On Tuesday night, MSNBC host Jen Psaki interviewed leftist Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) on The Briefing to denounce the Big Beautiful Bill. Psaki praised Frost as “passionate” and “important” for his ability to delay the bills passing immediately following his five-minute-long, fact oblivious, fearmongering segment.

Psaki set Frost up to be the good guy by asking him about supposed Medicaid cuts within the BBB, prompting this socialist answer:

He posted it, and it hasn’t been deleted. Like he believes that he’s talking about the minutiae of Medicaid, 17 million people losing their health insurance, rural hospitals closing down. That clip you posted earlier when he was asked about the health care system. Even the way he answered the question, what’s the first thing he said? He brought up the business of rural health care. He didn’t bring up making sure humans in rural America are healthy. The business.

It seemed the number on how many people would lose Medicaid due to the BBB changed by the day. Numbers from a CBO report initially stated 4.8 million people would become uninsured, then it moved to 16 million, and now, it’s somehow 17 million! 

Nowhere in the bill's 1,000-plus pages did it back the claim that 17 million people who need it will be kicked off. In fact, the bill enacted work requirements for able-bodied people on Medicaid while creating exemptions for pregnant women, foster youth, caregivers, and the homeless. It also maintained all coverage for children, seniors, and disabled individuals. 

Psaki refused to fact check Frost at all and let him continue:

I mean there’s someone named JJ Holmes who’s a young guy with a disability in Orlando, Florida. He lives with his mom, he’s an advocate, he’s an organizer. Medicaid is the reason he’s able to stay home, and he wrote a really touching letter to members of Congress saying, if I lose my benefits, I will be institutionalized. I literally won’t be able to be with my mother, with my family, like I deserve to be.  

Frost fearmongered, stated the bill would be “killing people” and kick off disabled people from Medicaid, all while Jen Psaki nodded along.

Again, there was not a single mention of kicking disabled people off the bill. In fact, Section 44141 explicitly stated it created work requirement exemptions for them. Fantasizing a disabled person's suffering to push policy agendas is disgusting. 

Psaki then lamented about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents receiving funding, giving Frost the opportunity to accuse ICE of international criminal activity like “kidnapping” and “trafficking.” He also accused them of allowing people to die in their custody, hinting that it was from a lack of medical treatment (Click “expand”):

PSAKI: It includes $45 billion for building new detention centers. Nearly $30 billion goes to ICE. This is at a time where we are watching, some of the most horrible stories are in Florida, masked agents literally pull people off the streets, separate them from their families. I just want to put into perspective for people, because I know you’ve thought of this, how large that amount of money is, and what kind of damage that could do as well.

(...)

FROST: I don’t like to mince my words about it because it's not even mass deportation. Deportation, it’s a legal process could take a few months, it could take a year. This is kidnapping, and then they traffic people to other countries, countries they might not have even come from in the first place. 

PSAKI: Yeah.

FROST: The majority of folks who have been here over ten years, taxpayers, Americans, our neighbors, our friends, our family, and we see what’s going on. Even the state of Florida many people have died already in the custody of ICE, and so — and then we have this whole Alligator Alcatraz situation where they’re putting up what’s essentially an internment camp in the middle of the everglades in the hot Florida sun.

ICE was required by law to release the findings of ALL deaths in ICE detention centers. All deaths he’s referring to (excluding the one still under investigation) seem to be from natural causes, not inhumane detainment as he alluded.

He mourned for detainees being sent to Alligator Alcatraz in the “hot sun,” the center houses inmates inside. Of course, Frost had no problem with the Biden administration detaining illegal immigrants under the “hot sun” in Arizona, with no roof.

Frost then made this ironic statement:

Nobody wants this mass human trafficking, chaotic campaign in our communities where we literally have immigrants and people who have been here, again, over ten years of their life, our neighbors fearing for their lives, not even sending their kids to school. You know, I went to El Salvador for the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. The reason I went there is because I had people in my community coming up to me and saying, he represents me, he represents my family. 

Frost claimed his constituents were the ones who wanted him to meet with alleged human trafficker Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. He said this directly after saying nobody wanted mass human trafficking in reference to deportations, and not the actual human trafficking from the southern border.

