Former Republican strategist Tim Miller responded to GOP lawmakers telling reporters that President Donald Trump's government needs to be more deliberate, careful and compassionate about the massive cuts to government.
Miller's question: "What did you guys think you were signing up for?"
Trump has gutted the federal workforce while putting a huge freeze on grants and contracts previously signed. It has impacted communities across the country, which prompted backlash against Republican lawmakers.
MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace said the government cuts weren't done with "a scalpel. That was just a sledgehammer. I mean, I think that what Republicans have done to themselves is both deserved and incredibly revealing."
"You're just listening to that, and you're hearing these Republicans... [Sen. Lisa] Murkowski (AK) has acted pretty well in some of her votes. It's worth saying, but some of the others who voted for everything, [Sen. John] Thune (S.D.) and and [Sen. John] Curtis (UT) — like almost begging the administration to show even a little bit of humanity or compassion or respect, individual dignity of these workers. You know, it does make you want to say: what did you guys think you were signing up for, right?"
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He noted that for decades Trump has made it clear "he does not care at all about the humanity of anyone besides Donald Trump."
Meanwhile, Elon Musk, who has been serving as Trump's hatchetman, "certainly has not shown one shred of evidence that he cares about the humanity and dignity of the little people that that, you know, he doesn't know or care to learn about what it is that they did in the government."
He told Republicans, "This is the program that y'all signed up for. And if you don't, if you want to show compassion and humanity and dignity, then you're going to have to take power back from them because these guys aren't going to do it."
Begging them to won't work, he said.
"Like you might as well do nothing, right? Because asking Donald Trump and Elon Musk to show humanity is a fool's errand," he said.
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