Mike Huckabee praised President Trump on Wednesday for his decision to accept the Democratic position that the government’s spending and borrowing authority should only be extended three months.
“Today was a smart move on the part of the president,” the former Republican Arkansas governor told Fox News. “This is something that was going to inevitably happen, the debt ceiling was going to increase.”
By accepting the Democrats’ terms over that of the GOP establishment, Trump avoids a battle while having to deal with multiple hurricanes and comprehensive tax reform, Huckabee said.
“It gives Trump an opportunity to say, ‘I’m not the guy that blocks everything,'” he continued. “He’s dealing with a bunch of incompetent Republicans who are so completely impotent that a year’s supply of political Viagra would not make them capable of getting something done.”
Huckabee added that he “was done with” congressional GOP members, saying they were “utterly worthless in getting something done” in the legislature.
“I am sick of the Republicans in Congress,” Huckabee said. “They have the numbers to get something done, and they can’t even get together on changing the doggone tax code.”
