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Fox Business host Larry Kudlow, who served as National Economic Council director during President Trump’s first term, scolded Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) during an interview Wednesday about the lack of big Republican accomplishments this year, warning “polls are lousy.”
“The socialists are winning, they’re taking over the Democratic Party. The Republicans are doing nothing. I mean you got stuff out there — the polls are lousy,” Kudlow declared at the start of the interview.
“There’s an economic boom and no one seems to know about it and today you had this very important article showing that people are paying more on tax payments than on food, clothing and shelter, and the Senate … the U.S. Republican Senate ain’t doing a thing about it,” Kudlow fumed, without citing which publication he had in mind.
Tuberville said he agreed with that criticism.
“I have to agree with you Larry. You’re exactly right. We’re getting ready to go on a recess. You know we’re only in two weeks in September. We’re off the whole month of October,” he said. “We need to give the American people something before the election or it’s not going to be good. And that’s going to have to be reconciliation.”
Senate Republicans, however, are divided over whether to move forward on a third budget reconciliation package, with some warning that it will force vulnerable colleagues such as Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to take tough votes on an array of “gotcha” political amendments sponsored by Democrats just months before the midterms.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has instead teed up votes on a continuing resolution to fund government until Dec. 11, a package of 74 Trump nominees, Todd Blanche’s nomination to serve as attorney general and a bipartisan bill to reform college sports eligibility and compensation rules.
Even so, Kudlow insisted that Senate Republicans aren’t doing anything.
He pointed to poll by Republican pollster John McLaughlin showing that only 26 percent of likely voters think Trump’s 2025 tax cuts were enough to improve the economy and 56 percent said the economy is getting worse.
“Those are bad numbers,” Kudlow said. “With all due respect to the Alabama farmers who are probably suffering because of unnecessary tariffs, the fact remains I don’t think people want more farm aid. I think they want lower taxes and lower costs throughout the economy.”
Tuberville argued the economy is “getting better” but he speculated that the Republican messaging on the economy isn’t getting traction with voters because “socialists” and Democrats are keeping the public focus on other issues, such as criticisms of Trump’s policies.
“You got to give it to these socialist, communist Democrats. They play hardball and they keep us on one subject and we stay on that subject and we don’t get on the positive things. We’ve had to play negative ball with these people for the last seven or eight months,” Tuberville said.
“At the end of the day, what’s it about? It’s about the economy. It’s about the economy and it is getting better and we’ve got to sell that. Hopefully we’ll do that for the next months. We could help that if we go out an do a reconciliation, maybe two of them, before the election,” he added. “Right now we’re not getting any wins.”
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