Appearing on MSNBC to talk about Republican party's budget bill that made it to Donald Trump's desk on July 4th for a signing ceremony, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) laughed at the editors of the Wall Street Journal for "one of the dumbest editorials I've ever seen in my life" which happened to defend the GOP.
Speaking with host Ali Velshi, Smith called the bill that contains massive cuts for the poor and a windfall for the rich "immoral" before he brought up the Journal editorial.
Before calling the editorial "dumb," he told the MSNBC host, " So we're just perpetuating the tax cut for 2017," before singling out the Journal.
"They said, well, well, since this is a continuation of current baseline, you can't really count it against the deficit, but that's ––," he started as Velshi cut him off to interject, "Just weird math, right?"
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"That's just weird math," Smith agreed before adding, "It's idiotic math. I mean, the current baseline has us running a deficit of $1.6 trillion a year. So if you care about the debt, you by definition have to change the current baseline."
"And this is an action –– if we hadn't taken this action –– the debt would have gone down because we changed the law," he added. "These things were supposed to expire. So, I mean, that's just a ridiculous semantic argument that hides the economic and budget reality of what this bill is going to do."
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