CNN Host Calls Out GOP Senator’s Absurd Elon Musk Claim: ‘That Can’t Be True’

CNN anchor Dana Bash on Sunday hit again at Sen. Invoice Hagerty’s (R-Tenn.) declare that Elon Musk was “the one method we might even know” concerning the authorities funding plan after the billionaire trashed the deal on his X platform.

“I believe as a senator voting I presume you do your finest to learn the payments that you simply’re voting on. I perceive it was fairly massive in the beginning however to say that it was solely Elon Musk that made individuals conscious of what was in it, that may’t be true,” she instructed Hagerty, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

On Wednesday, Musk unleashed a storm of social media posts criticizing a bipartisan deal negotiated by Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) as a potential authorities shutdown loomed over Washington.

Donald Trump went on to echo Musk’s criticism, successfully killing the invoice on the time, earlier than a brand new model with out a key ask from the president-elect ― a elevate to the debt ceiling ― finally handed the Home and the Senate.

President Joe Biden later signed the invoice to fund the federal government by March.

Bash famous that Trump didn’t publicly weigh in on the invoice for greater than 12 hours after Musk’s first publish and “solely did so” after Republicans have been following the billionaire’s lead.

“So did Donald Trump solely decide this combat as a result of Elon Musk backed him right into a nook?” she requested Hagerty.

“I actually wouldn’t say that, and I say thank God Elon Musk purchased Twitter, as a result of that’s the one method we might even know what’s on this invoice, in any other case the conspiracy between the federal government and Twitter would have continued and this is able to have all been coated up.” Hagerty replied.

“However the truth is that Elon Musk exposing this meant that each one of our places of work was inundated with calls from our constituents.”

Hagerty stated that Musk’s “transparency” helped make this occur and later clarified that he didn’t imply the billionaire alone made individuals conscious of the invoice.

“We’re all struggling to learn it, to digest an over 1,500 web page invoice that we have been actually given simply hours to comb by. I used to be working by it. My workers didn’t sleep the evening earlier than. It’s terribly irritating,” he stated.

“However I believe the added weight of the American public understanding and the straightforward image that Elon Musk put ahead displaying the dimensions of the stack of what we initially introduced. We began out with over 1,500 pages, we obtained it right down to 120 pages.”