'Never heard of a dumber plan': Morning Joe rips Mike Johnson's 'grotesque' new proposal

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough hammered new House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for tying Israel aid to spending cuts for the IRS in a new spending bill.

House Republicans released a new spending bill Monday that includes $14.3 billion in emergency aid for Israel offset by cuts to IRS funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, and the "Morning Joe" host bashed Johnson for jeopardizing Israel's security to help wealthy tax cheats evade consequences.

"Did anybody ever hear Mike Johnson holding up a bill under Donald Trump because it wasn't paid for?" Scarborough said. "In all of the $8 trillion, he just opened the door, 'Here, just drive the trucks through,' of debt – $1 billion, $2 billion, Mike Johnson, $3 billion, $5 billion, $7 billion, $8 billion, $8 billion Mike Johnson and Donald Trump gave America in debt, and suddenly, he won't even help Jews protect themselves. It is so gross, and, making it even grosser, he says, 'This is what we're going to do – we'll protect the Jews if you protect the billionaires. We want billionaire tax cheats to get away with stealing more money from the American people. We'll let you protect the Jews, Joe Biden, but you have to let us protect our donors, our billionaire donors that are tax cheats.'"

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"I've never, truly, heard of a dumber plan to start a speakership than to put Jews' lives in danger so you could protect billionaire tax cheats, and he knows, he knows this is never going to pass," Scarborough added. "They're not going to let billionaires continue to cheat on their taxes. He knows this, yet that's what he said. 'We'll let you, Joe Biden, protect the Jews, let Democrats protect the Jews, but you have to let us Republicans protect billionaire tax cheats.' It's just so grotesque."

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