Former Biden Press Secretary Kendra Barkoff predicted that backlash would swiftly come for X owner Elon Musk once Americans start to personally feel the impacts of his Department of Government Efficiency.
During a CNN roundtable discussion, Barkoff said there would be no way that Musk would be able to lie about the impacts of the massive cuts he's making to key government agencies and services.
"I think this is going to play out in the real world," she said. "And what's going to happen is grandma is going to stop getting some of her checks. You saw it with the OMB freeze. They got so much backlash from the Republican Party themselves, they were saying to the White House, 'This is not working for me.'"
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She then pointed to the example of Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), who expressed concerns about Musk hacking funding that the National Institutes of Health provides to universities for scientific research.
CNN Host Jim Sciutto, however, asked Barkoff if Democrats' best political strategy was to simply let the government fall apart before trying to do anything to stop it.
"We need to be out there doing more to talk about it," Barkoff acknowledged. "But there are real-life implications about how these cuts, these freezes, and these jobs will actually affect people in their day-to-day lives."
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