Fox News Host Says Only People Who ‘Are Up In Arms’ About Trump, Musk Cuts Are ‘Unionized Government Bureaucrats’

“Fox and Friends Weekend” host Charlie Hurt said Thursday that protests against the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by “government bureaucrats” would not turn American voters against President Donald Trump.

After the Trump administration began implementing an executive order to reevaluate and realign foreign aid spending, Democratic members of Congress joined protestsoutside the headquarters of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Treasury Department Tuesday after DOGE Co-Chairman Elon Musk announced plans to shutter USAID. Hurt took aim at the protests, which he said consisted of people who were “three blocks” away.

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“It’s remarkable whenever we see one of these protests, we’ve seen a couple this week with Ed Markey, we’ve seen one with Chuck Schumer, a couple of others,” Hurt told “Varney and Company” host Stuart Varney. “They are trying to get millions or at least thousands of people to march in the streets in Washington, D.C. The problem is they just come three blocks from somewhere else in Washington, D.C. Those are the only people who care about these cuts that DOGE is trying to make to these government practices.”

“The only people who are up in arms about it are government bureaucrats, often unionized government bureaucrats,” Hurt continued. “There’s no movement in the rest of the country among taxpayers, because taxpayers understand what is obvious, and it becomes more obvious the more of these stories that come out, and that is that the government spends wildly on things that have nothing to do in terms of improving their lives.”