Insight: DOGE job cuts bring pain to Trump heartland

[UpInArms]

PARKERSBURG, West Virginia, March 7 (Reuters) - Jennifer Piggott proudly hung a red-and-blue Trump campaign flag outside her one-story home during the November election race. Now, after she was abruptly fired from her civil service job, her days of supporting the president are over.

Piggott is among more than 125 people dismissed in February from the Treasury Department's Bureau of Fiscal Service in Parkersburg, West Virginia, unsettling a community that voted overwhelmingly for Republican President Donald Trump.

"Nobody that I've talked to understood the devastation that having this administration in office would do to our lives," Piggott, 47, told Reuters in an interview, saying she would not have supported Trump if she knew then what she knows now.

"As much as I think that President Trump is doing wonderful things for the country in some regards, I don't understand this at all," she said.

Piggott worked at BFS for five years and had recently been promoted. That promotion made her a target as the Trump administration began firing thousands of probationary federal workers - a group that includes new hires but also existing workers moving from one internal position to another.

The renunciation of allegiance to Trump by Piggott, a church-going conservative and three-time Trump voter, comes as political analysts are parsing early signs of a possible backlash in Republican strongholds where the government-slashing efforts of the president and his cost-cutting czar Elon Musk are beginning to be felt.

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[republianmushroom]

1. With more pain to come.

[Ocelot II]

2. Some of them still support Comrade Krasnov - go figure.

But the leopards are just getting started. 🐆

[sop]

3. One MAGA moron at a time.

[Scrivener7]

4. Good

[GreenWave]

5. The Orange antiChrist strikes again.

[dugog55]

6. As long as it was happening to someone else, she was fine with it.

Then it happens to her and over 100 others, and none of them can understand why. But in the next breath, she still idolizes Trump for doing wonderful things so far. Sheesh, some people are so thick it is incredible.

[kimbutgar]

7. Excellent I want them to all suffer greatly for voting for the orange Hitler

We saw what he did the first time and now they stupidity voted for him again. I hope they suffer biggly!

[andym]

9. The amount of brainwashing and in-group reinforcement is very high in MAGA areas

basically start with the idea that only the GOP supports traditional American values like hard work or American brand of christianity and build on that allegiance with an large package of self-reinforcing propaganda.

[keep_left]

10. "He's not hurting the right people!".

These idiots keep showing up in the news; they never learn. They're always there to cheer on Trump as he attacks all the people that they hate, never once considering that they might also end up as victims.

https://democraticunderground.com/100220076901#post11

That quote was from a NYT arrticle back in 2019.

The full quote is "I thought he was going to do good things. He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting!"...Trump's policies weren't attacking the brown people enough, and were in fact harming nice white people like her.

https://democraticunderground.com/100219566515#post2
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/florida-government-shutdown-marianna.html
https://democraticunderground.com/100219776302#post82