Scott Jennings humiliated Democrat strategist Paul Begala throughout a dialogue on reducing Medicaid for illegals by reminding him of his personal get together’s strategy.
Begala tried to slam Republicans, nevertheless it rapidly backfired.
Begala: It’s going to be a wipeout to your get together, Scott, should you guys lower Medicaid for the individuals who voted for you.
Jennings: We’re not reducing Medicaid for the individuals who voted for us. We’re reducing Medicaid for the individuals who vote for Democrats, the unlawful aliens. That’s who we’re reducing Medicaid for. Look, we’re reducing…..the one factor we’re reducing right here is taxes.
Begala: (unhinged laughter)
CNN reporter: Simply to be clear, in case you are undocumented in America, you can’t vote.
Jennings: Why are you combating so exhausting to guard welfare advantages for unlawful aliens?
Begala: For individuals who don’t vote for me? As a result of I really love my nation greater than my get together.
Jennings: Why would a Democrat combat so exhausting to maintain unlawful aliens on welfare?
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CNN’s @ScottJenningsKY to Paul Begala: “We’re not reducing Medicaid for the individuals who voted for us. We’re reducing Medicaid for the individuals who vote for Democrats, the unlawful aliens. That’s who we’re reducing Medicaid for. Look, we’re reducing — the one factor we’re reducing right here is… pic.twitter.com/BgPPYJgjjN
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Begala appeared to overlook his personal get together’s strategy to Medicaid reform, however Jennings was there to remind him.
Begala: Additionally, there’s one thing within the Republican DNA. Okay, should you’re a Republican, Congress, you lie awake at evening, unable to sleep, frightened that someplace, somebody who’s a working particular person is getting well being care. This would be the greatest lower in Medicaid in American historical past. Medicaid may be very standard. By the best way, Republicans carried folks on Medicaid. They gained their votes. That is what will get me. Good politicians reward individuals who vote for them. Nice politicians attain out to individuals who didn’t vote for them and produce them in. However silly politicians punish their voters. This invoice is a political suicide word for the Republican Occasion. Final time they tried this, the Democrats gained 41 Home seats after Trump’s first midterm. They’ll exceed that this time. 489 days. They’ll do higher than 41 seats. That is absolute loss of life knell for the Home Republicans. Possibly Senate, too.
Jennings: I ought to have began my remarks by thanking you as a result of it was President Invoice Clinton within the ’90s that considered work necessities for Medicaid, which is all….
Begala: However two-thirds of individuals in Medicaid already work.
Jennings: Which is all we’re doing right here.
Begala: They already do it. They already do it. We did it. As you stated, we did it within the ’90s.
Jennings: If you wish to stand up and go to work, you’re going to get your Medicaid. For those who’re an unlawful alien, you’re not going to get your Medicaid.
It’s generational welfare reform constructed in your all’s concepts. So I thanks. I sincerely thanks.
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CNN Democrat Paul Begala claims there “one thing in Republican DNA” that makes them “lie awake at evening, unable to sleep, frightened that someplace somebody who’s a working particular person is getting well being care.”
Scott Jennings colleges Begala by reminding him that Invoice Clinton thought up… pic.twitter.com/yBMAwCXvJS— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 1, 2025
