{"id":2408025,"date":"2025-02-28T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T20:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jb-pritzker-trump-handed-government-over-to-elon-musk\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T15:44:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T20:44:25","slug":"jb-pritzker-trump-handed-government-over-to-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jb-pritzker-trump-handed-government-over-to-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"JB Pritzker: Trump handed government over to Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjb-pritzker-trump-handed-government-over-to-elon-musk%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2408025&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent interview with \u200cABC News, Illinois Governor J.B. pritzker criticized former President Donald Trump and\u2062 billionaire Elon Musk, claiming that Trump &#8220;handed over&#8221; government control \u2062to \u200bMusk, who\u200b he accused of gaining power through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-senator-claims-rant-during-barrett-confirmation-is-reason-court-upheld-obamacare\/\" title=\"Democratic Senator Claims Rant During Barrett Confirmation Is Reason Court Upheld Obamacare\">financial contributions<\/a> rather than democratic processes. Pritzker argued that unelected figures like Musk,who are out of touch with the everyday struggles of Americans,have undue influence over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-reasons-an-all-hands-on-deck-meeting-with-biden-might-not-be-enough-to-stop-a-government-shutdown\/\" title=\"Three reasons why a meeting with Biden may not prevent a ... shutdown\">crucial government functions<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">including economic issues<\/a>\u2063 such \u200bas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-about-7-in-10-americans-say-biden-economy-is-terrible\/\" title=\"Poll: About 7 in 10 ... Say Biden Economy Is Terrible\">rising grocery prices<\/a>. He expressed \u200dconcerns over the\u200c potential \u2062erosion of democracy, likening current events to historical precedents of government overreach. Pritzker&#8217;s remarks reflect growing\u2064 unease amongst\u2064 voters regarding the impact of wealthy individuals in politics and governance.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">JB Pritzker: Trump handed government over to Elon Musk, who &lsquo;bought his way in&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2023809\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jb-pritzker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"J.B. 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Pritzker<\/a> (D-IL) took digs at billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Elon Musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-government-efficiency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Department of Government Efficiency <\/a>efforts and said President Donald Trump &ldquo;handed over&rdquo; the government to the tech entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>In a Friday interview with ABC News&rsquo;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/the-view\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"The View\">The View<\/a><\/em>, co-host Sunny Hostin asked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/illinois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Illinois\">Illinois<\/a> governor about Musk being an &ldquo;unelected person&rdquo; who has &ldquo;so much power.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Are Trump supporters, you think, having voters&rsquo; remorse?&rdquo; Hostin asked. &ldquo;Because you said the prices at the grocery store are going up because you said &lsquo;democracy is being taken away.&rsquo; Egg prices are set to rise actually by 40%.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, because, look, you think Elon Musk goes and buys eggs at the grocery store?&rdquo; Pritzker said on the ABC show. &ldquo;He has no idea what&rsquo;s happening. Your tomato prices are going up because we&rsquo;ll pay 25% tariffs on tomatoes coming from Mexico, right? So it&rsquo;s just an example, but it&rsquo;s people who have been put in charge, right? The most powerful, the wealthiest people have been put in charge, and they&rsquo;re unelected. They don&rsquo;t understand, they didn&rsquo;t get elected by everyday Americans to do anything.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2821356&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=50bdba17fd4e10a15adefe69cf532345\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;They just got appointed by Donald Trump because they gave huge contributions,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;In the case of Elon Musk, $250 million that we know of that he gave to him and bought his way in.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump basically handed the government over to this guy and so, yeah, that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s happening,&rdquo; the governor added.<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Sara Haines asked the Illinois governor about the Trump administration&rsquo;s DOGE efforts to defund agencies and programs and the laying off of government workers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Incompetence, let&rsquo;s start with that,&rdquo; he responded to Haines. &ldquo;That is what we&rsquo;re seeing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The reason I think that Americans are beginning to react, and you&rsquo;ll see more of it, is that the very things that people rely upon every day. It&rsquo;s your veteran services, people who need therapy, they go to Veterans Administration for that; making sure that you&rsquo;re flying safely; making sure in my state we have poultry and meat inspectors seems pretty important to all of us here.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3333426\/musk-asks-retired-air-traffic-controllers-come-back-to-work-address-shortage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"MUSK ASKS RETIREED AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS TO COME BACK TO WORK TO ADDRESS SHORTAGE\"><strong>MUSK ASKS RETIRED AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS TO COME BACK TO WORK TO ADDRESS SHORTAGE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pritzker also likened the administration to Nazi Germany, a comparison he shared last week on CNN and during a public address.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been 38 days since the president took over, and he has slowly, steadily, actually, relatively quickly, I guess I should say, but every day, eroded your rights, and everything that he has done has been tearing down constitutional democracy, and that&rsquo;s what happened in Nazi Germany,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;And I&rsquo;m not suggesting that we&rsquo;re heading all the way down that path, but I am suggesting &hellip; it should be a red alert.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2023809\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2023809\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pritzker: Trump gave government to Musk, who &#8216;bought in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2678,"featured_media":2408026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/JB-Pritzker.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32192,5045,36745,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2408025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-elon-musk","tag-government","tag-jb-pritzker","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/JB-Pritzker.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408029,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408025\/revisions\/2408029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}