Posted on 02/23/2025 8:37:51 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Some Republicans are facing pushback in their hometowns as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency make severe cuts across the federal government, both through sweeping employee terminations and looming budget cuts.
Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., faced a grilling from his constituents on DOGE's and Trump's massive cuts at a town hall Thursday night.
"We are all fricking pissed off about this -- you're going to hear it," a constituent told McCormick.
McCormick was interrupted multiple times as he tried to defend Trump and Musk's efforts to overhaul the federal government and the thousands of firings across the United States.
"By and large, the president has great purview over where this money goes," McCormick said at one point, before the crowd started to shout him down. "You can go and yell whenever you want, but I can't understand 10 people, let alone 100 people, at once."
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I'm sure some Republicans won't understand what's happening and crumble under pressure.
4 min video at link.
Why watch ABC? I haven’t in at least 5 years. No regret!
“Some Republicans hammered at home by constituents about DOGE”
Some STUPID Republicans hammered at home by constituents about DOGE
There, fixed it
Do they want off the bus...NOW? Hmmm...?
Yes because everyone who voted for him knew what was going to happen.
There will be a constant drumbeat in the Lamestream Media and from democrat-leaning outlets back home about all the havoc and suffering that is resulting form Trump’s cuts and DOGE.
Not a peep about raising state taxes to replace the “Free Federal Money” of course.
"Constituent" my azz!
The GOOBers need to understand that this sewage sneaking into their “town halls” is just two-bit actors paid by the DemonRATS. Lay off the “town halls”. They aren’t worth the BS anymore. Just a bunch of retards screaming. If you have to have ‘em, hire some off duty cops to throw the tantrum-throwing H.Y.E.N.A. howlers out in the street like they do up in D.C.
...and they ignore it all just like they ignore all the brainless rants of the stupid, psychotic Left.
“constituents” equals Democrat plants.
A paid RAT-supporting actor. When will the GOP ever learn.
What is going on is 100 times BETTER than “what I knew what was going to happen.”
This is just bogus bs.
Trump has not cut a dime that has hit the ground yet
Makes you realize exactly why the Trump $5000 DOGE waste fraud and abuse rebate may just be the single most important policy move in his first two years in office
I continue to be amazed at how well planned the Trump cuts are. He is targeting the Hard Left with surgical precision to cut the heart out the Democrat political machine by cutting out the patronage, graft and corruption that funds the Democrats political power
How do we know the people complaining at that event are actually Republicans?
Anyone with a brain would have known this was going to happen.
You think the Deep State is going down without a fight?
My Democrat representatives are too smart for that. They don't have "town hall meetings".
I can write letters to them, but they don't read them.
I have been in their local offices and watched the interns delete messages and throw away physical letters.
I have spoken with members of Congress in meetings. They are very polite listeners and have smooth explanations why they will not do anything that I favor and will do many things that I oppose.
Their reelection is guaranteed in this State by Dominion Voting Systems, as long as they follow the Democrat party line. Cross that and they will be gone. They all know that, and so do I.
This is not the government I was taught we had in those civics classes long ago.
If they’re really Republicans, they’re asking, why hasn’t DOGE cut more waste and corruption?
Course not. Lawfare and Media Lies are the only arrows left in their quiver.
If they think they can sway public opinion I just refer to the trends in the last election - every state moved to the right and democrat gimme-culture stronghold groups moved the most.
Considering that, like ZERO PEOPLE back home, at this point, have been affected by DOGE, this is clearly DNC-organized, trying to respond to Trump.
But like you say, I doubt the Republicans will figure out something this OBVIOUS.
I’ve said it before and one more time….
The Republicans and Trump need to do a better and more positive job of marketing what they are doing.
What they are doing is critical to this nation’s survival. But the messaging needs to be couched in more positive terms.
The support of the general population is critical and we need that support to send a stronger field of Republicans to the Senate and Congress next election to make these changes permanent.
Schadenfreude is very satisfying. But pissing people off or frightening them isn’t going to help with long range solutions.
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