortunately, that was the Scott plan. That's not a Republican plan," McConnell said on Kentucky radio. 

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell continued to hit back at Sen. Rick Scott's (R-Fla.) proposed governing agenda that would appear to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block unless reauthorized.

"It's just a bad idea. I think it will be a challenge for him to deal with this in his own reelection in Florida — a state with more elderly people than any other state in America."

— McConnell to the "Terry Meiners" show in Kentucky

McConnell added: "Unfortunately, that was the Scott plan. That's not a Republican plan. That was the Rick Scott plan."

Scott's plan, unveiled to POLITICO last year, includes the phrase: "All federal legislation sunsets in 5 years. If a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again." President Joe Biden referred to this — without naming Scott by name — to highlight threats to Social Security and Medicare in his State of the Union address. (The White House has since named him.)

McConnell, of course, beat back a challenge from Scott, who ran the National Republican Senatorial Committee during the party's disappointing 2022 cycle, to lead Senate Republicans for another term.

The Kentucky Republican leader's comments did not go unnoticed by at least one close aide to Scott.