“Morning Joe” hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough expressed their concerns Friday about President Trump and Elon Musk‘s plan to cut the number of employees at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Referencing Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s comment that the Trump administration’s drastic USAID cuts have been the “only way” they can get the agency to cooperate, Brzezinski said, “It seems to me there are lawful ways to do this, as opposed to how it’s happening.” In response, Scarborough conceded, “There’s nothing easy about [balancing the government budget]. There’s government waste out there.”
However, the MSNBC personality took issue with Musk and Trump’s seemingly heedless approach to bringing down federal spending.