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Hakeem Jeffries agrees with Elon Musk? Progressives do not, nor should any Democrat or American. [1]
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Date: 2025-06-08
The clip with Hakeem Jeffries saying he agrees with Musk will do much more damage even if out of context. It is not a joke. And here is why!
Hakeem Jeffries agrees with Elon Musk?
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries briefly aligned himself with billionaire Elon Musk in denouncing the GOP’s latest tax-and-spending bill—a move grassroots progressives view as tone-deaf because the out-of-context clip validates a tycoon who still bankrolls austerity, union-busting, and billionaire-friendly politics.
Jeffries framed his agreement with Musk around the bill’s “disgusting abomination,” which figuratively ignores Musk’s long record of demanding even deeper cuts to public services.
Rural hospital closures have already topped 190 since 2005; further budget cuts will accelerate that collapse and endanger millions.
The bill’s giveaways to corporations underline why progressives insist “money is not speech” and corporations are not people.
Musk’s sudden split with Trump proves corporate loyalty shifts with profit margins, not with community needs.
Only door-to-door organizing, not billionaire alliances, can galvanize voters whom both major parties’ consultant class has abandoned.
Jeffries’s sound-bite may score a news cycle, but it blurs the deeper lesson: populist victories come from grassroots infrastructure, not Silicon Valley patronage.
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