A self-described ‘MAGA junkie’ from West Virginia broke down in tears recalling how she lost her job following DOGE’s ruthless government firings. 

Jennifer Piggott told CNN that she once proudly flew a MAGA flag outside of her home in Wood County, but now claims she ‘expected better’ of Donald Trump after being fired. 

Piggott was classed as a probationary civil service worker at the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Fiscal Service when she and more than 100 others were fired by Elon Musk’s DOGE team.  

‘I cried,’ she said with tears in her eyes. ‘It’s scary, you know, it’s a really scary thing, and I was embarrassed.’ 

Piggott lost her job due to poor performance, but she told the outlet that she’d received ‘the highest rating’ possible on a job review just three weeks beforehand. 

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

Piggott told the outlet that she regretted voting for Trump for the third time and added: ‘To cut the knees off the working-class Americans just doesn’t make sense to me. I expected more from President Donald Trump.’

She showed CNN the Trump campaign flag that she had taken down from outside her house and said she had received death threats and had her home egged since speaking out publicly, Newsweek reported. 

Jennifer Piggott told CNN that she once proudly flew a MAGA flag outside of her home in Wood County, but now said she ‘expected better’ of Donald Trump after she was fired

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

Musk and seven other members of DOGE told Fox News that most of the thousands of laid off government employees had left on their own volition, and ‘less than 0.15’ were fired

‘I expected better from [Trump], I really did,’ she said. ‘I expected that you would do what was right and cut waste and fraud and all those things that you promised is before we elected you in office, but you’re not doing that. You’re creating a disaster, and I don’t know what American is going to look like if this continues.’ 

Yet, Piggott’s story comes as DOGE head Elon Musk claimed that ‘basically no one has gotten fired’ following the federal cuts. 

Musk and seven other members of DOGE told Fox News that most of the thousands of laid off government employees had left on their own volition, and ‘less than 0.15’ percent were fired. 

Anthony Armstrong, a former Morgan Stanley banker who now works in DOGE at the Office of Personnel Management, said: ‘There’s voluntary early retirement. There’s voluntary separation payments. We put in place deferred resignation, the eight-month severance program.’ 

‘So, there’s a very heavy bias towards programs that are long dated, that are generous, that allow people to exit and go and get a new job in the private sector,’ he said. 

‘And you’ve heard a lot of news about RIFs, about people getting fired. At this moment in time, less than 0.15, not 1.5, less than 0.15 of the federal work force has actually been given a RIF [Reduction in Force] notice,’ Armstrong continued. 

Armstrong bolstered the claims by using the President’s analogy that DOGE’s work is a ‘scalpel, not [a] hatchet’ 

‘And that’s the way it’s getting done. And then, once those decisions are made, there’s a very heavy focus on being generous, being caring, being compassionate, and treating everyone with dignity and respect,’ another DOGE member said. 

Musk jumped in and clarified, ‘basically, almost no one has gotten fired. That’s what we’re saying.’ 

DOGE’s sweeping cuts across the federal government have been in the name of attempting to cut costs within the government, rooting out waste and to boost efficiency.