Jasmine Crockett: Elon Musk Is Puppeteering Donald Trump Right Now, He Bought the Presidency

WOOD: “In the last hour we did speak about a bill that would’ve kept the government funded through March. Congress clapback queen Jasmine Crockett, I believe is on the phone, called up for Charlamagne. Can you take it from here, Charlamagne?”

MCKELVEY: “Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.”

CASEY: “Good morning, Jasmine.”

Crockett: “Morning y’all.”

MCKELVEY: “How you feeling?”

Crockett: “Terrible.”

MCKELVEY: “Why?”

Crockett: “They don’t want me to go home.”

MCKELVEY: “Jasmine, why does it seem like this threat of a government shutdown happens every year?”

CASEY: “No, every couple months it seems like it.”

Crockett: “Yeah, you’re right. It has been an ongoing, every couple of months type of situation, but we always made it through. But this time I don’t know what’s going to happen. Listen, we don’t have elections, so they already got elected. They’re sure that everybody is going to forget in two years. Like everybody forgot four years later, all the crap that we went through with Trump. So now they’re talking about shutting down the government. So when y’all get stuck at the airport trying to get home, hey, y’all know who to blame.”

CASEY: “So what does — can you break down what exactly that means? Because when people hear it, we hear it so much, it really means nothing anymore. So when they talk about shutting down the government and we see millions sent to all these different countries, what does shutting down the government actually really mean?”

Crockett: “It legitimately means like turning off the lights. So if there is a governmental agency, no money, really, for the most part is flowing through to that agency. So when you think about our military, whether our troops are here or abroad, they’re not getting money. Okay? So they still have to show up because we consider them to be essential, but they’re not getting checks. So same thing with TSA. TSA is essential. Same thing with our air traffic controllers. They’re essential. When you think about Border Patrol, they’re essential, but they’re not getting checks. So what happens is a lot of people burn through any time that they have off. Because they’re like, well, why am I gonna show up and you’re not gonna pay me? And you risk losing your job if you’re like, you know what, I can’t do this. Like, we need money today, so I’m gonna go and get another job. They actually will fire you if you go and get another job. So for anybody that is receiving Section 8 benefits or trying to get benefits, you may not necessarily get that because there’s nobody there processing that. If you’re trying to get your veterans benefits, you may not get that. So any and everything that the federal government touches, it stops.”

MCKELVEY: “Damn. Well, whose fault is this, Jasmine? Because, you know, a Democrat says it’s Republicans’ fault. I saw J.D. Vance and Trump saying yesterday it was Democrats’ fault. So whose fault is it when Congress doesn’t want to do things like raise the nation’s debt ceiling?”

Crockett: “Okay, so the debt ceiling is completely different.”

MCKELVEY: “Oh, okay, okay. Okay. So it’s something different.”

Crockett: “Yeah, the debt ceiling is different, but he’s trying to throw that into our budget. Okay.”

MCKELVEY: “Okay.”

Crockett: “So basically, like, just pretend like you’re paying your bills for the month, and you got your mortgage, you got your car note, you got your utilities. So we have 12 appropriation — appropriation bills. We haven’t gotten through our budget. So basically it’s like, you know what, we’re just gonna hold this over, everything that we already been paying, we gonna keep paying it until March. That’s what the continuing resolution is, okay? But let’s say like you run out of money, you — your bills are higher than the money that you got coming in, right? That’s when you’ve hit basically your credit card limit. That’s the debt limit. Our debt ceiling will not be reached until next year and we’ll have to go through a fight to raise the limit and that kind of stuff. But we haven’t — we haven’t hit it. When they decided to get rid of Kevin McCarthy, it was Trump that was like, y’all need a new speaker because he raised the debt ceiling, but he knows that he’s about to run up our debt like he did the first time. So he wants to raise it before we’ve even hit the limit because he wants to run up our debt taking care of all these rich folk that he’s putting into his administration.”

MCKELVEY: “Oh, okay. So what do you think about when Elon — when Elon Musk said the government should shut down until Trump becomes president? What do you think about that?”

Crockett: “Listen, considering the fact that they don’t know how government works, I’m just gonna say that things will get real spicy if that happens. So listen, I don’t see us shutting down that long. I mean, if the Republicans are that ignorant, so be it. But this is what happens when you put very rich people over the government because they don’t care about the rest of us. They’re not gonna feel the same pain. They can go off to whatever random island or country they want to and wait it out and get taken care of. That is not the case for the average American. So, I mean, I just want y’all to understand that Elon Musk is puppeteering Donald Trump right now. He bought that presidency. For anybody that thought they were electing their homeboy, somebody was gonna take care of them, they ain’t — he ain’t consulted with y’all. It’s Elon that’s calling the shots.”