Joe Scarborough slams Senate GOP for upending 'one-sixth of the economy' just to get to tax reform
Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough on Tuesday slammed Senate Republicans for being willing to jam through the health-care bill just to get to the next legislative battle. "You talk to these jackasses behind closed doors and you go 'what are you doing' and they go 'we've got to get to the tax bill so we've got to do this first,'" Scarborough said, marveling at the fact that some lawmakers were willing to change "one-sixth of the economy so we can get to a tax bill."
Scarborough also took a swipe at President Trump. "There is no attempt to hide the fact that Donald Trump is breaking every promise he made and that they will have a disproportionate — in fact hurting — older, middle-income Americans," he said, referring to the bill's massive cuts to Medicaid.
Trump has promised not to cut Medicaid funding, but the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated Monday that the Senate health-care bill would slash funding for Medicaid by $772 billion over the next decade. "Grandma and grandpa are coming home to live on the couch downstairs," said Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnacle. "Thrown out of the nursing home."
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