Scott Jennings didn’t hold back Wednesday when he faced off against an entire CNN panel stacked with Democrats.
It was nothing short of a reckoning.
At one point, a New York Times reporter tried to brand Republicans as the “party of taking things away,” pointing to issues like healthcare. Jennings wasn’t having it.
“My rebuttal to that would be Democrats have become the party of EXPLODING government benefit programs… and then saying, ‘Gee whiz, now people are trying to take things away.’”
If you want to see political debate at its sharpest, check out all four of his takedowns. This was Jennings in peak form.
Scott Jennings didn’t bother with pleasantries before setting off fireworks on CNN’s panel.
He went straight for Senator Thom Tillis, brushing aside Tillis’s criticism of the GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” as not just misguided but flat-out politically clueless.
“I think he’s wrong,” Jennings said coolly. “And most—virtually every Republican thinks he’s wrong.”
“There’s nothing politically devastating about trying to bar 1.4 million illegal aliens from getting welfare,” he argued.
“There’s nothing politically devastating about encouraging 4.8 million people who choose not to work to try to work a little in order to get government benefits.”
Jennings also reminded the panel that this wasn’t some brutal cost-cutting plan. The bill included a $50 billion fund for rural hospitals—an issue Tillis himself had flagged as a priority.
“So I don’t agree with his [Tillis’s] political analysis, nor does virtually every other Republican who helped to craft and ultimately pass this bill,” Jennings concluded.
“And I think Republicans ought to lean into these things: work requirements are good. Encouraging work instead of welfare is a good thing, and it will work in campaigns.”
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