Hannity and Hawley attack MAGA Mike over his spending bill

Trump and Musk blew up the bipartisan agreement To avoid a government shutdown before Christmas, we now have Republicans eating their own and Hannity trying to tell us that a government shutdown isn’t really that bad.

Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley made an appearance on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox this Wednesday, and here’s the spin they’re trying to put on this debacle and the damage Trump, Musk and the Republicans will inflict to our economy even before Trump did it. desk.

They know very well that Trump plans to explode the deficit with even more massive tax cuts once he takes office, which will mean raising the debt ceiling, and they are trying to understand the need to do so. raise next year. on Biden.

Hawley also attacked GOP leaders for negotiating in good faith with Democrats, claiming that’s not how government is supposed to work when Congress is divided and margins are narrow in the House.

HANNITY: You know, I’m looking at this monstrosity. I went through a lot of these provisions, you know, 1,550 pages. Nobody had time to read it. It’s because they don’t want to do their job and pass the budgets before October 1, which is the deadline, and that’s no surprise.

We’re in this situation, and if I’m Donald Trump, I don’t want this debt ceiling while I’m in office. This is Joe Biden’s debt ceiling increase. It shouldn’t be Donald Trump’s.

If Hakeem Jeffries doesn’t want to come to a consensus, then shut him up. You know what, I think it’s a mistake to say that a government shutdown is the worst thing in the world. We survived a 30+ day shutdown in 2019.

Note to Sean Hannity. They reached a consensus and Trump, once again, made it explode.

HAWLEY: You know, Sean, this resolution continues, whatever it is, it’s a complete joke. You’re right, it’s 1,500 pages of pork barrel spending, and worse than that, it’s all woke garbage.

These are the censorship boards. They are funded for this. This bill provides hundreds of millions of dollars for a recycling access center.

I mean, it’s a total offense and you pointed out that there was also the pay raise for members of Congress. There is Obamacare reserved for members of Congress.

Here’s what really gets me. The Republicans negotiated this. The Speaker of the House negotiated this bill. It’s a real parody.

This needs to change, Sean. I mean, we can’t continue like this, and I hope that Republican leaders have understood the message here, the message of this election, that people want change. They don’t want this garbage.

I am emphatically no on this. It’s a joke. This is a travesty and they need to go back to square one.

HANNITY: Well, it’s the old swampy way of doing things. There’s going to be a new sheriff in town, and when Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy want to cut spending by $2 trillion, I think they’re serious about it, and I think Donald Trump is serious about it, too. subject.

There will be a lot of cuts and the old way of doing things must go if you want to return and transform constitutional order, limited government and greater freedom.

Will we get there, or is this proof that it won’t be achievable, especially with the tight margins we have in the House and Senate?

HAWLEY: Well, you can’t do that by doing business that way. I mean, it’s, it’s the same old, same old.

You talk about the need to cut all of this spending, Sean, this bill would add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit, and the worst part is that it all serves only dark priorities.

Why would you force this terrible spending bill on Donald Trump before he even takes office? And Sean, the worst part is he throws it in his lap in March, in March.

Under this bill, they would shut down the government again, have to start all over again, and raise the debt ceiling again later the same year. It’s ridiculous. It’s a horrible plan.

I can’t believe Republican leaders ever cooked this up. Obviously, they haven’t talked to Trump about this, and I tell you, we need to take a serious look at who’s running this Congress, because if that’s the best they can do, I mean, it’s just total incompetence. It’s a disaster.

HANNITY: The, the, the, the best case scenario, given that they didn’t do their job, would be a clean CR. Democrats say they won’t support that. So we’re at a dead end, right?

I don’t see any way out of this.

HAWLEY: I think that’s true. I mean, unless the government shuts down on Friday, and besides, that was also the Republican leadership’s choice.

They could very well have done it and extended it longer, which is what Donald Trump wanted. They said, “Oh no, no, no, we’ll come back and do it in December.”

Why did they want to do it in December, Sean, so they could put us up against the wall and try to get all their special projects and their favorite projects and expenses done.

And now they’ve been caught in the act and now they don’t have a plan. Well, it’s their fault.

Mike Johnson and his team need to understand this. They have to do the right thing, and I’m telling you it’s not right. What they are trying to do is a disaster. It belongs to them and they need to fix it.

HANNITY: Well, he’s already dead on arrival.

We’ll see what happens between now and Friday and how much Johnson wants to keep his job as president. I honestly don’t know why anyone would put up with this nonsense, although I don’t feel sorry for Johnson.