Three Key Takeaways:
- Harris Faulkner confronted former Representative Pat Murphy (D-PA) on Fox News, calling out Democrats for “barking at the wind” over the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce federal government waste, fraud, and abuse.
- Faulkner highlighted the reality of federal workforce cuts, pointing out that many of the employees being laid off are newly hired under Biden and are part of the inefficiencies Trump is targeting, not critical workers.
- Democrats have been trying to fearmonger voters by claiming that the layoffs will negatively affect essential services, but Faulkner pushed back, showing that veterans’ benefits are not being reduced and that the VA is working on streamlining its workforce for efficiency.
Democrats come on Fox News hoping to score some points for their team.
But they’re not used to getting pushback from the press.
And a Fox News star asked a Democrat one question that left them in shambles.
Harris Faulkner calls out a Democrat for “barking at the wind”
President Donald Trump has the Washington, D.C. Swamp in an uproar over his ambitious plan to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government.
Democrats are up in arms that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are helping Trump trim the fat from the federal workforce.
The Trump administration has offered buyouts, laid off, or fired tens of thousands of federal employees.
Democrats and their media allies are trying to turn fired federal employees into sympathetic figures to pull at the heartstrings of voters.
Former Representative Pat Murphy (D-PA) parroted one of the attack lines used by Democrats by claiming that DOGE resulted in 10,000 veterans losing their jobs during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s The Faulkner Focus.
Host Harris Faulkner pushed him on by pointing out that Democrats are “barking at the wind” about DOGE.
“What is your party doing other than barking to the wind?” Faulkner asked. “And look, I had on this very program recently the secretary of Veterans Affairs and what they are doing with the 400-plus thousand people that they have yet.”
Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins announced that 70,000 employees would be laid off at his agency.
Democrats rely on a big lie to reduce the size of the federal workforce
Democrats and the media want voters to believe that every employee of the federal government is performing a vital task to keep the country running.
Journalists have blamed federal layoffs for planes falling out of the sky, kids going hungry, and food going untested for chemicals and diseases.
The reality is that most of these employees are new hires in their probationary period who were brought in under former President Joe Biden.
Trump is getting rid of pencil pushers and busybody bureaucrats who are dead weight.
Faulkner pointed out that Veterans Affairs laying off employees would make the department able to work efficiently.
No benefits are being reduced for veterans.
“The benefits for veterans are going so slowly. They’re trying to speed up that number. They’re getting rid of people in the chain that don’t add to the benefits of veterans. So I want to look at a harder list of numbers than what you’ve just given the audience to really see. So, I’m going let you say what you say and then I’ll fact check it,” Faulkner told Murphy.
Murphy played the veteran angle again.
“One in three federal workers are veterans, right?” Murphy stated. “And again, I’m for cuts, I said, but we gotta be smart.”
PBS reported that one in four federal workers.
“I hear what you are saying,” Faulkner responded. “But you know me. I will let you say it but don’t be surprised if you don’t get a text.”
Democrats are trying to fearmonger voters into thinking the sky will fall if Trump downsizes the government.
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