'Very stark': MSNBC host highlights 'telling' part of GOP congressmen flipping
There was one "very telling" thing about the way GOP lawmakers flipped on Donald Trump's megabill, according to one journalist.
MSNBC host Ali Vitali was on air first thing Thursday morning to report on the so-called "big, beautiful" bill that is scheduled to be passed soon.
According to Vitali, the fact that Republican congressmen flipped for Trump, and received nothing in return, was "stark."
Vitali said the flipping was "less reading the bill and more reading the political tea leaves here."
"The fact that Republican leadership... were regularly warning about the fact that they wouldn't want to be the ones left in the White House's crosshairs if they were to vote against this bill, and I think momentum has a real role to play here," she added. "The idea of this July 4th deadline... it's amazing that it stuck because it's fake. It's not a deadline. Unlike the debt ceiling, for example, that would have had a hard date in the middle of August and thusly really put pressure on members to do it to avoid financial catastrophe for the country, this is a fake deadline that they were able to hold to regardless, and they were able to flip members not by giving them anything."
She continued:
"And it seems that Johnson learned something from his predecessor, speaker McCarthy, on the giving away the store in the process of negotiating towards what you want. That's a lesson, clearly from that. But the idea that people flipped and they actually got nothing, I think is really stark and really telling here."