Lincoln, Neb. (AP) – Rep. Mike Flood received a slurry during a public meeting in Lincoln to discuss his support for the massive tax benefits and expenses that Bill passed and signed by President Donald Trump in the law.
Flood, a Republican in the second appointment that represents the GOP-oriented district, to which the University of Nebraska belongs, defied on Monday the anger of a college city audience, which is dominated by hundreds of people who aim to express their displeasure with cuts against Medicaid services and tax cuts that are inclined towards Wealthy.
He described the law as less than perfect, but was determined in his medical and tax regulations and promoted a 90-minute flood of Jers and chants in a scenario House Republican who avoid GOP members.
“More than anything I really believe that this calculation protects Medicaid for the future,” said Flood and exhibited a shower of Boos of the audience of around 700 in the Kimball Recital Hall of the University of Nebraska. “We protected Medicaid.”
How voters receive the law, which was adopted without democratic support in the narrow GOP-controlled house and in the Senate, could make a long way to determine whether the Republicans keep power in the next year.
Flood was determined in his position, but sometimes dealt with the audience. During his repeated discussions about Medicaid, he asked if people in the audience had the capable Americans of the work to work. When many called their opposition, he replied: “I don’t think the majority of the Nebraskans agree.”
Dozens formed a line to the microphone to speak with flood, and most asked top questions about the law, but many others in question of the steps of the Trump administration to enforce immigration, educational expenses and layoffs within the German bureaucracy.
Some were ready to confront him.
“You said in Seward that you weren’t a fascist,” said a man in line to say. “Your complicity suggests differently.”
Flood shot back: “Fascists do not keep the town halls with open questions and meetings.”
When asked whether he would block the publication of files in connection with the fall of sex trade with the deceased Jeffrey Epstein, Flood said that he supports her release as a co-sponsor of a non-binding decision that calls for its publication. Flood also said that he supported the deposition of Epstein’s convicted co -configurator Ghislaine Maxwell, who argues that it was wrongly prosecuted.
Flood also suggested that he might have “treated the situation differently” when he was pushed through Trump’s dismissal by Trump by Trump after taking office after a slower employment growth in July than in one year.
Flood’s audience on Monday gathered more than an hour before the doors opened. And when people set up in the toasty August air, he strolled to introduce himself, shake his hand and thank people, including the retired Lincoln teacher and school administrator Mary Ells, to take part.
“I think the MEP flood has listened to a socially adequate way,” said Ells, after saying concerns to flood the future of her grandchildren. “I do not think that he listens to the citizens of Nebraska in a quick reaction, action -oriented way that does not agree with the national game book, but are implemented here, but here.”
Much of this decency disappeared in the hall.
During the discussion about his support for the tax regulations of the law, of which he argued that they would benefit the middle class, the audience exploded in a deafening vocals of the “taxation of the rich”.
Other chores included “Coordinate him!” And “Free Palestine!”
Heckler often drowned flood and created a rolling cacophony with only occasional breaks.
The Rathäuser of Republican legislators have only been a few and far away since the draft lawsuit passed at the beginning of the last month, also because their leaders have advised them against it. Trump and others say that the law will give a jerk, but the Democrats feel that they are associated with criticism of many of their provisions, in particular their cuts against medicaid and tax cuts that are inclined to the prosperous.
Flood later played the confrontation as “spirited”, but “part of the process” during a impromptu press conference.
“That doesn’t mean they can all make you happy,” he said. “But you know that if you are strong about thinking about what you do in the congress, you are on the city square, tell you why you have tuned so much, listen to your questions, treat them with respect and invite you to continue to communicate.”
In contrast to dozens of other Republicans in competitive districts, flood hardly has to worry, since the Republicans present a challenge for their razor -thin majority in the house next year. The flood chosen in 2022 was elected to the seat last year by winning 60% of the votes in a district, to which Lincoln in the democratically annoying Lancaster County, but also a huge republican rural wing in 11 counties that ring the Omaha metropolitan area.
