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Tuesday was the end of an era with Jim Acosta’s 18 years at CNN coming to an end with the showboater choosing to avoid a demotion to weekdays at midnight Eastern and jumping ship with a cartoonish commentary about not “bow[ing] down to a dictator” and not “giv[ing] into the lies.” In the roughly minutes before that, Acosta was unapologetically partisan and went full Homer Simpson dropping a match on the bridge while driving away in a convertible.
The nuttiest block was with purple-haired Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) where, on the spending pauses, he declared “say it ain’t so — well, it is so” and mocked voters for making the 2024 election about the economy as “smart people out there” when they’re actually getting policies that “tak[e] food off the table” (click “expand”):
Returning now to our top story, an overnight memo from the Trump administration ordering a sweeping pause on all federal grants and loans that could impact trillions of dollars in federal assistance for people in every state. Let’s bring in Democratic Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut. Congresswoman, great to see you. Thank you so much. I understand you’re the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee. What is going on with these programs that are going to be impacted by this? We were looking at a graphic earlier that showed Head Start, breakfast and lunch programs for needy children. Say it ain’t so well, it is so.
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Well, and you and Senator Patty Murray of Washington state wrote a letter to the White House saying, quote, we can put this on screen — “We write today to urge you in the strongest possible terms, to uphold the law and the Constitution and ensure all federal resources are delivered in accordance with the law.” And I guess you touched on this earlier, congresswoman, and for the folks at home, maybe help me explain this, when the Congress passes something, when they appropriate money to certain programs and that is signed into law by the President and yes, that may have been Joe Biden, now there’s a new president here. Another president can’t come in and just say, well, we’re throwing stuff out the window here. Wouldn’t you have to pass yet another law and have that law signed by the new President? If you want to get rid of head start and food stamps and all of those things, President Trump, you got to do this through the proper methods.
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Well, and that’s what — I was told by all the smart people in Washington that this election was about putting food on the table, the price of groceries, the price of eggs and meat and potato type issues. This is talking about taking meat and potatoes from the kids. This is about taking food off the table.