{"id":852748,"date":"2025-06-01T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/gop-senator-says-he-wont-apologize-after-telling-fired-hhs-employee-he-probably-deserved-it\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T03:13:00","slug":"gop-senator-says-he-wont-apologize-after-telling-fired-hhs-employee-he-probably-deserved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/gop-senator-says-he-wont-apologize-after-telling-fired-hhs-employee-he-probably-deserved-it\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senator\u00a0says he &#8216;won&#8217;t apologize&#8217; after telling fired HHS employee he &#8216;probably deserved it&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) on Wednesday said he \u201cwon\u2019t apologize\u201d for telling a fired Health and Human Services (HHS) employee that he \u201cprobably deserved it,\u201d after video footage of the exchange was widely circulated on social media.   The viral video showed former HHS employee Mack Schroeder approaching Banks in a Senate office building on&#8230; Sarah Fortinsky <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5229211-senator-jim-banks-wont-apologize-fired-hhs-employee\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) on Wednesday said he \u201cwon\u2019t apologize\u201d for telling a fired Health and Human Services (HHS) employee that he \u201cprobably deserved it,\u201d after video footage of the exchange was widely circulated on social media. The viral video showed former HHS employee Mack Schroeder approaching Banks in a Senate office building on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":852749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144345,1583],"tags":[144344,5162],"class_list":["post-852748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-senator-says","category-wont","tag-senator-says","tag-wont"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}