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Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.) addressed attendees at a town hall that got heated on Monday.<\/span>Charlie Riedel\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It hasn\u2019t been<\/span> a great last week of the August recess for Republican members of Congress. At town hall events across the country, attendees booed, laughed, jeered, and demanded answers as their GOP representatives tried to defend President Donald Trump\u2019s agenda. <\/p>\n

The list of issues angering their constituents is long\u2014everything from the Trump-backed cuts to Medicaid<\/a> and other impacts of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill<\/a>, to the deployment<\/a> of the National Guard to Democratic-run cities, to the lack of transparency over the Epstein files<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) held a town hall in which attendees booed<\/a> as he touted some of the Trump administration\u2019s work; they demanded he \u201crelease the Epstein files.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want to hear your propaganda!\u201d one attendee reportedly<\/a> yelled.<\/p>\n

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Boos during a rowdy town hall for @RepDanCrenshaw<\/a> in Texas this evening. People on hand were yelling \u201cEpstein files\u201d at Crenshaw who appears to be flustered in the video (toward the end of the clip). Video sent to me by somebody who was at the event. pic.twitter.com\/QK6t50V9jm<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

In a subsequent post on X<\/a>, Crenshaw blamed the commotion on \u201cabout fifty leftists\u201d who he alleged \u201cwould not stop interrupting with shouting and incoherent chanting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey demanded that we raise everyone\u2019s taxes, give free paychecks to able-bodied adults, and sneered at the success of the flood mitigation projects we\u2019ve done that have saved lives and property,\u201d he added, claiming that the protesters did not live in his district. <\/p>\n

The day before, Rep. Barry Moore (R-Ala.) fled his town hall through a back door, video obtained<\/a> by NBC News shows, after constituents shouted \u201cshame\u201d and questioned him about the lack of due process afforded to immigrants and others whom the Trump administration has detained. (\u201cDue process for a citizen and a noncitizen are different,\u201d Moore <\/strong>claimed.)<\/p>\n

A 40-minute livestream<\/a> of the event posted to Facebook by a local chapter of the advocacy group Indivisible shows attendees booing, chanting their questions, and laughing at Moore as he tried to defend the Trump administration. Appearing<\/a> on a conservative radio show on Thursday, Moore, who is also running<\/a> for Senate, claimed the event was \u201chijacked\u201d and disputed the notion that he had snuck out.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Rep. Barry Moore faced a hostile crowd Wednesday night at Daphne City Hall, drawing boos and cries of \u201cshame!\u201d as he defended President Donald Trump\u2019s agenda and his own record. pic.twitter.com\/pVvf3fNHxT<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 AL.com (@aldotcom) August 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud of everyone tonight,\u201d local resident and progressive activist Johnston Tisdale told<\/a> AL.com. \u201cI\u2019m not proud of him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kayleigh Godwin, another attendee, told the local news site: \u201cWe came here knowing we would not get any answers and that we would just try and shame him for the policies he supports.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday and Wednesday, town halls hosted by Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) featured attendees demanding answers to questions around Medicaid cuts and Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown, local news outlets WLWT<\/a> and the Journal-News<\/em><\/a> reported. The local news site the Heartland Signal<\/em> posted<\/a> videos to X showing attendees laughing and booing as Davidson tried to defend the work<\/a> of DOGE<\/a> and Trump\u2019s deployment<\/a> of the National Guard in cities. Davidson subsequently called<\/a> some of the attendees \u201cdisruptive.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) shushes his consistuents after they jeer at him for defending President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

“Is there a librarian in the room? Shhh.” pic.twitter.com\/m0kKVwvvMw<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) August 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.) tried to buck the perception of GOP lawmakers hiding from their constituents by holding<\/a> five town halls this week. But he still met the same fate as many of his colleagues. At a Monday event, one attendee told him to take his \u201chead out of Trump\u2019s a\u2013 and start doing your representation of us,\u201d the Daily Beast<\/em> reported<\/a>. On Wednesday, attendees booed and jeered when Alford insisted that Trump \u201chas the best interest at heart,\u201d according to<\/a> the Missouri Independent<\/em>. And local news site KOMU reported<\/a> that that evening\u2019s event ended with some constituents complaining about Alford\u2019s \u201ccomplacency\u201d and lack of answers to attendees\u2019 questions. Others told Alford they appreciated his willingness to address constituents, and he responded to protesters calmly, the Associated Press reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.) went further than Alford, hosting<\/a> 20 town halls in four days this week. Video from local outlet KJRH shows<\/a> attendees booing and demanding answers, and some attendees told the station they did not like that he limited questions to five people. At other events, attendees questioned<\/a> him about Trump\u2019s false claims<\/a> of lowering drug prices by more than 1,500 percent and Medicaid cuts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Constituent: Can you tell me what specific bills we have passed or worked on that would lower grocery prices?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brecheen: Ma’am, you are talking about things relative to state level. You are mixing federal and state. pic.twitter.com\/xwuUgxCzXO<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Acyn (@Acyn) August 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

All this helps explain why a memo<\/a> the National Republican Congressional Committee distributed last month\u2014titled \u201cMaking August Count\u201d\u2014made no mention of hosting town halls. Back in March, the committee\u2019s chair, Rep.\u00a0Richard Hudson\u00a0(R-N.C.), told a closed-door meeting of House Republicans to stop hosting town halls in the midst of backlash from voters, Politico<\/em> reported<\/a>. Most appear to have taken that to heart: By mid-August, only 16 of the 219 House Republicans had held at least one in-person town hall event, NPR reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So\u2026the midterms will be interesting.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n