'GOP Lawmaker Drowned Out by 'Tax the Rich' Chant at Town Hall in Deep-Red Nebraska District'
"A small Nebraska city where U.S. President Donald Trump easily won the 2024 election was the site of the latest chaotic Republican town hall on Tuesday evening, with Rep. Mike Flood facing a roomful of about 200 voters, many of whom refused to accept his excuses for the Trump administration's drastic cuts to the federal government."
"Flood came to the Columbus High School auditorium prepared with a graphic showing the national debt, with a giant screen showing the sum ticking up to $36 trillion—evidently confident that the number would help explain to voters why Republicans are pushing for hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid and Social Security while backing billionaire Elon Musk's massive cuts to the federal workforce."
"But when he displayed the number and told one voter who asked about cuts to the National Institutes of Health that, 'ultimately, where we need to go is to a balanced budget,' he was met with loud booing....'How can you be against a balanced budget?' Flood asked the room—which prompted the reply, 'tax the rich!' to ring out across the auditorium."
"Flood also faced questions about Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with one attendee asking, 'What makes Elon Musk a better person to audit our government for waste, fraud, and abuse than the inspectors general that Donald Trump fired?'...'Elon Musk gets $40 billion a year in funding from the federal government. What makes you think he has no conflict of interest?' asked the voter. 'Do you think he would cut that before he would cut our Medicare, or our Social Security, or our jobs?'"
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