Fox host: Trump voters who are “casualties” of federal layoffs are just part of closing the budget gap
Brian Kilmeade: “That's going to be one of the casualties of having to take a $2.7 million federal workforce and knock it down to maybe half of that”
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From the February 24, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): And almost every agency wants him, them to come in. So go ahead and gut. Treasury. You know what helps? Because cabinet secretaries got certain responsibilities, and the president has got to get elected, and people -- but when you have somebody from the outside come in and make some tough cuts, you could say, 'I don't have my hands in that.' The blow back they are getting in some of these town halls is real. I'm sure there's some people in there that voted for Trump that said, "I walked into work and I lost my job." But that's going to be one of the casualties of having to take a $2.7 million federal workforce and knock it down to maybe half of that. So, I think we got a heads up on it. I think the president would do himself a favor, and the treasury secretary especially just saying hey, we have a $7 trillion budget, we only make 5.9 trillion, the revenue gap is 2 trillion. This is part of closing that gap, is lessening the responsibility. It's not punitive.