Trump defender hammered for comparing VA vet firings by DOGE to 'cleaning out the garage'
Attorney Arthur Aidala defended federal employee firings under Donald Trump's administration during a CNN appearance on Saturday morning, but angered his fellow panelists after he was confronted with America's veterans also seeing their jobs taken away which he blew off.
Seated next to CNN conservative S.E. Cupp, the attorney attempted to make the case that the Elon Musk-headed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was doing Americans a favor by getting rid of thousands of jobs and replacing them with AI and computers that he claimed will be more efficient.
It was when mention of veterans working at the VA being swept up in the purge of federal workers came up, in conjunction with him comparing the firings to "cleaning out the garage," when things got heated and "Table for Five" host Sara Sidner lost control due to all the shouting.
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"I just don't think we should compare firing veterans from the VA to cleaning out the garage," Cupp admonished Aidala as he talked over her and she could be heard uttering, "Gross."
With order briefly restored, she continued, "Like Gretchen [Carlson], I'm a conservative ... I want to cut fraud and waste. I want to make the government smaller, but there's a smart way to do it and we're talking about human capital."
"That's not the same thing as cleaning out the garage and, unfortunately, I feel like Elon and Trump see it your way –– like we're just cleaning out the garbage, which is actually humans. Humans like veterans and humans like air traffic controllers, AKA people who know stuff," she continued.
Undeterred the attorney replied, "That's life, that how it works in all big corporations."
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