'MAGA Junkie' Fired in DOGE Cuts Now Regrets Voting for Trump: 'I Expected Better'

[Eugene]

Also: 'MAGA Junkie' Trump Voter Has Big Regrets After Losing Government Job In DOGE Purge (HuffPost)

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Source: The Daily Beast

SHE'S BEEN DOGED

‘MAGA Junkie’ Fired in DOGE Cuts Now Regrets Voting for Trump: ‘I Expected Better’

“I was a MAGA junkie, a MAGA junkie who thought her government job would be safe with Donald Trump in office,” says West Virginia woman fired from the Bureau of Fiscal Service.

Leigh Kimmins
Reporter
Published Mar. 28 2025 6:33AM EDT

A self-confessed ’MAGA junkie’ from a red-voting city devastated by Department of Government Efficiency firings has said she regrets voting for Donald Trump.

In the lead-up to the election in November last year, Jennifer Piggott, from Parkersburg, West Virginia, flew a Trump flag outside her house. She was not the only one; her community in Wood County voted overwhelmingly for the Republican candidate, who scooped 70 percent of the votes in the area.

But just weeks into Trump 2.0, the president let Piggott and others like her down by firing 125 probationary civil service workers. The Treasury Department’s Bureau of Fiscal Service—which effectively acts as the government’s day-to-day bank—was gutted, and so was Piggott.

Speaking to CNN Live in a broadcast shown Thursday, Pigott said she cried after she was axed. “I was a MAGA junkie, a MAGA junkie who thought her government job would be safe with Donald Trump in office. I cried. It’s scary, you know, it’s a really scary thing, and I was embarrassed,” she said.

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-junkie-fired-in-doge-cuts-now-regrets-voting-for-trump-i-expected-better/

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Source: HuffPost

'MAGA Junkie' Trump Voter Has Big Regrets After Losing Government Job In DOGE Purge

The one-time supporter also offered a message directly to the president.

By Ed Mazza
Mar 28, 2025, 05:00 AM EDT
|Updated 6 hours ago

A self-described “MAGA junkie” who voted for President Donald Trump last year told CNN she now regrets her decision after losing her job at the Treasury Department as part of the DOGE purge orchestrated by Elon Musk.

“I cried,” Jennifer Piggott told the network. “It’s a really scary thing, and I was embarrassed.”

She said targeting working-class Americans for layoffs “just doesn’t make sense” to her.

“I expected more from President Donald Trump,” she told CNN.

Another worker at the same facility who did not want to be identified retired rather than face a layoff to keep her health insurance. Like Piggott, she voted for Trump.

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Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/maga-junkie-regrets_n_67e6582ee4b0f69ef1d32435

[sakabatou]

1. Another "victim" of face eating leopards

[UpInArms]

2. These people are too stupid to breathe

[KPN]

3. Fucking idiot. That is all.

[Lovie777]

4. Me me me me me me ......

but it happened to me, shithole lied. Sad now.

[EndlessWire]

5. Why did she "expect better?"

He himself told her the massive chaos he was planning. Everyone else but MAGA told her the devastation to come should he regain the WH. HOW STUPID IS SHE? FAFO.

She voted in a monster. He is now destroying our nation. She'll be lucky if all she loses is her job. Kiss your country goodbye.

She needs to get ready to march. Practice those sign making skills, and get ready.

[brush]

6. And another bites the dust. Too bad, so sad.

[Demovictory9]

7. CNN spoke to a second woman, afraid to reveal her identity for fear of retribution, who retired from the Bureau of Fisca

CNN spoke to a second woman, afraid to reveal her identity for fear of retribution, who retired from the Bureau of Fiscal Service because she feared losing her health insurance if she was axed.

“I’m not sure that I would have [voted for Trump], and the way that it’s been done... I’m for balancing the budget, that type of thing, but not, not in this context, it’s just not right,” she said.

The Bureau employs some 2,000 people in the city of 29,000

[Prairie Gates]

8. These people live in a place where there's nothing to fucking do, so the government

throws them some jobs, sure, why not. You can do this needed work in Parkersburg, fine. Mind you, they moved it there and ended up costing Democrats their jobs in Maryland and NoVa, but fine, OK, you want to live in WVa so here are some jobs for you.

Then these absolutely hare-brained ingrates agitate for a guy who tells them over and over that he's going to cut government jobs to nothing. These idiots who work for the federal government as a goddamn favor to them shit all over the jobs that we gave them as a fucking favor, and then are upset when the guy who told them he was going to cut federal jobs cuts their federal job.

Like, honestly FUCK YOU, Jennifer Piggot, you fucking moron. The rest of us went out of our goddamn way to make sure you had a job in fucking Parkersburg, West Virginia as a fucking favor to you and your community, and you shit all over it and now you've lost it. Wallow in your own shit, stupid. If we ever get to resuscitate these jobs, put them in a place where people know how to do basic political analysis about their own futures. NOT Parkersburg West Virginia.

[meadowlander]

9. She's going to keep voting for Republicans too.

She's just hoping if she raises her profile enough they'll hire her back as a "good soldier".

[Tribetime]

10. F off you put the rest if us in this dire situation which we may never

Recover from.

[Sky Jewels]

11. Don't worry, Jen Jen!

The most important thing is that Dear Leader has kept you safe from trans kids wanting to play sports!

[Biophilic]

12. The selfish is overwhelming.

Do they have a thought about anything but themselves?

[dobleremolque]

13. Lip lickin' leopard sez FAFO.....

[keep_left]

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

That was from a 2019 article in the NYT that read pretty much the same as this one.

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/100220113780#post10

That was the bon mot from an interview with a MAGA chud in the NYT. Chud lives are apparently miserable enough that if Trump isn't beating up on minorities, poor people, LGBTQ, etc. on a regular basis, they go into a tailspin because Trump isn't giving them their constant media dopamine hit to which they have become accustomed.

https://democraticunderground.com/100220076901#post11

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

[Best_man23]

15. FAFO, the Finding Out is the Hardest Part

She. Voted. For. That. To. Happen.

No tears.

[LS0999]

16. At least this one admitted to being a junkie.

Those face eating leopards are getting fat

[DFW]

17. Big regrets, but NOT ONCE DO WE HEAR THIS:

“I got what I voted for. I’ll vote differently next time.”

[Norrrm]

18. Relax! Rejoice! You got what you wanted.... Donald in the WH.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. A self identified "MAGA junkie" says she regrets her vote and has taken down her Trump sign after she was fired by DOGE.

Link to tweet

[tanyev]

20. I could maybe, maybe see the disappointment if this were Trump's first term.

BUT FFS, HIS FIRST TERM WAS FOUR YEARS OF CHAOS, INCOMPETENCE AND MISERY. WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU EXPECT MORE NOW???


*sigh* Sorry for yelling. I’ll just go —>