Johns Hopkins University announced staff layoffs as a result of massive funding cuts to federal aid programs – where Watters’s sister works

Summary

Fox News host Jesse Watters, a vocal supporter of Trump and Elon Musk’s cuts, expressed frustration after his sister’s job at Johns Hopkins University was affected.

The university is laying off over 2,000 employees due to cuts in federally funded research, particularly from USAID, which Trump and Musk have sought to eliminate.

Watters previously defended DOGE but has softened his stance after seeing personal consequences, including a veteran friend losing a Pentagon job.

Critics argue DOGE disproportionately harms education and research institutions.

  • PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    62·
    6 hours ago

    Watters is a creep

    Watters, 43, shared the memory about his wife Emma DiGiovine, 29, during an episode of his panel series The Five last week, where he told his colleagues that he had relied on the tactic to get close to his then-colleague.

    “When I was trying to get Emma to date me, first thing I did, uh, I let the air out of her tyres,” Watters claimed. “She couldn’t go anywhere, she needed a lift. I said: ‘Hey, you need a lift?’ She hopped right in the car.”

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      11·
      5 hours ago

      “When I was trying to get Emma to date me, first thing I did, uh, I let the air out of her tyres,” Watters claimed. “She couldn’t go anywhere, she needed a lift. I said: ‘Hey, you need a lift?’ She hopped right in the car.”

      Ms. DiGiovine, how do you feel now that you’ve learned your whole married was born on a lie intentionally meant to make you feel unsafe so your now husband would be an attractive option to you in that moment?

  • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
    77·
    7 hours ago

    “I just saw some news that Trump took some grants away from Johns Hopkins where my sister works and now my mom is upset,” Watters told guest Ned Ryun, the founder of conservative nonprofit American Majority.

    “She’s texting me. It’s going to be a whole family thing, so we’re going to have to deal with that over the weekend,” Watters said.

    I can’t tell if he’s upset about his sister’s job or that his mom is going to be bothering the whole family about it.

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    7 hours ago

    tl;dr: “he’s only supposed to be hurting them, not me too”.

    • MsPenguinette@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 hours ago

      I try to take to heart that somebody is always learning about something basic for the first time and that that’s okay BUT where the hell have you been the last couple of months that you haven’t heard of DOGE the agency?!?!

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 hours ago

      Department of Government Efficiency

      And by efficiency, they mean efficiently padding Elon’s pockets and stealing data.

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      6 hours ago

      Read this comment.

      And in case you don’t want to click the link, here’s the meat and potatoes;

      …apparently watters’s family are pretty openly liberal and his mother regularly, publicly, criticizes him for the hatemonger he is.

      Still a cunt?