Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show Wednesday that the Democratic Party does not take steps to improve homelessness because they want to exemplify it as an argument against capitalism.

"Why do you think the left loves homelessness, tent cities? Because to them they can point and say, 'See, capitalism doesn’t work, look at these people,' " he said on the show.

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Limbaugh's comments come in response to The Washington Post's report that President Trump Donald John TrumpFederal prosecutor speaks out, says Barr 'has brought shame' on Justice Dept. Former Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick MORE requested a crackdown on homelessness in California. The radio host commended the president for tackling the issue.

"It is not a problem in the United States, but it has surfaced in one of these tent cities in California," Limbaugh said in his show. "So for health reasons alone the president ought to do this. I applaud this."

The radio host said the homelessness crisis is rampant primarily in liberal cities, counties and states like California, on "Fox & Friends" Wednesday morning. He said these governments don't want to call attention to their own policies that he said don't fix the situation.

"Wherever you find this decadent decay, you're going to find Democrats having run the operation or the city, the state, whatever it is, the county for decades," he said on "Fox & Friends."

Limbaugh said the Democratic Party is focusing too much on attacking Trump with investigations and combating his border policy rather than on the problems plaguing their constituents.

"The Democrats need a permanent underclass of people that are incapable of self-reliance and so these situations allowed to fester," he said on the morning show.

The Trump administration has been considering getting involved in California's homelessness crisis after sparring with the state's leaders.