MSNBC’s host of All In, Chris Hayes, got the facts wrong on Thursday as he criticized Elon Musk, who was preparing to make his way out of office. As a special government employee, Musk was granted only 130 days to lead DOGE in rooting out waste and corruption within the government. In that time, Musk has cut an estimated $175 billion in unnecessary spending across the board. However, Hayes asserted that Musk’s step down had nothing to do with the expiration of his work period, but rather being a result of the fact that “No one likes the guy.”
Hayes huffed that, “Earlier this month, The Atlantic … quotes the General Counsel for the American Federation of Government Employees as saying, quote, ‘We kicked him out of town. If he had stayed in the shadows and done this stuff, who knows how bad it would have been? But no one likes the…