‘Empty Noise’: Alyssa Farah Griffin Dismisses Democrats’ Attacks on Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former White House communications director for Donald Trump turned political commentator and The View co-host,  dismissed Democrats’ messaging strategy to tank Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” on CNN Wednesday morning.

After anchor Kate Bolduan asserted that the Congressional Budget Office score for the bill is “not looking good,” Griffin, a vocal critic of her old boss, jumped in.

“So I think, If I may, no one’s sitting around their kitchen table talking about CBO scores,” observed Griffin as Bolduan and Shermichael Singleton laughed. “Republicans realize that, and I think they realize as long as in six months they can go around to their districts and say, ‘Hey we extended the Trump tax cuts, we got this energy policy through that’s lowering costs for Americans,’ that’s what people are going to care about.”

“I do think the Democrats have a decent messaging line if they talk about the work requirements around SNAP and benefits,” she continued. “But again, it’s-, there’s kind of been so much posturing if they’re going to slash this, if they’re gonna slash this ,until people feel it, I feel like it can kind of feel like empty noise from the Dems.”

“I agree a hundred and fifty percent, and if you’re a Democrat I think you have to be careful here,” concurred Singleton. “Because from Republicans, I would argue we could frame this as: if you’re an able-bodied person should that person go out and work? Most people would say, ‘Well, hell yeah, Kate. They should work.’ We’re not saying that if you don’t make enough beyond a certain threshold, that you shouldn’t still be able to tap into a safety net.”

“But they’ve also got millions of people who are going to lose benefits. They can lean on that,” argued Bolduan.

“They can, but I just don’t know how effective that’s going to be when the average person is saying, ‘I’m working my butt off everybody else should also be out there working,'” replied Singleton.

Watch above via CNN.

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