'MAGA junkie' breaks into tears after DOGE eliminates her job: 'I expected better'
A self-described "MAGA junkie" from West Virginia tearfully recanted her vote for Donald Trump after her job was eliminated by the Department of Government Efficiency.
Jennifer Piggott, of Parkersburg, told CNN that she once flew a Trump flag outside her house in Wood County, where 70 percent of voters backed the president, but the DOGE team he established at billionaire backer Elon Musk's behest cut her job along with more 100 others at the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Fiscal Service.
"We had the flag, I had the shirt – I was a MAGA junkie," Piggott told CNN.
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Piggott's job was eliminated when DOGE gutted the bureau where she was classified as a probationary civil service worker.
"I cried," she said, tearing up again. "It’s scary, you know, it’s a really scary thing, and I was embarrassed."
DOGE cut Piggott and her colleagues over alleged poor performance, but she told CNN that she'd received "the highest rating" possible on a job review three weeks before she was fired, and she now regrets voting for Trump a third time.
“I’m not sure that I would have [voted for Trump], and the way that it’s been done," she said. "I’m for balancing the budget, that type of thing, but not, not in this context, it’s just not right."
A federal appeals court judge has refused to pause a ruling that requires the administration to reinstate more than 17,000 workers who lost their jobs across six agencies, but that's little consolation to Piggott, who said she has been targeted with vandalism and death threats since speaking out about the cuts.
"I expected better from [Trump], I really did," she said. "I expected that you would do what was right and cut waste and fraud and all of those things that you promised us before we elected you in office, but you're not doing that. You're creating a disaster, and I don't know what America is going to look like if this continues."
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