'Sick': Morning Joe flabbergasted as guest drops 'grotesque' DHS budget bombshell

During a discussion of blowback aimed at the Department of Homeland Security over chaos being created by out-of-control agents, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) stunned the hosts of “Morning Joe” when he pointed out Secretary Kristi Noem has a bigger budget than the U.S. Marine Corp.

That led to a meltdown by co-host Joe Scarborough, who pointed out that US military veterans and active personnel are already getting shortchanged by Donald Trump’s administration.

During a discussion on the push to spend billions on immigrant internment centers, Scarborough interrupted Gallego, a Marine Corps vet, and asked, “So did I understand you correctly? You say that DHS budget is larger than the United States Marine Corps budget?”

“That's right. Yes,” the Democrat from Arizona replied.

After Scarborough, co-host Mika Brzezinski and Gallego briefly talked over each other, Scarborough took control and blurted, “Grotesque. That is grotesque.”

He continued, “Now I want to know, is there anything that Congress can do to claw some of that money back and actually give it to the United States Marines, give it to members of the Navy, give it to members of the Army, give it to the VA? That is grotesque.”

“We have people who have served, suffering, that are not getting health care that they were promised. Can we not claw back that money from ICE and give it to our vets?” he asked.

“Joe, look, I think we can, “ Gallego replied before adding the caveat, “We just have to wait for an election, unfortunately. But that money came from the cuts to Medicaid, right? That money came from those communities in rural Arizona, they're going to have to close down some of their rural hospitals because they needed more money to buy up these big camps they're putting together, to hire these ICE agents that only have about 45 days of training and are given a gun and sent into very stressful areas.”

As Brzezinski started to preview the next topic, her co-host stopped her.

“Really I'm sorry, I can't, I can't, I can't just let that go,” he stated. “Not only are they cutting health care, not only are they cutting health care for our grandparents, for our parents, for our children, and not [just] in blue states, in red states, disproportionately. Not only are they doing that, they've been firing veterans that have worked for the government, firing veterans to give $175 billion to a secret police that the overwhelming number of Americans, overwhelming number of Americans oppose what they're doing, oppose them being secret police, oppose them being in masks. Oppose them arresting Americans, gunning down Americans in the street.”

“And this administration and this Republican Congress has given those secret police more, more money than the United States Marines that is grotesque and it's un-American, “ he added, before muttering “sick.”

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