CNN’s Dana Bash blew the whistle on Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) after he claimed on Sunday that he was made aware of a government funding bill the House was set to vote on last week by Elon Musk.

Hagerty claimed Musk’s posting about the bill on X, formerly Twitter, allowed him and others to know what was in the more-than-1,500-page piece of legislation, which Bash did not buy.

On Sunday’s State of the Union, Bash noted Musk posted about his opposition to the bill early Wednesday morning before President-elect Donald Trump also opposed it.

“Then, senator, he posted 75 times over the course of that day attacking the bill, pressuring Republicans to tank it,” Bash noted. “Donald Trump didn’t weigh in publicly for more than 12 hours, and only did so after it was clear Republicans were following Musk’s lead and turning on the bill.”

Bash asked the Tennessee Republican, “So did Donald Trump only pick this fight because Elon Musk backed him into a corner?” Hagerty replied:

I certainly wouldn’t say that. And I say thank God Elon Musk bought Twitter because that’s the only way we would even know what’s in this bill otherwise. The conspiracy between the government and Twitter would have continued, and this would have all been covered up. But the fact is that Elon Musk exposing this meant that every one of our offices was inundated with calls from our constituents. The American public wanted to see this change. Donald Trump was speaking on behalf of the American public. Again, he’s just the president-elect. The current president is AWOL. But Donald Trump stepped up and said, look, this is what needs to happen. And I think all of my constituents, all of my constituents were there. The calls, at least that I got in my office, Elon Musk’s transparency helped make that happen.

Bash pushed back on the senator’s claim that Musk singlehandedly pointed out to him what was in the bill.

She said, “I understand it was quite large at the beginning, but to say that it was only Elon Musk that made people aware of what was in it, that – that can’t be true.” Hagerty replied:

No, I’m not saying it was only Elon Musk. We’re all struggling to read it to digest an over 1500 page bill that we were literally given just hours to comb through. I was working through it. My staff didn’t sleep the night before. It’s extraordinarily frustrating. But I think the added weight of the American public understanding and simple picture that Elon Musk put forward showing the size of the stack of what we originally presented, we started out with over 1500 pages. We got it down to 120 pages.

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