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City halls are getting even uglier for Republican lawmakers

Editorial Board Published March 3, 2025
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It was a weekend of ache for GOP lawmakers courageous sufficient to carry city halls. Tons of of indignant constituents—a few of them members of their very own social gathering—peppered them with questions concerning the chaos President Donald Trump and co-President Elon Musk have wrought since Inauguration Day.

The pictures of Republicans dealing with enraged voters who’re demanding that the GOP stand as much as Trump and Musk are attending to Trump, who lied in a Fact Social submit that the city corridor attendees are being paid.

“Paid ‘troublemakers’ are attending Republican Town Hall Meetings. It is all part of the game for the Democrats, but just like our big LANDSLIDE ELECTION, it’s not going to work for them!” Trump wrote on Monday morning, ignoring at his personal peril the actual anger effervescent up throughout the nation at Republicans’ threats to the financial system and assaults on nationwide safety and Individuals’ well being. 

In Texas’ third Congressional District, which Trump received with 56% of the vote within the 2020 presidential election, GOP Rep. Keith Self was loudly booed by his constituents on Saturday when he tried to justify the 1000’s of cuts to the federal workforce that Musk and Trump made by the so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity. 

The city corridor ended with constituents chanting “vote him out.”


Staff of the safety agency LEAR Asset Administration drag resident Teresa Borrenpohl out of a city corridor assembly on Feb. 22, 2025, in Publish Falls, Idaho.

In Kansas, which Trump received with over 57% of the vote in 2024, GOP Sen. Roger Marshall bought up and walked away fairly than reply a query from a constituent about how he’ll guarantee veterans aren’t caught up in Trump and Musk’s firing rampage. 

“I’m not a Democrat, but I’m worried about the veterans, man,” one constituent mentioned, referring to experiences that 1000’s of veterans have been fired within the federal workforce purge that Trump and Musk are endeavor.

Marshall, nevertheless, flatly ignored the constituent’s questions, saying he had “two more events today” earlier than standing up and strolling away with out acknowledging the voter’s reputable considerations. As Marshall turned his again on his constituents and walked out, a girl was heard yelling, “We’re going to vote you out.”

And in Tennessee, Republican Rep. Diana Harshbarger spewed conspiracy theories and lies as her constituents in her safely Republican district yelled at her about Trump’s cuts to the federal government. 

“There’s been a mandate to the president from the American people. Am I correct?” Harshbarger mentioned, as voters yelled, “No!”

Harshbarger chastised her constituents, telling them they needed to be “respectful” as she lied concerning the cuts Trump and Musk are making.

Due to the outcry at these city halls, Republican management has urged members to not maintain the occasions in any respect to keep away from damaging publicity.

In some districts the place Republicans refused to fulfill with their voters, constituents held their very own occasions to protest their actions. 

In Westchester, New York, constituents of GOP Rep. Mike Lawler gathered for a protest over his vote for the GOP finances blueprint, which if carried out is predicted to result in a whole bunch of billions of cuts to Medicaid.

Protesters of Vice President JD Vance stand near Main Street, Rt. 100, in Waitsfield, Vt., Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Jeff Knight/The Valley Reporter via AP)
A crowd protests on March 1 close to a Vermont ski resort in Waitsfield, Vermont, the place Vice President JD Vance was planning to trip.

In Minnesota, a whole bunch of protesters gathered at Rep. Pete Stauber’s district workplace in Duluth.

Democratic lawmakers are encouraging voters to attend city halls if their Republican representatives are having them, saying that if Republicans are petrified of being voted out, their conduct might change.

“Right now Republicans think their seats are at greater risk from Trump/Musk retaliation than from their constituents’ votes. Time for the people to rise up and make your voices heard,” Democratic Rep. Daniel Goldman of New York mentioned. “My GOP colleagues will only stand up to Trump if they believe their seat depends on it.”

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