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Dulcinea

(8,121 posts) Sat Mar 22, 2025, 07:57 AM Mar 22

'Where is Congress?' Sen. Chuck Grassley town hall in Iowa gets heated quickly [View all]

(USA Today) HAMPTON, Iowa — Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley fielded questions from a packed room of heated Iowans on Friday who urged him to "stand up for what's right" in the face of the Trump administration's massive federal downsizing.

“My question, which I think is on our minds here, is where is Congress?” asked one audience member, which was met with cheers from the audience at the Franklin County Courthouse in central Iowa.

The town hall, which drew a crowd of more than 100 Iowans and quickly reached the room's capacity, comes after the National Republican Congressional Committee recently advised Republicans against holding public town halls as speakers' anger over Trump's administration policies went viral.

Grassley is the first Iowa lawmaker to hold a true town hall in the wake of a wave of discontent from voters across the country with Washington, D.C., politics.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/where-congress-sen-chuck-grassley-193007091.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_CORE&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20250322-0-&bt_user_id=I4wddSuttQIK3OvmxjD520wRJe3NcZkVrJi2xlgEy6wn2DPnT%2BFAWKOmoVh94Ons&bt_ts=1742643942163

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'Where is Congress?' Sen. Chuck Grassley town hall in Iowa gets heated quickly [View all] Dulcinea Mar 22 OP

GQP don't give a shit about their base.................... Lovie777 Mar 22 #1

Even then the PutinGOP does not care about their base. Irish_Dem Mar 22 #2

They don't need Americans anymore, they have Elon Walleye Mar 22 #3

Americans are useless eaters who cost too much. Irish_Dem Mar 22 #4

Yes, we are occupying too much of their land with national parks, etc. Walleye Mar 22 #5

All the resources, assets, money rightly belong to the billionaires. Irish_Dem Mar 22 #6

You nailed it. And Black people and women should have no rights at all. Walleye Mar 22 #8

Yes. White male supremacy. Irish_Dem Mar 22 #10

The scary thing is, they don't even seem to care about their own family members Walleye Mar 22 #13

Their family probably wants for nothing. Irish_Dem Mar 22 #14

Yes, but I mean ordinary magas as well. They only love Trump and Elon, not their family. Walleye Mar 22 #15

Oh yes. They let their children die. Irish_Dem Mar 22 #16

Grassley is someone who should know better than to be a MAGA fascist. He started out a blue collar ... marble falls Mar 22 #7

He knows now that everything he is doing is wrong, un Christian, and un-American Walleye Mar 22 #9

He's an arrogant shit and his grandson was in the Iowa legislature (where chuck got his start) and is in the House ... marble falls Mar 22 #12

And a lot of Iowa voters will still think they're voting for his grandfather. Never read the paper or anything. Walleye Mar 22 #18

It's crazy. My family owned a door and window factory in Marion, outside of Cedar Rapids ... marble falls Mar 22 #19

GOOD. (nt) Paladin Mar 22 #11

Wow, chuckiepoo was brave enough to face a whole hundred people? NoMoreRepugs Mar 22 #17