WATCH: Scott Jennings TAKES DOWN Entire CNN Panel in Fiery Clash Over Medicaid Cuts

They tried to frame Republicans as the ‘party of taking things away.’ He shut them down with 4 savage takedowns they didn’t see coming.

Scott Jennings just took on an entire CNN panel of Democrats—and won.

This was a reckoning.

One New York Times reporter tried to frame Republicans as the “party of taking things away” like healthcare.

That's when Scott Jennings unloaded:

“My rebuttal to that would be Democrats have become the party of EXPLODING government benefit programs... and then saying, 'Gee whiz, now people are trying to take things away.'”

He followed up with something about Obamacare that ended the debate on the spot.

Watch all 4 savage takedowns. This is Jennings at his best.

Scott Jennings didn’t wait for introductions before lighting a fuse on CNN’s panel.

He went directly after Senator Thom Tillis, dismissing his criticism of the GOP’s Big Beautiful Bill as not just wrong, but politically clueless.

“I think he's wrong,” Jennings said without blinking.

“And most—virtually every Republican thinks he's wrong.”

His argument was clear: this was no time for Republicans to apologize for enforcing work requirements or limiting benefits to people in the country illegally.

“There's nothing politically devastating about trying to bar 1.4 million illegal aliens from getting welfare,” he explained.

“There's nothing politically devastating about encouraging 4.8 million people....who choose not to work....to try to work a little in order to get government benefits.”

He reminded the panel that the bill wasn’t just about cuts. It also included a $50 billion fund for rural hospitals, something Tillis himself had raised as a concern.

Jennings laid it out clearly: the GOP had delivered, and they shouldn’t act ashamed of it.

“So I don't agree with his political analysis, nor does virtually every other Republican who helped to craft and ultimately pass this bill,” he said.

“And I think Republicans ought to lean into these things: work requirements are good. Encouraging work instead of welfare is a good thing and it will work in campaigns.”

It didn’t take long for the tension to spike.

Axios reporter Alex Thompson zeroed in on what he thought was a potential vulnerability: the bill’s Medicaid changes wouldn’t kick in until after the midterms.

It was a classic “gotcha” moment—except Jennings didn’t take the bait.

“You say, Republicans should lean in, but most of these Medicaid cuts don't come until after the midterms. Why is that?” Thompson pressed.

Jennings was ready and waiting.

“Well, I mean, states run the Medicaid program,” he replied.

“I do think it's reasonable to give them time to prepare to enact changes to the program.”

Then he turned the tables, accusing Democrats of preparing to weaponize the issue with fear campaigns rather than talk policy.

“But it doesn't matter, because Democrats are obviously going to go all in on this hysteria campaign,” Jennings warned.

His message to Republicans was crystal clear: don’t expect a polite debate....be ready to fight for the argument.

“So if you're running a Republican campaign out there, you're going to have to debate the issue,” he said.

This was his advice to fellow Republicans:

“And I'm telling you as a debating point, if Democrats want to run on giving Medicaid to illegal aliens and people who won't work or choose not to work, Republicans have a counter-message that will work if they are willing to courageously defend it.”

If Jennings was spoiling for a fight, he got it from Democrat Congressman Glenn Ivey of Maryland.

Ivey slammed Republicans for what he claimed was painting working-class families as lazy freeloaders at a time when many are barely scraping by.

“I was going to say, I mean, you're putting your Republican colleagues of mine in the position of having to declare people to be deadbeats at the time when they are working two jobs, they are doing everything they can to make ends meet,” Ivey said.

“And you guys are going to take the rug out from under them, and they're not going to be happy. They're going to be rightly, I think, upset about it.”

Jennings shook his head, jumping in before Ivey could finish.

He said Democrats were deliberately blurring the lines between people truly in need and those who refused to work.

“You guys are conflating two populations, and it's not my conjecture. Just ask the CBO. Everybody likes to cite the CBO, the CBO’s own numbers,” he shot back.

CNN’s Kasie Hunt tried to needle him with a teasing dig—“Except you, typically”—but Jennings just smirked.

“Well, I'm going to cite them because they tend to be popular, at least in here.”

He laid out the data that changed everything.

“4.8 million people on Medicaid who choose not to work. That's not my going out and counting. That's the CBO. 1.4 million illegal aliens.”

Jennings insisted Republicans could sell these distinctions if they were willing to say it out loud.

“So there is a population that chooses not to work that maybe should try a little,” he added.

“And the people you cite, are not going to lose their benefits.”

But the conversation was just warming up.

New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro took a swing at the Republicans’ messaging problem, saying they were boxing themselves in as the “party of taking things away.”

“It is much easier to run on a message of someone took something away from you than it is to say, no, actually, we didn't take it away. Some certain populations are undeserving, certain populations, you know, aren't actually there to get it,” she argued.

Jennings didn’t deny she had a point—at least strategically.

“I hear your analysis and it's it's a valid debating point,” he acknowledged.

But he argued Democrats had created the very crisis they now warned about, using COVID as an excuse to grow government benefits far beyond their original purpose, then crying foul when anyone tried to pull back.

“My rebuttal to that would be Democrats have become the party of EXPLODING government benefit programs during Covid, vastly expanding Medicaid beyond what it was ever intended to do, and then saying, gee whiz, now people are trying to take things away.”

Garcia-Navarro wasn’t satisfied.

“Do you think people like healthcare though? Do you think people like healthcare?” she challenged.

Jennings didn’t hesitate.

He landed a knockout blow, reminding Lulu who is responsible for the current crisis.

“I think they like healthcare, I don't think they like the system we live under, which is not a Republican system,” he countered.

“It's Obamacare! Which exploded premiums and has vastly expanded the welfare state.”

By the end of the exchange, Garcia-Navarro tried to steer the conversation back to a universal value: the basic promise that anyone should be able to get medical care.

“But what I'm saying is most people do believe that there should be a basic ability to go to a hospital and get some care,” she said.

Jennings wasn’t about to argue against that, but he insisted there was another half of the story voters deserved to hear.

“I agree, but I think most people also believe that people should not be able to sit and do nothing and receive government benefits, or be in the country illegally and receive government benefits.”

“An attempt to work is a good thing.”

He closed with the stark, almost binary choice he wanted every viewer to see.

“And the Republican ethos is encouraging work.”

“The Democratic ethos is encouraging government dependence.”

“That’s the debate.”

The 4 vs. 1 was just eloquently ENDED by Jennings.

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