Allies and supporters of President-elect Donald Trump were shocked and outraged at a ‘woke’ post from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The government department, which will soon be led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. if he’s confirmed by the Senate, wished people a happy ‘Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day.’
The post on X read: ‘Today on Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day, everyone deserves to feel seen, respected and supported – no matter who they love. Create a world where everyone feels proud to be themselves!’
In a matter of hours, the post racked up thousands of more derisive comments than likes and attracted the attention of key figures in Trump’s orbit.
Stephen Miller, the senior advisor to Trump throughout Trump’s entire first term, had a simple message for the folks behind the HHS social media post.
‘Sanity is returning to HHS in 43 days,’ wrote Miller, who is making a comeback in Trump’s next administration as his Homeland Security adviser and White House deputy chief of staff for policy.
Republican Senator-elect Jim Banks from Indiana, who was been an ardent supporter of Trump, shared similar sentiments to Miller.
‘Glad this type of bulls*** will end on Jan 20! Can’t come soon enough,’ Banks replied to the HHS post.
Banks was Indiana’s representative from the third district since 2017 before running for Senate in 2024. The seat was vacated by Mike Braun who ran for Indiana governor this cycle and won.
Allie Beth Stuckey, a conservative commentator on BlazeTV, also piled onto Joe Biden’s HHS, writing: ‘I cannot wait for this degenerate embarrassment of an administration to end.’
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, behind documentaries ‘What Is a Woman’ and more recently ‘Am I Racist?’, was another prominent person to respond.
‘Counterpoint: people who describe themselves as “pansexual” or “panromantic” do not deserve to be seen, respected, or supported,’ he wrote.
A common reaction among X users was to call on Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to consider cutting the woke elements inside the HHS as the leaders of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE.
Many users even tagged Musk, Ramaswamy or even the official DOGE X account to steer their attention to this.
Trump tapped both men to ‘dismantle’ the $6.5 trillion bloated U.S. bureaucracy by heading the newly created DOGE last month.
They plan to cut wasteful regulations and spending by specifically targeting the number of federal government employees.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has been close to Trump ever since the election, met with Musk and Ramaswamy in an official capacity on Thursday to determine how exactly DOGE will carry out its mandate.
Musk has said he wants to cut $2 trillion in government spending and have come out with a plan to target $500 billion in spending that unauthorized by Congress. The exact cuts DOGE will recommend to Congress is still unclear.