On Thursday morning, CNN host John Berman gave no pushback as Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC) appeared as a guest to complain about the Republican proposal for tax and budget cuts, calling it “reverse Robin Hood.”
The CNN host didn’t take exception with the veteran Democrat laughably generalizing that Democrats “keep people above our politics” while Republicans “put the politics above the people.”
Without clarifying that the tax cut would be an extension of the tax cuts passed in 2017 — which aided most taxpayers, not just the rich — Berman set up the segment by reading the tweeted criticism from Congressman Clyburn:
Also this morning, House Republicans have released their budget blueprint, calling for a minimum of $1.5 trillion in spending cuts and $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. The response from Democratic Congressman Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, quote,…
