Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, stated Thursday she is open to the concept of assembly with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, evaluating the rationale of doing so with a visit to see January 6 defendants in jail.
Congressional Republicans are planning to work intently with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, the pair co-leading President-elect Donald Trump’s newly fashioned spending cuts challenge, the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE).
The DOGE duo made their rounds with Republican lawmakers in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, spending the morning with members of the Senate DOGE Caucus earlier than heading to a gathering with Home GOP leaders and Home DOGE Caucus representatives.
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett steered that the identical rationale to go to January 6 defendants in jail might be utilized to assembly with Musk and Ramaswamy in regards to the DOGE. (MSNBC)
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MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace remarked on her present that Musk and Ramaswamy have expressed an curiosity in assembly with Democrats the following time they go to, asking Crockett whether or not she would take them up on their supply.
“Oh, I might meet,” Crockett replied. “Now, I don’t know that they wish to meet with me. I might, completely. You recognize, pay attention, if they will have this little DOGE fee or no matter it’s they’re calling it, I completely wish to perceive as a lot about it as I can in order that I can report again.”
“It’s type of like that point that we needed to go and see the January 6ers on the jail, I needed to present as much as make it possible for the reality was going to be reported,” she added.
“So, completely, come and see me, guys, and let’s have a chat so I can make it possible for the reality is within the ambiance,” she stated.
Elon Musk, Co-Chair of the newly introduced Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), arrives on Capitol Hill on Dec. 5, 2024 in Washington, D.C.; Vivek Ramaswamy, chairman and co-founder of Try Asset Administration, arrives to fulfill with lawmakers on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (Left: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photos; Proper: Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)
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Crockett was one among two Democrats who joined a few dozen Republican members of the Home Oversight Committee in touring a Washington D.C. jail in March 2023 the place some January 6 defendants have been being held.
“Any individual’s obtained to be right here to inform the reality,” Crockett stated in regards to the go to on the time. “If we weren’t right here, there could be no test for no matter it was that they [Republicans] stated.”
Fox Information’ Aubrie Spady, Elizabeth Elkind and Charles Creitz contributed to this report.
