“Saturday Night Live” took on recent comments by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who said he didn’t understand why federal workers were turning to food banks during the partial government shutdown.
In the show’s cold open Saturday night, cast member Kate McKinnon, playing Ross, expressed remorse for the comment, saying it was “silly of me.”
“I simply meant that there are other ways of getting money,” McKinnon’s Ross told Alex Moffat as Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. “Like, they could have liquidated some of their stocks or sold one of their paintings.”
Ross was criticized as “out of touch” last week after suggesting that federal employees should take out low-interest loans. He later said he is “painfully aware” that federal workers are facing financial hardship after missing paychecks.
On SNL, McKinnon’s Ross suggested that federal workers could even sell less famous paintings, saying that “the small things add up.”
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WATCH: SNL's Kate McKinnon as Trump Commerce chief says federal workers should just liquidate their stocks https://t.co/jHLsrO0McG pic.twitter.com/ScWoJl8b1N
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