Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) left the internet stunned on Thursday when he suggested that Americans should work seven days a week.
Scott made the comment during a Fox News interview about a new bipartisan tariff measure.
"Americans work five days a week, the minimum we ought to work is seven days a week," Scott said. "I'm a business guy. Business people have to work every day. We need to work every day to get this stuff done."
Social media users reacted to the remark.
Lawyer and veteran Don Dechert wrote on Bluesky that he took umbrage with the word "we."
"The non-royal we; the common folk," Dechert wrote. "You know, like us. The people who aren't senators or didn't dodge the medicare fraud with no jail time."
Jesse Schoolnik, former Senate staff and nonprofit lobbyist, wrote on X that Scott's own source of employment presented a problem.
"A member of Congress saying everyone else doesn't work enough," Schoolnik wrote. "I'd laugh if I didn't want to cry."
Added progressive political commentator Megan McCollough, "Says the guy who works 4 days a week (sometimes)."
"Yeah if it were up to him and his billionaire donors people would work every day, no holidays, no sick days, no health insurance, no benefits no nothing. He’s a walking poster for why unions and organized labour are so important," user MMorden, a political commentator with more than 20,000 followers, wrote on Bluesky.
"He’s so full of s---," liberal commentator Kim Heine wrote on Bluesky.
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