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BumRushDaShow

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Sun Mar 23, 2025, 03:18 AM Mar 23

A 'dumpster fire': Angry voters bash lawmakers over Trump and DOGE [View all]

Source: USA Today

Published 5:08 a.m. ET March 22, 2025 | Updated 3:27 p.m. ET March 22, 2025


BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – The questions lobbed at freshman Democratic Rep. Kelly Morrison during a packed down hall Thursday night were meaty. “What is the plan to enforce court rulings against Trump and Musk in the event that they disregard court orders?”

“If Trump ends Social Security, we will be unable to pay our mortgage. We will become homeless at age 70. What can or should we do?” “How will Democrats rehabilitate their standing as the only hope to save the country?” followed by: “Why does Chuck Schumer still have a job?”

Morrison, who represents a liberal-leaning district in the Minneapolis suburbs, echoed back outrage at the administration and sympathy with the queries, which were written on paper and passed to the stage for a moderator to read.

But ultimately, she admitted she has few cards to play in a federal government dominated by Republicans in the House, Senate and White House. “I had big plans that are on hold,” Morrison said.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/22/town-halls-republicans-democrats-doge-trump/82589214007/



As a note - 45 was here in Philly last night with Muskrat at a wrestling championship and the local news reported that several hundred protesters were near the Wells Fargo Center to "greet" them.
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