The White House replied to the Senate Republican Campaign Committee Chairman’s vision for the Republican Party’s future on Tuesday.
“This strategy is not for the faint of heart,” said Rick Scott, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, according to CNN.
In the proposal, which he claims was funded by his campaign and not the NRSC, Trump recommends finishing his border wall and naming it after former President Barack Obama.
Also, he wants all Americans to pay some income tax.
“Senate Republicans just presented an economic plan that does not include a single concept to cut prices for the middle class,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki tweeted Tuesday.
In this backdrop, Scott’s plan exploits the Republican Party’s so-called parental rights narrative since Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s victory in Virginia last year.
Scott, for example, demands that all students say the Pledge of Allegiance and stand for the National Anthem.
Scott argues “public schools will educate our children to adore America because it is distinctive and great in an often-dark world.”
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The Republican senator claims that Americans would not be obliged to specify their race, ethnicity, or skin color on official forms under the GOP administration.
Republicans have used the “defund the cops” campaign to criticize Democrats, often linking them to rising crime rates.
Scott makes a similar case for tougher penalties for theft and severe crimes, as well as full police funding.
Scott, like the GOP during the 2020 campaign, said socialism “will be seen as a foreign adversary that attempts to undermine our prosperity and freedom.”
He ties that message to a plan to shrink the federal government by 25% in five years and sell off government facilities and assets.
The president wants Congress members to serve no longer than 12 years.
“Government officials” should be exempt.
Despite his aim for more Americans to pay taxes, Scott wants to “immediately reduce IRS money and manpower by 50%.”
Trump’s misleading claims about mail-in votes and his allegation that the 2020 election was stolen from him have weakened voting rights across the country.
Scott says same-day voter registration and unattended ballot drop boxes in public places should be banned, and ballot counting should be done “in full public view.”
Through his support for “the nuclear family” and his opposition to transgender women and girls participating in sports teams that represent their gender identification, Scott reflects a Republican social agenda that is increasingly widespread in Republican-led states.
We will “reject both the founders and adherents of cancel culture in the United States,” Scott said, repeating Trump’s usual language, which includes penalising social media firms that censor content “like publishers and subject to legal action.”
The Obama administration imposed further sanctions on Russia on Tuesday in response to its actions in eastern Ukraine.
