The latter had Fox News' Peter Doocy asking the White House Tuesday with Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency run by Elon Musk looking to shed hundreds of thousands of workers, how are those people incentivized to retire if their savings are drying up?

President Donald Trump may have been trying to reassure his supporters about the country’s so-called “period of transition” on Fox News this week, but one reporter is still seeking an explanation for the “throttled” 401(k) accounts of soon-to-retire Americans.

Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy argued that President Donald Trump was struggling with his mission to convince federal workers to retire because their stock market portfolios were being "throttled" under the weight of his tariffs.