Today on MS NOW’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) criticized former President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans for ongoing government funding tensions. Crockett argued the country is “broken in all ways” because Republican lawmakers “do whatever it is that the president wants them to do.” “We don’t have two separate governing bodies,” Crockett told Jansing on Tuesday. “We have a group of people that simply do whatever it is that the president wants them to do. And the president wanted to be seen as the savior. You have noted, along with every other cable news outlet, how bad his current ratings are.” “This was an opportunity for him to look like he was the big guy in the room,” Crockett said. “But the reality is that the only reason that our country is broken in all ways is because of this president and because of the lack of courage on the Republican side.”

CHRIS JANSING, MS NOW HOST: What’s it going to take now for the rest of those folks, whose jobs — who are not getting paid for their jobs, may not have the kind of video results that show what’s happening out there? REP. JASMINE CROCKETT (D-TX): No. Well, and the reality is that TSA got paid their back pay. JANSING: Yes. CROCKETT: They are still shut down, DHS. So, going forward, there are no guarantees until we actually pass a bill. So I do want to be clear. There may be a little relief right now over the Easter holiday, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that that’s going to be sustained. So what it takes is actually communicating while we’re supposed to be doing our work. We know that we were in session. The Republicans and the Democrats in the Senate somehow figured this out. It is hard for me to believe that they didn’t communicate with the House. Anyone that knows how to govern knows that, if you are going to get something to the president’s desk, it takes communication, not only within your chamber, but across the chambers. And so I believe that it was the speaker who probably got his information from the president. And the president told him to shut it down, because, frankly, we don’t have two separate governing bodies. We have a group of people that simply do whatever it is that the president wants them to do. And the president wanted to be seen as the savior. You have noted, along with every other cable news outlet, how bad his current ratings are. And so this was an opportunity for him to look like he was the big guy in the room. But the reality is that the only reason that our country is broken in all ways is because of this president and because of the lack of courage on the Republican side. JANSING: I have to say, though, it’s not only the president’s ratings that are bad. Congress isn’t doing so great. In fact, Democrats aren’t doing so great. So there’s a new poll out. Congressional approval is down to 30 percent. Democrats don’t fare any better, by the way, than Republicans do. So are you at risk of an election that’s essentially throw the bums out? That’s bad for a lot of incumbents, because if you go out there and you talk to a lot of folks, they are sick of it not being functional and they’re sick of the finger-pointing. They think it’s all a mess. CROCKETT: I agree. But what usually happens is, people are usually like, all the rest of them are bad, and they keep voting for their own, right? So that’s typically what happens. JANSING: That’s also true. Yes, you’re right about that. CROCKETT: So we will see. I think that every single elected official needs to figure out what it takes to actually make sure that their constituents are happy and believing in the work that they’re doing. And so this is going to come down to individual incumbents. I do think that there are incumbents on both sides that are at risk. I think that even some of them recognize that and they decided to retire or leave or run for something else. I also think that there is a sentiment on both sides of the aisle where people are just kind of over the lack of function within government themselves.

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