'My life is disintegrating': Fired fed workers finding no sympathy from MAGA relatives

Having suffered the indignity of being capriciously fired by young staffers employed by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), some former federal workers are dealing with unsympathetic relatives who support Donald Trump's government employee purge.

According to a report in the Boston Herald, fired civil servants are busy applying for unemployment checks and using the medical benefits still available to them to load up on medications while at the same time getting tepid support on the home front.

As the report notes, "Expecting sympathy, some axed workers are finding family and friends who instead are steadfast in their support of what they see as a bloated government’s waste."

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24-year-old Luke Tobin, who was axed from his job working for the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho confessed, "I’ve been treated as a public enemy by the government and now it’s bleeding into my own family."

During his interview, Tobin added some relatives believe his dismissal is what needs to happen "to make the government great again” before adding, "They can’t separate their ideology and their politics from supporting their own family and their own loved ones.”

Kristin Jenn, who was on the verge of starting her job with the Forest Service, claimed she has faced the same lack of sympathy.

"My life is disintegrating because I can’t work in my chosen field,” the 47-year-old living in Austin explained. “Lump on top of that no support from family – it hits you very hard.”

Jenn noted that her mother, a federal employee herself, still supports Trump.

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“She has somehow been convinced that public servants are a parasite and unproductive even though she was a public servant,” she pointed out.

The report states, "Eric Anderson, 48, of Chicago, was still absorbing the shock of being fired from his National Parks Service job as a biological science technician when he came across his aunt’s social media post celebrating the DOGE cuts. The gist, Anderson said, was, 'Man, it sure is great seeing all this waste being knocked off,'" which led him to angrily complain, "Do you think I’m a waste? There are a lot of people out there that are hurting right now that are not a waste.”

Riley Rackliffe, who was employed as aquatic ecologist at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, was advised by a friend who texted him, "Hey, I’m sorry you lost your job but I think we really need to cut out some of this waste in the government, he added, "He basically said, ’We’ve got to do this. We’ve got to rip off the Band-Aid.'"

Addressing the president who is ultimately responsible for the mass firings, he continued, "It’s really hurtful for the president to insinuate that you don’t exist or that your job consisted of sitting at home doing nothing and cashing the paycheck. I’d like to see him sifting through spiny naiad in 120-degree weather looking for parasitic snails. He’s the one that goes golfing on the government dime. I don’t even know how to golf.”

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