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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Rachel Leingang

‘I’m on the side of the workers’: the Minnesota senator calling out Trump and Musk

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Tina Smith speaks in Washington DC in 2024. Photograph: Samuel Corum/Getty Images

The American people “can see in Elon Musk and in Donald Trump” the “kind of jerk boss who just doesn’t respect the work that anybody does,” said the Democratic senator Tina Smith of Minnesota.

Smith has been bluntly calling out Musk and Trump since she made a strikingly rare decision in February for someone elected to one of the country’s top positions: she will leave her job, by choice, without some kind of scandal, at the end of her term.

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