Laura Ingraham Dunks on Laid-Off Federal Employees: ‘Need To Get Real Jobs’
Laura Ingraham denigrated federal workers who have been laid off in recent weeks and said they now “need to get real jobs.”
Since taking office last month, President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk have fired thousands of government employees. Musk, as the leader of the “Department of Government Efficiency,” has taken particular glee in the endeavor. Last week, he brandished a chainsaw given to him by Argentinian President Javier Milei at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
“This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy!” Musk yelled. “Chainsaw!”
On Monday’s installment of The Ingraham Angle, the host said Democrats are trying to make the laid-off federal employees into sympathetic figures.
“How do you resurrect your party, though, by protecting red tape and the bureaucracy?” Ingraham said. “By trying to gin up sympathy for federal workers who need to get real jobs in the real world like most of America. Ever heard of it? Now, do Democrats really think that Americans will stop liking Trump because he fires these people?”
She then aired a clip of a federal worker on CNN complaining about an email Musk had sent out to federal employees. On Saturday, Musk announced that all federal employees – literally millions of people – would receive an email from the Office of Personnel Management asking them to explain what they did last week and said, “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.” The email was eventually sent, minus the “resignation” stipulation. But on Monday, it was reported that the OPM said responses were not mandatory.
“I felt absolutely infuriated getting this email with a demand within 48 hours to provide a response on what I did within the last week or face termination,” the worker, MT Snyder told CNN. “This is clearly an attempt from Elon Musk to harass and bully and intimidate the federal workforce, which is part of his broader plan to gut the federal workforce and privatize public sector services.”
Ingraham scoffed at the employee.
“Now, making a list of what you accomplished in a week, that she was whining about is ‘harassment’ and ‘bullying?'” she said. “Of course, because that requires, what? Fifteen minutes of work?”
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