{"id":1470661,"date":"2022-05-10T17:29:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T21:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470661"},"modified":"2022-05-10T17:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T21:29:41","slug":"are-there-any-fox-reporter-corners-psaki-over-biden-claim-that-gop-majority-support-rick-scotts-plan-they-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-there-any-fox-reporter-corners-psaki-over-biden-claim-that-gop-majority-support-rick-scotts-plan-they-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Are There Any?\u2019: Fox Reporter Corners Psaki Over Biden Claim That GOP \u2018Majority\u2019 Support Rick Scott\u2019s Plan (They Don\u2019t)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fare-there-any-fox-reporter-corners-psaki-over-biden-claim-that-gop-majority-support-rick-scotts-plan-they-dont%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470661&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1240582956.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fox News Correspondent Alexandria Hoff challenged Press Secretary Jen Psaki directly over President Joe Biden\u2019s claim that a majority of Republicans were in favor of a plan proposed by Senator Rick Scott (R-FL).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo today the president said that a\u00a0majority of Republicans have signed on to Sen. Scott\u2019s tax plan. That does not seem to be the case,\u201d Hoff began, noting that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guypbenson\/status\/1524065017980764161\">Senator Scott<\/a> had said as much earlier in the day. \u201cSenator McConnell had said that the party is not behind this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre there any Republicans that you can think of that the president might be referencing that is currently behind this?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Psaki: &#8220;Do you count the chairman of the Republican committee as an important Republican?&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexandriaHoff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlexandriaHoff<\/a>: &#8220;He is the chairman of a committee, but if no other Republican \u2013&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Psaki: &#8220;She\u2026[S]he is the chairman of the\u2026party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hoff: &#8220;I thought you were referring to\u2026Scott&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ofS7cLprzt\">pic.twitter.com\/ofS7cLprzt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1524103305420582912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDo you count the chairman of the Republican committee as an important Republican?\u201d Psaki countered with a question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is the chairman of a committee, but if no other Republican \u2014\u201d Hoff pushed back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe \u2014 it\u2019s actually a she \u2014 is the chairman of the party,\u201d Psaki clarified<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought you were referring to Scott there,\u201d Hoff replied.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki went on to claim that because GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel had praised Scott\u2019s plan and no other Republican had offered an alternative, the assumption was that Scott\u2019s plan was the only thing Republicans had going forward.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fox&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexandriaHoff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlexandriaHoff<\/a>: &#8220;They say one was coming this summer and, as far as Senator Scott goes, he acknowledged today that a majority is not behind him. He says this is his individual plan for this. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vOhsoz6oJB\">pic.twitter.com\/vOhsoz6oJB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1524104105597317123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey did say one was coming in the summer and, as far as Senator Scott goes, he acknowledged today that a majority is not behind him. He says this is his individual plan for this,\u201d Hoff said again.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has been claiming for days that Senator Scott\u2019s plan is a reflection of the Republican Party\u2019s plan going into the 2022 midterm elections, tweeting late last week, \u201cSenator Rick Scott released an Ultra-MAGA Agenda. It could raise taxes on 75 million American families. Under this new plan, while big corporations and billionaires would pay nothing more, working-class folks are going to pay a hell of a lot more.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Senator Rick Scott released an Ultra-MAGA Agenda.<\/p>\n<p>It could raise taxes on 75 million American families. <\/p>\n<p>Under this new plan, while big corporations and billionaires would pay nothing more, working-class folks are going to pay a hell of a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1521999366898298882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since declaring Scott the author of the newly-coined \u201cUltra-MAGA Agenda,\u201d Biden and Psaki have been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/you-can-do-both-psaki-insists-biden-can-unify-america-while-attacking-ultra-maga-crowd\/\">harping on that<\/a> and accusing other Republicans of being a part of it \u2014 despite the fact that Scott himself told Fox News on Tuesday that the majority of the party was not in favor of his plan and that he was open to the suggestions of others.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also declared the plan a non-starter in the Senate \u2014 six weeks ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The President today claimed that Sen. Rick Scott (not from Wisconsin) has a plan to raise taxes that is now \u201cthe Congressional Republican plan.\u201d In fact, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell rejected that plan 6 weeks ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j9lgAkULTI\">https:\/\/t.co\/j9lgAkULTI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidAsmanfox\/status\/1524121421773000704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy also stated that his midterm agenda in the House would not reflect Scott\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;d be easy to report that all Republicans are on board with Scott&#8217;s plan, but that wouldn&#8217;t be true. There&#8217;s a huge debate. For instance, McConnell and McCarthy are not on board: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ya5GqUi9g3\">pic.twitter.com\/ya5GqUi9g3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilipWegmann\/status\/1524080035312852992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News Correspondent Alexandria Hoff challenged Press Secretary Jen Psaki directly over President Joe Biden\u2019s claim that a majority of Republicans were in favor of a plan proposed by Senator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1482429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}