GOP senator says there 'have to be guardrails' on Musk as Jim Jordan insists 'God bless him!'

CNN’s Manu Raju on Sunday pressed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) about Elon Musk's involvement in the federal government after a Republican senator expressed concern about potential conflicts of interest with the billionaire founder of SpaceX.

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) told Raju he believes there should be “some guardrails” on Musk’s work with the government. Musk helms the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a “temporary organization” established by a Trump executive order with the stated purpose of “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.”

Cramer insisted “there have to be guardrails, obviously, on what information [Musk] accesses — but more importantly, what he does with it.”

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“As a major defense contractor, as a major government contractor, there have to be some guardrails,” Cramer later added

Raju asked Jordan about Cramer’s remark on Sunday, noting “there could be a conflict here.”

Jordan argued “the guardrails are you all in the press who are talking about it everyday.”

“All I know is he’s a special employee of the president of the United States,” Jordan said. “… I think the American people appreciate the effort and the work that he’s doing.”

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“The fact that he’s exposed the ridiculous things our money is being spent on, I think the American people said, ‘Yeah, we sort of always had this suspicion and now we’re seeing the evidence. And God bless him for bringing that information’ — and frankly, more importantly, God bless him for the work he did in exposing what other journalists … have called the ‘censorship industrial complex.”

“You guys should have been helping us with that, instead you’re attacking Elon Musk.”

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