GOP senator defends telling man who said he was fired from HHS he ‘probably deserved’ it

Video by Senator Jim Banks, R-Ind.

The man engaged in banks in the video has been identified as Mack Schroeder.

ABC did not confirm that Schroeder was a fired federal employee, but Schroeder told CNN on Wednesday that he was not in Capitol to “return his job”, but wants to ask MPs what they would do to ensure that residents “receive the services they are entitled”.

“As we reduce workers who really guarantee that the grants are going out the door to the programs,” Schroeder said at CNN. He said he worked on programs that support people with disabilities and adult adults.

“So, I hoped that he would have, you know, some plan to say that this was the reason to cut workers. Here’s how we would continue to support the residents in Indiana. But he just answered as you saw,” Schroeder said.

Schroeder told the USA Today that he was among a small group of other fired federal workers protesters on Tuesday when he recorded the interaction with banks, telling him: “Hi, I was a HHS worker. I was fired on February 14th. Are there many people who do not receive social services programs, especially people with disorders.

Banks then told Schroeder that he probably deserved to be fired.

Schroeder told CNN that he was shocked by Banks’ sharp reaction.

“First of all, I didn’t ask him what he was doing to help me recover in his position? I didn’t ask,” Why did you fire me? What will you do to make sure that I and other employees get their job? “I just wondered,” What do you do for social services that are specifically reduced for people with disabilities? “Schröder told CNN.

“He didn’t even answer my question … I haven’t heard an answer yet what the plan is, as many of these employees are shortening and the programs are potentially protected,” he added.

Shortly after Schroeder’s advent, Banks appeared at CNN and pointed to Schroeder as a “instigator” that was “in the corridors of the Senate office buildings every day, pursuing Republicans like me and reaches for Democrats walking down the corridors.”

“It doesn’t take much here to get out of the fact that he is a left -wing activist and what I have no tolerance for is someone who believes that he has the right to work funded by taxpayers.”

He stood up to Schroeder’s interaction and said he was glad Trump was eliminating wasteful jobs in the government.

“I will not deviate or apologize or apologize for what I have to say [Tuesday]S This was a calculated activist of the instigator in the hallways of the Senate and I do not have much tolerance for it. “

Asked by CNN if there were similar opinions for any employee who was fired, Banks replied: “Of course not. My comments were directed to this associate, who, again, could not even explain what he was doing. It was a wake -up job that wasted taxpayers and I am grateful that President Trump was eliminating this job.”

Banks completely embrace the blowing it receives.

First, he redirected the video of his exchange to the X in which he saw to call the man a “clown”, adding “hard truth.”

Former NFL star receiver Antonio Brown called the Creker of the Day banks, and Banks replied, “Thank you, Ab. It’s an honor for me!”

He also changed the photo of his profile to his smiling face through the crack of the elevator door and another video post, in which he stated: “I will not apologize for talking to the truth. 100% support President Trump’s mission and Dog to say that expenses and government waste is awakening.”

And another post of X: “I have no sympathy for left -wing activists who have been released from overpayment positions that should never exist. I have sympathy for the hardworking hosels whose tax dollars have been wasted when bankrupt in these positions.”