{"id":1055644,"date":"2025-08-18T14:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055644"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:03:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:03:41","slug":"recess-report-republicans-face-angry-voters-nationwide-after-passing-their-budget-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/recess-report-republicans-face-angry-voters-nationwide-after-passing-their-budget-betrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"Recess Report: Republicans Face Angry Voters Nationwide After Passing Their Budget Betrayal\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Across the country, Republican lawmakers continue to receive massive backlash from their angry constituents after they threw Americans under the bus to pass Trump\u2019s billionaires-first budget. In response, <\/em>DNC Deputy Communications Director Abhi Rahman released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRepublicans are finding out the hard way that they can\u2019t hide from the fury they created when they put billionaires over their own constituents. At town halls across the country, Americans are letting Trump\u2019s congressional lackeys know there will be electoral consequences for ripping away families\u2019 health care and food assistance to line the pockets of billionaires.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At his first town hall in eight years, California GOP Rep. Doug LaMalfa was drowned out by angry constituents frustrated about Trump\u2019s disastrous agenda. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HuffPost<\/a>: \u201c\u2018Liar!\u2019: Another GOP Rep. Faces A Raucous Town Hall Angered By Trump’s Agenda\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnother Republican lawmaker has faced a cacophony of boos and jeers<\/strong> when coming face-to-face with the general public to defend President Donald Trump\u2019s legislative agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) felt the wrath of constituents over the huge tax and spending bill,<\/strong> the trade war, and the crackdown on immigration when speaking during a town hall in Chico, California, on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTensions ran so high that LaMalfa, who was reportedly holding his first in-person forum in close to eight years, was repeatedly called a \u2018liar\u2019 when doing his utmost to justify the president\u2019s policies.<\/strong> \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLaMalfa was also drowned out by boos <\/strong>when delivering the standard Republican line about eliminating \u2018waste and fraud\u2019 to justify cutting Medicaid. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018You liar!\u2019 <\/strong>was one audible response among the dissonance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Wyoming, Rep. Harriet Hageman received jeers and boos from constituents after spewing false rhetoric at a town hall meeting. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WyoFile<\/a>: \u201cWyoming crowd boos Hageman retort that protections against greenhouse gases based on \u2018false science\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWyoming\u2019s U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, responding to a question during a recent town hall event in Pinedale, said she is \u2018strongly in support of repealing the endangerment finding.\u2019 The landmark 2009 doctrine classified greenhouse gases as pollutants and legally obliged federal agencies to regulate their emissions under the Clean Air Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Republican congresswoman added, \u2018The endangerment finding is absolutely based upon false science.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA chorus of boos rose from the crowd assembled on July 29, along with guffaws and several people shouting, \u2018No!\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHageman continued over the outburst: \u2018CO2 [carbon dioxide] is not a pollutant. As far as the validity and the science that was the foundation for that, they cooked the books.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany of her Sublette County constituents weren\u2019t having it. The booing continued, along with one person shouting, \u2018Lie, lie,\u2019 as Hageman pressed on.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alternet<\/a>: \u201c\u2018Lie! Lie!\u2019 Wyoming community blasts Republican at town hall\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Across the country, Republican lawmakers continue to receive massive backlash from their angry constituents after they threw Americans under the bus to pass Trump\u2019s billionaires-first budget. 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