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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