Patience with the Musk hacksaw cuts across the US Federal Government and its Empolyee’s IS NOT going over well among Americans….
NOT at ALL….
(Polling CONFIRMS the rising anger across the Country)
Lawmaklers afraid of Trump’s wrah may NOT be keeping their jobs if things keep going like they have for the past two months…..
Trump may NOT like it?
But at some point?
He IS going to HAVE TO give the Musk DOGE consulting effort with job and program cuts a STOP Order.….
“If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going be an effective town hall,” McCormick said, five minutes into defending Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service.
“But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted.
Town halls this week for congressional Republicans from Georgia to Wisconsin to Oregon grew testy as voters showed up to vent, outraged at the firing of workers and the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to sensitive data. Protesters showed up around the country at lawmakers’ offices.
The backlash extends far beyond federal workers in the Beltway, reaching purple districts that will decide control of Congress in 2026 and swing states like Georgia that helped return Trump to the White House. Layoffs just hit the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Funding freezes have halted clean-energy projects championed by President Joe Biden.
The crowd at McCormick’s town hall Thursday night was decidedly liberal. But new Washington Post-Ipsos polling suggests some of Trump and Musk’s moves are unpopular beyond the Democratic base. About 6 in 10 Americans surveyed were opposed to shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development, which Musk bragged about feeding “into the wood chipper.”
Republicans have overwhelmingly backed DOGE’s mission and even moved to replicate it at the state-level, including in Georgia. But they’re also struggling to justify the scope of some cuts and scrambling to get exceptions for their constituents — in some cases lobbying the Trump administration to restore federal funding to their states.
Anna Foy teared up as she waited with her mother to watch McCormick’s town hall from overflow. The 33-year-old Army Reservist said the Bureau of Land Management had abruptly rescinded a job offer wrangling wild horses; she spoke to someone in McCormick’s office, she said, and was here to follow up.
“I’ve worked six years to develop my resume around this job,” Foy said. “I don’t know what to do.” When the town hall finished, she waited to speak with the congressman’s staff….
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Around the country, other Republican House members faced sharp questions after heading home for recess. Liberal groups encouraged their members to show up to town halls in deep-red territory.
In rural La Grande, Oregon, attendees of Rep. Cliff Bentz’s town hall erupted in boos and shouted “Tax Elon!” according to local news outlet The Observer. In Ohio, Rep. Troy Balderson acknowledged some limits to Musk’s authority at a luncheon, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
“Congress has to decide whether the Department of Education goes away,” Balderson said. “Not the president, not Elon Musk. Congress decides.”
But Republican lawmakers have mostly defended and declined to publicly criticize DOGE while endorsing its stated goals of rooting out waste in the federal government. And plenty of their base voters are eager for more cuts….
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Democrats have increasingly focused their opposition to the Trump administration on Musk and DOGE, viewing the billionaire Trump donor as the perfect villain. They say an unelected businessman should not wield so much power over the federal government and accuse him and Trump of illegally usurping Congress’s power of the purse by unilaterally canceling spending.
Protests around the country this week took aim at both Trump and Musk. Lawmakers who didn’t hold town halls were met with protests at their offices. Activist groups helped organize demonstrations outside dealerships for Musk’s electric car company, Tesla….
image…An attendee of the McCormick town hall yells out in response to an answer by the congressman. (Elijah Nouvelage/For The Washington Post)
While these type things are great fodder for media highlights,the action is so predictable.
You have a Democratic President and the Democrats will stay home on a cold night while the Republicans will turn out to raise Hell.
You have a Republican President ,particularly one as controversial as Trump? And yes the Democrats are going to turn out and yell and scream as is going on here ,while the Republicans are probably sitting at home watching their favorite tv show.
So yeah like I say it makes for great media highlights but does it signify much?
Not really.
Yup Jack…..
ALL the idiots that complained about Biden and now are crying ?
Screw’m