'People don't care!' MAGA Republican repeatedly cut off on CNN

A CNN anchor repeatedly cut off a MAGA Republican as he kept repeating the same finger-pointing excuses about the government shutdown on Thursday, telling him, "People don't care!"

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) joined CNN anchor Brianna Keilar to discuss how Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are slated to be eliminated this weekend, as the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that nearly 8% of its total workforce has been furloughed during the shutdown.

Keilar cut off the veteran and former Army Ranger several times in the interview as he made claims blaming Democrats for the stalemate.

"This isn't a blue state or red state thing," Keilar said, cutting Davidson off.

"Can you gain this out for us? If we get to this weekend, open enrollment opens, right? And you have Americans starting to see the cost of their insurance premiums go up significantly without the [Affordable Care Act] subsidies that are expiring. And the Democrats are demanding be extended. That's kind of, you know, the hill they're dying on in this thing. Does that change the dynamic of this standoff as you see it?" Keilar asked.

"No, I mean, so let's be clear whose premiums are going up," Davidson said. "Everyone's subsidies that you're talking about are Obamacare subsidies from Covid that Democrats put on during Covid so that in the midst of a pandemic."

Then Keilar cut him off again.

"OK. But that doesn't — that's going to everyone's — I hear what you're saying, and I hear Republicans say that, congressman. But the fact is, people don't care," she said. "They look at the bottom line, they look at how much it costs them. They see a massive increase in their bottom line. That some argument about it being from Covid, while a great discussion for us to have, doesn't matter for someone, a Democrat or a Republican, right? They're going to see the cost increase. Does that increase the pressure?"

Apparently, it doesn't, Davidson said.

"It doesn't increase the pressure on me," he responded. "No Republicans ever voted for Obamacare. Obamacare for Democrats is working as it was designed to do. It was designed to administer a fatal overdose of government to America's health care economy. And it is. And it keeps failing. And the only way to keep it alive is to keep pumping more cash into it. And that raises the market price. The market price becomes the price plus the subsidies. And so everyone is feeling this pain. And it was by design that Obamacare did this. Republicans have said that all along. No Republican has ever voted for Obamacare. John McCain famously declined to get rid of it, but no Republican voted for these subsidies either. And even Democrats didn't have the votes to make them permanent when they put them in. So now they want Republicans to do what they fail to do. And by the way, this isn't the only thing that they're negotiating over. They say their whole 1.5 trillion package or nothing. So they want the whole thing."