Morning Joe torches MAGA for 'disproportionally' hurting their own 'people' to 'own the libs'

After almost a month, the partial shutdown of the United States' federal government drags on — and with a lot of negative consequences, from the possibility of air traffic controllers having to work without pay to millions of Americans fearing that they will lose their access to food via the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and health insurance via the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a.k.a. Obamacare.

During the Wednesday, October 29 broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," conservative host Joe Scarborough was highly critical of President Donald Trump, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) and other MAGA Republicans who, he argued, are more concerned about "owning the libs" during the shutdown than they are about the wellbeing of their voters.

Scarborough told co-host Mika Brzezinski, their colleague Jonathan Lemire and Democratic consultant Donny Deutsch, "This isn't a political game. The stakes couldn't be higher. This is about whether people in (Sen.) Josh Hawley's state, people in Tommy Tuberville's state, are able to feed their families. It's about whether people in Missouri and Alabama are able to fly and fly safely in and out of their states."

The Never Trump conservative and former GOP congressman continued, "I mean, you could go down the list of things that are being impacted. And yet, for some people, like Tommy Tuberville, this appears to be nothing more than a game."

Scarborough argued that even though Tuberville and other MAGA Republicans "think they're owning the libs," they are "disproportionally" hurting their "own people" in red states who rely on SNAP benefits or health insurance subsidies from Obamacare.

Deutsch commented, "At some point, it creeps into the ether to the point of when people stop eating — when they don't get their Medicaid."