'I expected more': Ex-'MAGA junkie' removes Trump flag as DOGE cuts elicit 'buyer’s remorse'

In Wood County, West Virginia, Donald Trump won more than 70 percent of the vote in the United States' 2024 presidential election. According to CNN's John Berman, the fact that Trump campaigned on cutting government waste worked to his advantage in Wood County.

But in a segment broadcast on Friday morning, March 28, Berman and his colleagues took a look at Wood County voters who favored Trump in 2024 but now have "buyer's remorse."

One of them is Jennifer Piggott, who told CNN that she was a "MAGA junkie" in 2024 and proudly displayed a Trump flag in front of her house. But now, Piggott regrets her vote after losing her job with the U.S. Treasury Department as a result of the mass layoffs of federal workers being carried out by the Trump Administration with the help of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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Piggott told CNN, "I cried. It's scary. You know, it's a really scary thing. And I was embarrassed."

When Piggott and others who worked for the U.S. Treasury Department in Parkersburg, West Virginia were "abruptly" laid off, CNN reports, "poor performance" was cited as a reason.

But Piggott told CNN, "I had my last review on the 31st of January, and I had the highest rating that you can get on a review — less than 21 days before I was terminated for my performance."

When CNN asked Piggott if she regretted voting for Trump in 2024, she replied, "Yes, I do. To cut the knees of working-class Americans just doesn't make sense to me…. I expected more from President Donald Trump."

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According to CNN, Piggott received death threats after publicly criticizing Trump.

CNN also interviewed another West Virginia woman who retired from the Treasury Department's Bureau of Fiscal Service because she feared losing her health insurance if she was fired. Asked if she would have voted for Trump if she knew she would lose her job, the woman — who requested anonymity for fear of retribution from Trump supporters — responded, "I'm not sure that I would have."

Another interviewee, Ronda Bragg — a former government employee now on administrative leave — was asked to comment on Trump voters who have lost their jobs.

Bragg told CNN, "You know, at first I wanted to say: when all this happens, you deserved it. At the same time, they're in the same spot that I am. And I honestly don't think any of us deserved it. It's not even $50,000 a year. You know, it's not that much money. I'm blue collar just like the rest of them in this valley."

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