President Joe Biden on Wednesday morning stepped to a lectern in the Roosevelt Room of the White House to take a victory lap.

His administration had just released new data projecting it to cut the federal deficit by $1.5 trillion by the end of the fiscal year, which it says would be the biggest decline ever in a single year in American history. The cuts, Biden added, would build on top of the $350 billion drop in the deficit in his first year in office.

That’s not all: The Treasury Department announced plans to pay down the national debt this quarter, something that didn’t happen in a single quarter under his predecessor who oversaw yearly increases in what the government spent versus how much revenue it generated during his term.

But it was comments he made at the end of the speech in response to a question about the recent leaked draft opinion on Roe v. Wade that made the most news.

“What are the next things that are going to be attacked?” Biden asked. “Because this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in recent American history, in recent American history.”

And he name-checked Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida who released what Biden described as the “ultra-MAGA agenda” for its controversial positions on issues of race and the social safety net. (MAGA, of course, stands for “Make America Great Again,” the political slogan used by Donald Trump during his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns and a representation of the far-right views of many of the people who supported him.)

“It’s extreme, as most MAGA things are,” Biden said. “It will actually raise taxes on 75 million American families, over 95 percent of whom make less than $100,000 a year.”

It’s worth noting that Biden’s comments came at the end of his speech, where Biden has been known to improvise.

A White House spokesperson did not respond when asked if the president’s comments were ad-libbed or included in his prepared remarks.

“I think that the president and members of the Democratic Party are starting to realize that trying to negotiate with people and a [Republican Party] that is not interested in negotiating is not serving them,” Brandi Collins-Dexter, a senior visiting fellow at the Harvard University Shorenstein Center and the author of the upcoming book, Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future, said to Supercreator.

Collins-Dexter told me she thinks the leak around the Roe v. Wade decision has helped bring Biden’s reality into focus. But that’s of little solace when you consider the unwillingness of the Republican Party writ large to condemn the actions of the insurrectionists and members of Congress who incited the Capitol riot to still be in positions of power without accountability.

“And for them to not only be there but actively working against the president’s agenda, I think he has no choice but to be more aggressive in naming the ways that is playing out and the impacts on our country — especially since there are midterm elections coming up.”