Indiana Republican lawmaker's town hall a crowd-fest of boos and jeers as she defends Trump spending cuts
Earlier DU thread: Indiana U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz Westfield event continues trend of contentious town halls
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Source: Reuters
Indiana Republican lawmaker's town hall a crowd-fest of boos and jeers as she defends Trump spending cuts
Rich McKay
Fri, March 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM EDT 2 min read
(Reuters) -Boos, jeers and choruses of "do your job" greeted U.S. Representative Victoria Spartz at a town hall on Friday in her Indiana congressional district as she defended sweeping cuts across the federal government, the latest such event by a Republican lawmakers to generate loud voter backlash.
Spartz went ahead with the town hall even after House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson urged Republican lawmakers to avoid such meetings after some turned into angry confrontations with voters over President Donald Trump's firing of federal workers and defunding of government programs. Johnson has claimed that Democrats and activists were responsible for the tumult at various meetings.
Spartz defended the jobs and program cuts led by billionaire Elon Musk, Trump's hand-picked adviser who is spearheading the Department of Government Efficiency, and she repeated the Republican mantra that the actions are designed to "stop waste, fraud and abuse."
"This is your money, this is your money," Spartz said, as people shouted about cuts in government services. "If they can do a better job with less money, they should do that," she said. "That is government efficiency."
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