Against the backdrop of Elon Musk’s budget-cutting initiatives, Washington Post associate editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart got triggered on Friday’s PBS News Hour when the American Enterprise Institute’s Matthew Continetti reminded him that former President Joe Biden abused executive power on his student loan order. Capehart argued that comparisons were “apples and cannonballs” and claimed Biden gets a pass because “he did it to help people.”
Host Geoff Bennett kicked things off by asking Continetti, “How do you view Congress really abdicating their role, ceding their power to the executive?”
Continetti began by giving a much-needed history lesson, “Well, I think this process of ceding power to the executive is decades in the making, and it’s bipartisan. Congress has really just become an investigatory body that delegates tremendous…
