Republican lawmakers continue to face skeptical crowds at their town halls, with Donald Trump’s signature legislation emerging as a popular flashpoint.
At a Monday night meeting in Bolivar, Missouri, Rep. Mark Alford encountered pointed criticism from constituents who accused him of putting Trump’s agenda over local needs. One voter, Fred Higginbotham, told Alford he was “pissed” at both him and the president, calling Trump a “dictator” who “knows nothing about what he talks about.”
“You need to take your head out of Trump’s a** and start doing your representation of us,” Higginbotham said, to cheers.
“You know nothing about what a working-class citizen does,” he added. “Come down here and start trying to pay your medical insurance. Come down here and walk into Costco to try to feed you