Psaki ended the painful segment with this flattery:

Congressman Maxwell Frost, you have so much passion, I’m so grateful you could be here, and also, it tells everybody something that you are going back to the hill now. That's what’s happening, people should know about, people like you are delaying the vote. And that is an important part of this process as well. Thank you.

After blatantly lying on multiple occasions to Psaki’s viewers, she called him passionate and important because of his ability to delay the bill.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to view:

MSNBC’s The Briefing With Jen Psaki
July, 1st, 2025
9:17:22 PM EST

(…)

JEN PSAKI: And part of what’s important, and you touched on this, is people understanding what’s in the bill and what the driving force is behind the bill. I just mentioned, and I just can't get over this, so I'm just going to read it again. Vice President Vance posted this today, “The minutiae of the Medicaid policy is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.” I have so many thoughts about this, but I’ve already shared them

MAXWELL FROST: Yeah

PSAKI: What are your thoughts about that?

FROST: Yeah, this isn’t a slip of tongue, right?

PSAKI: No, he posted it!

FROST: He posted it, and it hasn’t been deleted. Like he believes that he’s talking about the minutiae of Medicaid, 17 million people losing their health insurance, rural hospitals closing down. That clip you posted earlier when he was asked about the health care system. Even the way he answered the question, what’s the first thing he said? He brought up the business of rural health care. He didn’t bring up making sure humans in rural America are healthy. The business.

And that’s the thing is, it’s all a business. It’s all making money to these guys, and that’s not a new thing. The Republican Party has been about this for generations. They have someone in Donald Trump now who’s a billionaire himself, who wants to do it to such a degree that people will die. 

Hakeem Jefferies just said this on a call I got off. He said, if this passes, the floor of the House will become a crime scene, and I fully agree with that characterization. It's murder, it’s killing people. We’re going to see people with disabilities – I mean there’s someone named JJ Holmes who’s a young guy with a disability in Orlando, Florida. He lives with his mom, he’s an advocate, he’s an organizer. Medicaid is the reason he’s able to stay home, and he wrote a really touching letter to members of Congress saying, if I lose my benefits, I will be institutionalized. I literally won’t be able to be with my mother, with my family, like I deserve to be.  

(...)

9:19:23 PM

PSAKI: I can hear and see and people can probably see it watching the emotion in your voice. And this is every person I've talked to who's opposed to this bill is projecting that same thing right now. And the horror of it.

I wanted to talk about a piece of this that I – I don't – there's a lot that hasn't gotten enough attention. And part to me is this $170 billion in immigration enforcement.

FROST: Yeah.

PSAKI: It includes $45 billion for building new detention centers. Nearly $30 billion goes to ICE. This is at a time where we are watching, some of the most horrible stories are in Florida, masked agents literally pull people off the streets, separate them from their families. I just want to put into perspective for people, because I know you’ve thought of this, how large that amount of money is, and what kind of damage that could do as well.

(...)

9:20:30 PM

FROST: I don’t like to mince my words about it because it's not even mass deportation. Deportation, it’s a legal process could take a few months, it could take a year. This is kidnapping, and then they traffic people to other countries, countries they might not have even come from in the first place. 

PSAKI: Yeah

FROST: The majority of folks who have been here over ten years, taxpayers, Americans, our neighbors, our friends, our family, and we see what’s going on. Even the state of Florida many people have died already in the custody of ICE, and so — and then we have this whole Alligator Alcatraz situation where they’re putting up what’s essentially an internment camp in the middle of the everglades in the hot Florida sun.

(...)

9:21:40 PM

FROST: Nobody wants this mass human trafficking, chaotic campaign in our communities where we literally have immigrants and people who have been here, again, over ten years of their life, our neighbors fearing for their lives, not even sending their kids to school. You know, I went to El Salvador for the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, the reason I went there is because I had people in my community coming up to me and saying, he represents me, he represents my family. 

(...)

9:22:41 PM

PSAKI: Congressman Maxwell Frost, you have so much passion, I’m so grateful you could be here, and also, it tells everybody something that you are going back to the hill now. That's what’s happening, people should know about, people like you are delaying the vote. And that is an important part of this process as well. Thank you.