MSNBC Anchor Uses A Tragedy As An Excuse To Fund Agenda

News anchor on MSNBC Joshua Johnson implied that the deadly Surfside condominium building collapse can be used to justify the “price tag” of infrastructure spending during tight negotiations between lawmakers and the Biden administration.

On Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” Johnson declared that big-ticket projects from Democrats are being utilized as “ammunition” by Republicans, but quickly turned to the horrific events in Florida, which has left at least 11 dead with 150 still missing.

“There’s nothing like a disaster to focus on the mind,” Johnson said of the Surfside building. “I have never spent a night in a building and wondered if it was going to hold me up by morning.”

“The idea that we have infrastructure in this building… Florida is one big infrastructure project,” he continued. “[Republican Sen.] Bill Cassidy is in Louisiana, that’s a big infrastructure project. It’s built on swampland. New York subways have flooded in the last few years.”

On #MTP, @NBCJoshua Johnson uses Surfside building collapse to justify multi $trillion federal infrastructure spending: “There is nothing like a disaster to remind the American people the home you sleep in may not stand by morning and there is something you can do about it.” pic.twitter.com/9pGx5UXBKX

— Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) June 27, 2021

Johnson then mentioned the National Institute of Building Sciences, which has insisted that “for every dollar you spend on hazard mitigation, it saves six dollars on disaster relief.”

“Miami Beach hasn’t been hit by a major hurricane since about 1926. They called it ‘The Big Blow.’ It was a Category 4 hurricane that killed 113 people, drowned and crushed by a hurricane,” said Johnson. “I understand all these political calculi that are playing, but there’s nothing like a disaster to remind the American people the home you sleep in may not stand by morning and there is something you can do about it.”