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

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

April 2, 2025, 8:16 PM


A video of Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., telling a man on Capitol Hill who identified himself as a recently fired Health and Human Services employee that he "probably deserved it" because "you seem like a clown" has gone viral.

The man engaged with Banks in the video is identified as Mack Schroeder.

ABC has not independently confirmed that Schroeder is a fired federal employee, but Schroeder told CNN on Wednesday he wasn't at the Capitol to "get his job back" but wanted to ask lawmakers what they were going to do to ensure residents were "getting the services that they're entitled to."

"As we cut workers who are really ensuring that grants are going out the door to programs," Schroeder said on CNN. He said that he had worked on programs that support people with disabilities and older adults.

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Here was the video of this asshole -

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Another 'Marie Antoinette' moment

Shitty little comments like this only infuriate, and the backlash will be spectacular.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Fucking gaslighter liars: Cut services to ensure residents "get the services"

The "that they are entitled to" part is the duplicitous wiggle room. RepubliCONNERs think almost nobody is entitled to anything, except that white males are entitled to trad wives and promotions.

[travelingthrulife]

6. Yeah. Not sure I see him explaining anything. Just lying. A good Christian man.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Wow, what power! Banks can look at a person and just know he's a

'left-wing activist' and held a 'woke' job. What an awesome super power.

[Botany]

4. Mr. Schroeder worked to help people (Senior Citizens I think) in need the Senator works for the rich.

I hope Senator Banks is crushed by the blow back from his comments but in a
way he was being truthful about who he really is.

[wolfie001]

5. An offhand racist comment ended George Allen Jr.'s political career in Va.

Hopefully, there will be repercussions, but Indiana is a red-state hell-state.

[William769]

7. He's an asswipe.

[twodogsbarking]

8. Some people deserve a red hot poker up the poop shoot.

Jim Banks for instance.

[RazorbackExpat]

9. Republican politicians suck

No two ways about it

[Skittles]

10. everyone in the elevator looks like a smarmy fuck

yes INDEED