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Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) was confronted with boos Tuesday night while defending President Trump’s sweeping tax and spending package during a town hall.
The exchange came after he was asked what he planned to do to protect benefits for people with disabilities.
“Well, under the one big, beautiful bill,” Flood began, before being drowned out by boos from the audience.
“We protected a system that, if it had gone unchecked, it would not have been long term available for the very people that are the most vulnerable — the developmentally disabled, the persistent mentally ill, people that are of advanced age,” he continued.
The GOP lawmaker went on to argue the lawmakers “protected Medicaid in a bipartisan, commonsense way.”
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed Congress through the budget reconciliation process, which allowed Republicans to bypass the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold. Democrats uniformly opposed the legislation, blasting its Medicaid provisions.
The latest confrontation is not the first time Flood has faced a hostile town hall crowd over the legislation. During an August town hall, he was interrupted by boos and chants of “tax the rich” while defending the bill, arguing it “protects Medicaid for the future.”
At another town hall in May, the Republican was pressed about a provision in the legislation that would limit federal judges’ ability to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders.
While distancing himself from the measure, saying, “I do not agree with that section that was added to that bill,” an audience member shouted back, “You voted for all of it.”
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