“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough slammed a fist on the table during Thursday’s show as he slammed Elon Musk’s “ridiculous” DOGE cuts – like axing “food programs for poor kids” while keeping taxes low for billionaires.
“What we’re seeing with Elon Musk is cuts by chainsaw. There is no method to the madness,” the MSNBC anchor said as he spoke with a panel including his co-host and wife Mika Brzezinski, co-anchor Willie Geist and other guests. “It’s just cut first, and hurt Americans later.”
“I just gotta say,” he added as he slammed his fist on the table, “if you’re the Democratic party and you can’t win, you know, please go sell used cars because you’re in the wrong business.”
He ripped into DOGE’s “ridiculous” priorities, like keeping Social Security intact for “millionaires” and “billionaires” – but going after food programs for children living in poverty.
“They’re gonna take lunch – breakfast and lunch – away from poor kids. They will not take tax cuts away from billionaires,” Scarborough said.
The Department of Agriculture earlier this month said it was cutting two programs that provided $1 billion to schools to purchase healthy, locally-grown food for students. One of those cut programs funded free meals for food banks and other local groups to help underserved communities, according to the USDA.
“They’re billionaires, and they’re disconnected. Elon Musk is so radically disconnected,” Scarborough continued.
Scarborough’s rant followed reports that President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday afternoon dismantling the Department of Education, which has been a main target of Musk’s cost-slashing agenda.
Last month, Musk’s team announced nearly $900 million in cuts to the Education Department.
Scarborough argued that DOGE’s cuts “will not do anything to balance the budget,” boasting that he was in Congress when the budget was balanced for four years in a row under President Bill Clinton.
A former member of the Republican party, Scarborough served as a representative for Florida in the late 1990s.
