Donald Trump isn't a conservative or "even a Republican," MSNBC's Joe Scarborough declared Wednesday, while discussing the GOP presidential nominee's child care proposals.
"We talked about it before," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program. "Republicans don't want to hear it. People that support Trump don't want to hear it. He's not a conservative. He's not even a Republican.
"He's a big government liberal from Manhattan who has been a big government liberal . . . He's a liberal Democrat who hijacked an entire party."
And, Scarborough continued, Trump has always been a liberal and "always will be."
"So for conservatives to say you're not a true conservative or a Republican, you're not falling in line with the nominee, no. no, no," Scarborough argued. "Give me a break."
Rick Tyler, a former communications director for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's failed presidential bid, agreed, started Scarborough's argument when he called Trump's child care plans, which call for guaranteeing six weeks of paid maternity leave, rewriting the tax code, creating Dependent Care Savings Accounts for families, and reforming laws to add incentives for employers to provide on-site child care for employees, "another welfare program."
"It's unbelievable to me that conservatives are out there now, because the very children whose parents would benefit from this welfare program will be the same ones that will have to pay it off," Tyler said.
"We have a $20 trillion operational debt. Let's just add more money on it and why go six weeks, 12 weeks. Why not just make it until you move out of your parent's basement?"
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