Former Republican Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty “bluntly” told a CNN panel Friday that the federal government needs “shock value” to fix its spending crisis.
House lawmakers avoided a government shutdown Friday evening after chaos erupted on Tuesday over a 1,574-page continuing resolution (CR) filled with provisions that could have wasted hundreds of billions of dollars. On “Erin Burnett OutFront,” guest host Sara Sidner asked Pawlenty for his thoughts on Elon Musk’s involvement in calling out the bill, citing allegations that Musk spread false information online.
Sidner cited three of Musk’s assertions on X (previously known as Twitter) and said that “many different outlets” had labeled them as false. The CNN host, however, did not identify even one of those outlets.
“It’s not clear whether he knew or didn’t know whether they were false. I would want to…
