The trio of PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks tried to have it both ways on Friday. The three men attacked the GOP’s Big Beautiful Bill for its negative effects on the deficit, but also its spending cuts, meaning PBS either wants to raise most people's taxes, but is too afraid to say so or they want a bill with even higher deficits.
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Again, PBS would lose its collective mind if Republicans started cutting budgets like Calvin Coolidge, but as it was, Bennett returned to Capehart and wondered, “Is there an opening here for Democrats, especially on the health care and the Medicaid cuts? Because that's a playbook that Democrats know. That's how they won back the House in 2018, really going after Republicans who tried to roll back the Affordable Care Act.”
Capehart doubled down on citing conservative budget hawks to enhance his liberal arguments, “Absolutely. It'd be malpractice if Democrats weren't already running against Republicans, vulnerable Republicans. Look, the president and the speaker made vulnerable Republicans cast a really bad vote for a bill that, sure, it passed the House, but is going to go to the Senate and is going to come back to them completely unrecognizable, thus giving Democrats all the material they need to hammer away at those House Republicans.”
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