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A West Virginia woman who voted for President Donald Trump says she feels "betrayed" after she lost her federal job amid sweeping cuts.
According to Reuters, Jennifer Piggot was among the over 125 employees dismissed last month from the Treasury Department's Bureau of Fiscal Service (BFS) in Parksburg, West Virgina, a town that overwhelmingly supported Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
"I feel a little bit betrayed. There's always that back-and-forth conversation now it's like, 'You knew this was coming,' but we didn't, like, nobody that I've talked to understood the devastation that having this administration in office would do to our lives," Piggott told Reuters.
The mass cut to BFS comes amid efforts by the Trump administration's newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an agency headed by tech billionaire Elon Musk that aims to reduce government spending and the federal workforce.
Musk has called for mass cuts to federal spending, saying it should be reduced by up to $2 trillion annually. In less than two months, multiple federal agencies have been restructured, and mass layoffs have been recommended under DOGE.
Amid the BFS cuts, Republicans and Democrats staged an anti-DOGE protest near the agency's offices.
"Cutting costs, and waste, and fraud, we love that big picture. I love that big picture, my friends, we were excited about that because it is true. But again, I can't help but go back to the fact that what is the decisions that you're making right now solving in the big picture? So, the concept of voting for that again, voting for Elon Musk essentially to wreck people's lives, I can't do it," Piggot said.
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