MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle faults Kamala Harris for not answering crucial question

MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle admitted Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t answer the question of how she plans to raise taxes if Republicans in Congress block her plan to raise the corporate tax rate.

In her solo interview with Ms. Harris that aired Wednesday, Ms. Ruhle asked the vice president where the money would come from for her economic plans if her idea of raising corporate taxes gets squashed by a possible GOP-controlled Senate.

“Do you still go forward with those plans and borrow?” Ms. Ruhle asked.

“Well, but we’re going to have to raise corporate taxes. And we’re going to have to raise — we’re going to have to make sure that the biggest corporations and billionaires pay their fair share,” Ms. Harris replied. “That’s just it. It’s about paying their fair share.”

Later, on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” Ms. Ruhle said Ms. Harris “doesn’t answer the question” about how she would circumvent a divided government.

“If the GOP is controlling the Senate, if she can’t raise corporate taxes, where is she going to get the money from to expand the child tax credit and do whatever she wants to do? And she says, ’We just have to do it,’” Ms. Ruhle said. “And that’s great, and that’s a campaign promise, but the issue is, if it means we’re gonna just borrow again, then what we’re doing is we’re just never addressing the deficit. And back in the days when you were a proud Republican, debts and deficits mattered.”

Ms. Ruhle, however, said that former President Donald Trump would “balloon” the deficit “significantly bigger” than Ms. Harris.

“It’s like the American people have forgot, or we no longer think debt and deficits matter. They will at some point as they balloon. She’s saying, ’It doesn’t matter, we’re going full steam ahead,’” Ms. Ruhle said.

She doesn’t “fault her for it because the American people aren’t prioritizing saying you have to focus on this,” Ms. Ruhle said. “And as much as she is not focused on it, Donald Trump’s is not in a much bigger way. And that is the person that she’s running against.”