During a recent White House press briefing, Karine Jean-Pierre appeared to take a jab at Elon Musk while answering a question on the looming government shutdown as Congress was failing to reach a consensus on a spending bill. KJP suggested that predicament was a “mess” created by Republican lawmakers, who should “stop playing politics” with a shutdown and cease doing the “bidding of their billionaire friends.”
One reporter asked the press secretary, “Thanks, Karine, so I wondered if the President has spoken to any lawmakers personally about the potential for a shutdown.” KJP responded, “So let me first say this, and I know you’ve seen our statements coming from here this week about this particular issue, and we’ll just continue to reiterate that Republicans blew up this deal they did, and they need to fix this period.”
Continuing, Jean-Pierre said, “They have to Republican needs to stop playing politics with a government shutdown. And they are doing the bidding. They’re doing the bidding of their billionaire friends. That’s what we’re seeing at the expense of hard-working Americans.” KJP further noted, “And just to quote you something that we saw today, and I’m sure you all saw from the Punch Bowl News, which is, and I quote, ‘this has been an absolutely disastrous week for the speaker, the President Elect, Donald Trump, and Republicans on Capitol Hill.'”
“This is a mess that they created, and they need to fix this,” Jean-Pierre emphasized, placing the blame on the GOP. Returning to the question, KJP said, “On your question the president, I can confirm just moments ago, the President was able to connect with leader Schumer and leader Jeffries and and also, just to add that the President does indeed get regular updates, he has been getting ready regular updates from his team. His team has been in touch with members, congressional members from both sides of the aisle, and certainly he will continue to stay updated.”
Users in the comments section reacted to KJP’s commentary, expressing serious disagreement. One user commented on how the bill was rushed in at the last minute, stating, “Why didn’t congress take this up a month ago? Why did they wait until the weekend before Christmas? Why did they try to cram 1500 pages through at the last minute?”
Calling out KJP’s hostility toward Republicans in blaming them for the entirety of the crisis, another user added, “This is a completely unhelpful attitude. No teamwork or ideas to contribute to the problem. “It’s your mess, you clean it up,” is a pathetic authority attitude, especially when you set up the situation in the first place by not heading it off at the pass. Think!”
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