MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle contended Vice President Kamala Harris failed to provide a substantive answer on her policy proposals, an area Harris’s critics have focused on.
Harris, the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential candidate, sat down with Ruhle on Wednesday night for her first one-on-one interview with a legacy media outlet. While reflecting on the interview, Ruhle admitted the vice president did not “answer the question” regarding how she would fund the policies on which she is campaigning.
“She doesn’t answer the question around, if the GOP is controlling the Senate, if she can’t raise corporate taxes, where is she going to get the money from, you know, to expand the Child Tax Credit and do all the things she wants to do,” Ruhle said. “And she says, ‘We just have to do it.’ And that’s great and that’s a campaign promise, but the issue is, if it means we’re just going to just borrow again, then what we’re doing is we’re just never addressing the deficit.”
Ruhle said getting the nation’s deficit and debt under control are two important things voters have seemingly “forgot” about. She claimed that neither Harris nor former President Donald Trump has a plan to address this. She also interjected that Trump would increase the deficit “significantly bigger” than under Harris’s leadership.
In July, the United States’s national debt reached $35 trillion.
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After the first presidential debate between Harris and Trump on Sept. 10, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon found it “interesting” how he could not remember if the country’s debt was discussed at all between the two candidates. He stated that this policy matter is one “that’s going to have to be wrestled with,” but he “didn’t hear any discussion” on it.
Harris discussed several topics during her interview with Ruhle, during which she previewed a visit to the southern border Friday. Harris was deemed the “border czar” after being placed in charge of it by President Joe Biden upon entering the White House in 2021. However, under her watch, the border has routinely been criticized for its lack of security.