Representative Rich McCormick faced an angry crowd on Thursday during a town hall in his District of Georgia, where many voters lashed out at the Republican legislator for their support for mass federal layoffs and budget cuts by the efficiency department of the Trump administration government.
In the video of the event taken by Greg Bluestein, reporter for the Constitution of Atlanta Journal and a NBC news collaborator, attendees faced McCormick, hitting President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s technological billionaire. .
In one case, an assistant referred to recent cuts in the centers for the control and prevention of diseases when asked: “Why is the supposedly conservative party adopting such a radical, extremist and careless approach for this?”
McCormick replied that “much of the work they do is duplication with AI.”
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Almost 1,300 employees of the Test CDCs were withdrawn from their positions, since the Trump administration makes efforts to rescind all test workers, generally employees who are contracted recent.
“If we continue to increase the size of the government and we cannot pay it, it will have deficits in its Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security,” McCormick added in the event in Roswell, about 20 miles from the headquarters of the CDC.
The wizard replied that the administration was adopting a “chainsaw approach” to fire its employees and that the dismissal effort was “stuck by the pipe, so hurried and neglected.”
After McCormick said that an department or agency makes his own decisions about who to cut off his workforce when he is given a directive on the head of heads, the people of the audience are heard saying: “No!” With a person who says: “Elon Musk is deciding.”
The City Council was also marked by constituents who said: “We are angry” and “do not crouch”, as well as the songs of “shame!”
While McCormick struggled to respond to the interruptions of the crowd and suggested that he was offering solutions and that people did not “want to listen,” you can listen to a person screaming: “We want to work with someone better.”
McCormick easily won the re -election last year, winning 64.9% of the votes in a state that Trump flew after losing the battlefield before President Joe Biden in 2020.
A person who raised budgetary concerns on Thursday was heard telling McCormick that he had done a “bad service” and could not “defend us.”
In another case, an assistant asked McCormick how he plans “to control the megalomaniac in the White House” after the Trump’s publication “Long Live the King” about Truth Social, a question that met the cheers and some people who were They raised.
“When you talk about tyranny, when you talk about presidential power, I remember having the same discussion with the Republicans when Biden was chosen,” said McCormick, to the boo of the attendees.
“I don’t want any president to be too powerful,” McCormick added.
At different points during the City Council, McCormick made attempts to calm the crowd, saying at one time: “If you are going to shout, that will not be an effective town hall” and then told the attendees: “No one can listen when you are screaming” .
A McCormick spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comments on Thursday night at the City Council.
