Joe Scarborough Urges Dems to ‘Take the Win’ on Shutdown Deal, Argues Trump Admin ‘Exposed’ Itself

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough slammed Democrats’ “wringing of hands” after a late-night deal struck Sunday to end the government shutdown and, instead, urged the party to “take the win” — arguing the process “exposed” the Trump administration’s priorities.

Eight members of the Democratic caucus ignited fury from some quarters of the party after voting for the resolution to end the 40-day shutdown, the longest in U.S. history.

Democrats claimed they were holding out to force the extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that lapse at the end of the year. The deal promises a vote on the matter next month.

With few believing that the ACA vote would pass, backlash came from prominent Democrats, like California Governor Gavin Newsom, and congressional lawmakers who were furious that the resolution had passed.

Speaking on Monday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough told Democrats that the Republican Party and Trump admin had “exposed” themselves as allied to “billionaires” — pushing for tax cuts for the “richest of the rich” while “working overtime” to take “food assistance from working Americans”:

This is just Democrats, I get it, they have the best week that they’ve had in a year and a half and then fear and loathing and the wringing of hands because they may reopen the government because, yes, there are some Democrats who understand that people are going hungry. And what have they done?

They have found out and they have exposed a White House that is working overtime to give tax cuts to billionaires at the same time they’re working overtime to take SNAP assistance, to take food assistance, from working Americans. And this has exposed just how much the Republican party hates the idea of helping working Americans, helping middle class Americans, who are struggling with health care.

Scarborough continued to argue that Democrats had secured “massive” and “historic” election wins in the last week that even MAGA loyalist Steve Bannon acknowledged had “erased ten years of Republican gains in one night”:

So all this fear and loathing and all this whining, I wish Democrats, for once, just once, could take a win and then understand the Republicans, they were never going to help working Americans – they learned that through this process.

So, you know who else learned that through this process? The American voter!

Donald Trump was exposed and the administration was exposed and Republicans were exposed as the party that fought like hell to give tax cuts to billionaires, to multinational corporations, to the richest of the rich. And we learned just last week they were trying to extend those tax cuts to even more billionaires, to give them even bigger tax cuts. At the same time they were fighting like hell to stop working Americans from getting basic food assistance and just a helping hand, just a little helping hand with our health care costs.

So, yeah, the government shutdown is going to come to an end but the reality of what this Republican party stands for today, the reality of what Donald Trump was fighting for this past week, that will stay with voters for years to come.

Rounding on the same Democrats later in the show, Scarborough jibed that those protesting loudest were “posing to try to be posing so they can look tougher for their presidential run in 2028.”

He added that “Democratic voters are going to be seeing who stays united and who tears the party apart.”

Watch above via MSNBC.