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Red states bleeding jobs thanks to Trump executive order

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President Donald Trump’s massive government cuts have already aroused controversy, from a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee allegedly planning on selling sensitive Social Security data to a private company, to impacting how small towns could celebrate America's 250th anniversary . Now a new report reveals that Trump’s cuts have led to thousands upon thousands of layoffs — more than 377,000 federal employees in total — that impact his own voters. For 10 states “most of which voted for Trump in 2024 and half with sizable rural populations, the federal workforce was slashed by 25 percent or more,” reported NBC News' Ashley Mowreader on Tuesday . Mowreader added, “Across all departments, close to half of federal job cuts from June 2025 to January 2026 impacted more staff in states with a larger-than-average share of rural residents.” Pointing to how the world’s richest man, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, took charge of DOGE and began cutting government programs, Mowreader reported

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