Watters made an on-air plea to President Donald Trump on Wednesday’s (February 19) episode of The Five, urging him to be “less callous” when it comes to making these cuts. This came after a report revealed that the Pentagon had drawn up a list of probationary employees who could be targeted.

Fox News host Jesse Watters implored people to be “a little bit less callous” when speaking about the people facing job cuts at the Department of Government Efficiency as he sympathized with a friend working at the Pentagon anticipating being laid off.

DOGE for thee, but not for me?’ CNN anchor Abby Phillip quipped after airing a supercut of Jesse Watters praising the Elon Musk agency.

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

Fitness legend Jillian Michaels responded to Elon Musk's DOGE efforts and likened the removal of bloated government spending to that of a cancer on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

Former Democratic advisor Dan Turrentine admitted the party's effort to criticize Elon Musk's DOGE is 'terrible' as he uncovers and roots out wasteful federal spending.

Actor Zachary Levi is appealing to Elon Musk to not “let everybody fall through the cracks ... said Monday on Fox News’s “Jesse Watters Primetime.” “DOGE is complicated,” Levi continued of the sweeping cost-cutting efforts led by tech ...

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s purge of federal government employees ... you should not be in the same category as people that are doing DEI,” Watters added. Jesse Watters says he has a friend who is a veteran who is afraid they are going to fired ...