'It's definitely sabotage': Analyst accuses Trump of intentionally 'destabilizing' country

Donald Trump was outright accused of trying to sabotage not only the U.S. government but also the economy by MSNBC contributor and Bulwark editor Sam Stein on Thursday morning.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski who listed off several new moves made by the Trump administration with an able assist from Elon Musk's un-official Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), characterized what she has witnessing as "self-sabotage," Stein to piled on.

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With co-host Brzezinski suggesting Trump's plans seem to "sort of tank the economy and increase unemployment," Stein replied, "Well, it's definitely sabotage and you read the setbacks that the administration has suffered and people might say, 'Well that's good, right?' Like some of these cuts are being reversed, these people are going to get jobs."

"But the idea that this hasn't had a profound destabilizing impact is just not true," he continued. "So let's just take the NIH indirect costs cap. Yes, it's been put on hold by courts but I've talked to people across multiple universities who are not hiring graduate assistants or faculty members in anticipation or just because of being prudent that that cap might be reinstated, right?"

"If you're looking, if you're a university and you say, 'Oh my god, yeah, it's fine for now, but in a month I may have to give up tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars in direct cost support from the government. I can't hire people right now,'" he reported.

"End even if they were to rehire people, there are other contractors that depend on to do their work who are still fired. So all this is haphazard, messy, whatever adjective you want to apply to it," he added. "It is a terribly inefficient way to run the government."

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