florida governor ron desantis in iowa yes today, not mentioning donald trump by name, but still taking a few swipes at him. i think he was. we will show you what else he had to say about the front runner in the race for the republican nomination. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, may 31st. good to have your with us, along with joe, willie, and me. member of the new york times let s show jonathan really quick. okay, go, go. okay. we done this before. can we stop for a second? tj, i am scratching my face. you want to go to me now? and also, this historic day leave him alone. let s do jenna. hold on. cover me for a second, tj. okay. oh, we ve got jen. see, she can t even mess up! now now. good morning. okay. is my collar straight? thank you. let s actually get to work. hold on. when we do get to work, it s going to be a lot of fun, because i m going to get the yankees in a second, but these republicans will donald trump
Go to a chopper shot, but don t worry. but again, the hypocrisy is crazy. if you tell them the currency here, they say, we voted with you guys to raise the debt ceiling three times when we actually added spending, and now you are saying this is the end of the republic? i don t get it. one of the strange things about this, totally insane, is that it s clear that there are some people who came to washington not to run government, but actually to rake it. and so, you know, it s hard to wonders and why else you would hold the country hostage over something like the debt ceiling, which is essential to the function of our government. i know it s wonky, i know it s complicated, with this just should not be a political football. we need the government to continue to run. kevin mccarthy understands that, and there are republicans who understand this. obviously, the white house does as well. we shouldn t have even had to see a negotiation like this.
Bills. does everybody follow me here? they actually attached spending bills to raising the debt limit. they said, not only are we going to raise the debt ceiling to just where there is actually no ceiling, and not only are we not only going to attach cuts to it, but we republicans who are running this place, we are going to attach billion-dollar spending bills to the debt ceiling increase. i mean, the hypocrisy here there has to be i don t know, superduper calla fragile lipstick hypocrisy. it s hypocrisy squared here for these republicans who are suddenly so shocked and stunned that we are actually having to pay for all the spending and tax cut that they loaded onto the budget back from 2017
They are concerned about that. but, you know, you just don t feel within the country, and even within the republican base, the outrage that these freedom caucus members feel. and i think that s partly because even at the base level, we understand hypocrisy. even at the base level, they understand spending goes up under republican presidents. they pass the debt limit, this is kind of a manufactured crisis. yeah, yeah. manufactured crisis. it s all virtue signaling. let me repeat this, because it s not set enough, just like the wall. donald trump, i m going to build the wall, i m going to build the wall. he s presidents, he has a republican house, he has a republican tenant. what did they say? we are not going to build the wall. why? because is not going to work. it s almost like the alternative to healthcare. this is all virtue
When republicans are in the white house, whether it s george w. bush or w trump, suddenly they spend money more than anybody else in u.s. history. it s happened twice. it s a matter of numbers. they can t fake news their way out of it, they can t lie their way out of it. it s in the numbers. it s in donald trump s own treasury department numbers. and yet, jim, they say a reckoning is coming, this right the fact donald trump they said nothing with donald trump did this three times and actually attached spending bills onto them raising the debt limit with no limits. what hypocrisy. i don t really get it. even allowing for the hypocrisy that we are seeing from these house republicans, when democratic presidents are in charge, this is what they do. they hold the country hostage, this is what they do. but what i don t get is that there doesn t seem to be a the