During a Sunday interview, CNN's Jake Tapper challenged Senator Rick Scott regarding Republican lawmakers' interactions with Elon Musk about job security in their districts. Tapper brought attention to how Musk's cuts had endangered essential services, while Oklahoma's Rep. Tom Cole reported successful advocacy preserving critical offices in the state. Scott, however, defended Musk and avoided directly addressing the issue, instead pointing to his own experiences with government efficiency and voter frustrations regarding waste, indicating a divide among Republicans on Musk's workforce reductions.
On Sunday's State of the Union, Tapper pressed Scott about whether he had any objection to Cole and others asking Musk to preserve jobs for their constituents. There are a lot of Republicans on Capitol Hill behind the scenes, uneasy with how Elon Musk has been cutting the workforce, not the goal of cutting out waste, fraud and abuse, but how he's been doing it, Tapper noted.
Scott sidestepped the question, defended Musk, and explained he had heard from voters who said they were fed up with government waste.
He's doing what I did when I became governor of Florida, Scott said. You look at every program.
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