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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And like Piggott, she also seems to have some regrets.
“I’m for balancing the budget, that type of thing, but not in this context,” she said. “It’s just not right.”
Piggott and many others who were initially fired are now on paid administrative leave as the layoffs are challenged in court.
She was asked if she had a message for Trump himself.
“I expected better from you,” she said. “I really did. I expected that you would do what was right and cut waste and fraud and all of those things that you promised us before we elected you in office, but you’re not doing that. You’re creating a disaster, and I don’t know what America is gonna look like if this continues.”
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