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

Summary

Jennifer Piggott, a self-proclaimed “MAGA junkie” from Parkersburg, West Virginia, regrets voting for Donald Trump after being fired from the Bureau of Fiscal Service during widespread cuts under DOGE.

Despite earning top performance reviews, she was among 125 civil service workers dismissed, sparking local outrage.

Piggott expressed disappointment, saying she expected Trump to protect working-class jobs.

A federal judge ordered reinstatement, but the Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court, leaving affected workers on paid leave.

Piggott has faced vandalism and threats after speaking out.

  • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
    46·
    4 days ago

    I’ve always known the average voter is a huge idiot with a tiny attention span, but articles like this really put into perspective how bad it is. How the fuck do you manage to forget the COVID pandemic? Did everyone really buy the “Chinese bioweapon” propaganda in order to avoid blaming Trump or something?

    Trump was awful before and already ballooned the debt once. How do you not expect it to happen again?

      • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
        9·
        4 days ago

        I argued with a woman on Facebook who said this very thing. She told me the economy was excellent when Trump left office and posted a graph of the DJIA that ended in 2018. When I posted the rest of the graph showing it down in January 2021 and brought uo Trump’s stimulus checks, she claimed “it was the Democrats fault for shutting the economy down” while still sticking to her original argument that the economy was excellent.

        I swear these people have severe brain damage.

    • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
      14·
      4 days ago

      Honestly, even if you thought it was a Chinese bio weapon, he did a terrible job managing it. If anything it makes him bad at managing public health AND espionage.