Rep. Barbara Lee: ‘It’s Morally Corrupt’ to Shut the Gov’t Down Because of Billionaire Unelected Pres. Elon Musk

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LEE: "Well the case is Democrats do not want to shut down because as I said the consequences are devastating and we had a bipartisan deal. And so we're doing everything we can do to make sure that the government does not shut down because we know what the impact is on jobs on -- on the public life, on livelihoods, on our economy. And we're doing everything we can do to avoid a shutdown. But let me tell you, we had an agreement that agreement was an agreement between Republicans and Democrats, the speaker agreed to it, our Leader Hakeem Jeffries agreed to it, it was an agreement that Democrats and Republicans said would keep the government open. And so for a billionaire Elon Musk and Donald Trump some have called him the unelected president and Donald Trump the vice president, you know I've seen messages such as that on social media, I mean this is -- this is wrong first of all but the consequences and the impact on people is really unfortunate, and it's -- it's morally corrupt if you ask me in terms of what they're doing. And so we have to go back and make sure that this bipartisan deal holds.”