Under hearing “Emergency” panel Addressing the effects of doges on Virginia's workforce, lawmakers evoked famous Holocaust-related quotes from reformed German clergymen who once identified with the Nazi Party.
Virginia representative Joshua Cole claimed at Richmond's hearing Friday that his members were in the state's most concentrated congressional district.
The call, representing Fredericksburg, is D-Va from District 7. Sitting inside Senator Eugene Vindman. According to the Virginia Public Access Project, District 8 of Don Bayer, north of Alexandria, lives with more federal workers.
“I have to say I have seen so many different people on social media. [DOGE] Cut; I'm rather excited about these unemployment,” Cole said.
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“And that reminds me of an old quote: “In the beginning they came for the Jews. “I wasn't a unionist, so when they came for me, who Mo was taken away, so no one could talk.”
The quote was famous by Pastor Martin Niemerer, pastor who was reportedly briefly identified as Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party before becoming a famous critic in the late 1930s and was thrown into concentration camps. This was a rough translation of “Confessions” in 1946. .
Niemerer's confession “Have Ich Geschwiegen”, or “I was silent” – Hitler accumulates more and more power, and more and more people with his rise as Kanzler, or Prime Minister He explained the guilt that many German intellectuals felt as a result of persecution.
During the hearing, Cole said he recalled a similar emergency committee that has been enpaneled to deal with the 2020 launch of the coronavirus pandemic.
“The difference between then and now is that we have extra money in. We are not going to put in any extra money. In fact, we are going to lose money in this situation.” He warned.
“And I'm very interested in how the loss of federal income money affects our community.”
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He also expressed concern about how Doge will handle the upcoming opening of Spotsylvania Veterans' Hospital. About 144,000 Virginians are federal employees, according to Congressional Research Services.
Fox News Digital has contacted Cole's offices in Richmond and Fredericksburg for comment.
House Minority Leader Todd Gilbert, R. Woodstock, reverberated on the issue of Fox News Digital on Monday, with Cole to apologise for Holocaust survivors and “all Virginia citizens, totally insensitive and hyperbolic remarks.” He said that.
“Comparing the loss of jobs in some governments with the Holocaust is a shaming to the memory of millions of people slaughtered. [by the Nazi regime]Gilbert said.
Fox News Digital also reached out to the responses from D-Fairfax's David Bulova Committee Chairman and R-Cape Charles Vice President Robert Bloxom.
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German Rev. Martin Niemerer (1892-1984) is working on a press conference on the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches in Chichester, held at the Journalist Institute on July 15, 1949. (Douglas Miller/Keystone/Halton Archives/Getty Images)
Lt. Col. Winsam Sears, the current Republican frontrunner at the governor's 2025 race, denounced Cole's comments.
“Virginia wasted spending in awkward comparison with the Holocaust, a trivial matter of murders of six million Jews,” Sears wrote in X.
“Did Josh Cole just compare government waste to the Holocaust?” asked Mason DiPalma, an official with the Republican State Leadership Committee.
“Virginia Dem[ocrats] There really is no message, and it shows. ”
