Stephanie Ruhle took shots at Republicans in their Congressional struggle between a government shutdown and raising spending during her segment on Thursday during The 11th Hour. Claiming their tactics of running the government like a business as incomplete, Ruhle made digs towards the party’s choice in cutting programs. Though David Drucker provided pushback explaining the eventual need for government cuts, Ruhle replied with petty insinuations, including the cartoonish claim they’re fine with kids dying of cancer.
As the news focuses on the potential of another government shutdown, the blame has been thrown especially at the Republican Party. Yet Drucker points out the impossible balance of cutting the Government's spending in relation to constituent sentiments:
It’s because voters don't want to touch spending. They want to cut spending that goes to other people, but they don't think it's necessary. And those other people, Stephanie, want to cut spending that goes to other people that they don't think is necessary. And you have 435 members of congress plus the 100 senators, and they all have constituents, they were all elected, they all feel like they have whatever mandate they feel they have to continue spending the money that they either promised to spend, not cut the money they said they wouldn’t cut(...)
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