The GOP-majority House leadership's attempt to force through a budget bill that would gut support and protections for the poor, coming on the heels of billionaire Elon Musk boasting about government cuts, is handing the Democratic party a major gift.
That is the opinion on MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough who admitted he is stunned, as a former GOP House member himself, at how tone-deaf the party has become.
Discussing the battle between GOP hardliners who want to slash and burn and their colleagues who are concerned about next year's midterms, Scarborough claimed the optics are horrific for the party in power.
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"I mean, this is, it's ghastly," he told his panel. "You have the richest billionaire in the world, a chainsaw-wielding South African immigrant coming to America wielding a chainsaw, doesn't understand our government, doesn't understand how it works, obviously from a lot of things he tweets he doesn't understand the constitution and the richest man in the world decides he's going to show fiscal prudence by taking food out of the mouths of the poorest starving children on the planet."
"I mean, it's just what's happening," he added. "I mean, the idea, the idea that they're going after USAID to cut the budget, 'The money's just not there, rounding error.' And they're desperate to figure out how to give tax cuts to the richest people, billionaires, multinational corporations like people who run tech monopolies."
"I mean, you couldn't make this up!" he exclaimed. "Like a Democrat who would say this, nobody would believe that this would happen. It is happening and Republicans are setting themselves up like dominoes to be knocked down."
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