'She believed him': Fired federal worker devastated over Trump's broken promises
A rural Michigan federal worker who reluctantly cast her 2024 presidential vote for Donald Trump because she believed his promises about lowering the cost of living has now found herself out of a job she loved.
In a Washington Post profile, 24-year-old Ryleigh Cooper detailed her difficult decision to vote for the man who, just three months after the election, would dash her hopes and dreams of a career in forestry and the ability to access IVF for a child she badly wanted.
"Trump, at a campaign stop an hour and a half south of her, had promised to make IVF free. She knew that from a video clip she saw on TikTok. And she had believed him," wrote reporter Emily Davies. "She also believed him when he said that Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican administration that suggested mass cuts to the federal workforce, was not his plan."...