"This guy is not a DEI consultant," Watters said on Fox News. "He is not a climate consultant. This guy is a veteran."

In an effort to cut costs for the US government, Elon Musk’s DOGE officials have been looking into the Department of Defense for areas they deem fit for a budget trim. The task force’s efforts are currently focused on terminating the roles of probationary federal employees.

Fox News host Jesse Watters criticized the Trump administration for the 'callous' federal cuts after a friend of his is among DOGE's Pentagon workforce firings.

The Fox News host also said people need to be more sensitive when it comes to discussing the layoffs, despite criticizing others for similar behavior a day earlier.

In a matter of days, Fox News host Jesse Watters went from commending DOGE for culling the federal workforce to asking his colleagues to be "less callous" when discussing layoffs.

Jesse Watters unleashed an emotional rant aim at Trump's administration's decision to lay off federal employees after his military veteran friend was "DOGE'd".

The Fox News anchor burst into an emotional live-on-air plea to President Donald Trump on behalf of his veteran friend, who is being "DOGE’d" in the impending Pentagon cuts