Pirate's Cove

NBC News, and other outlets, are running with this, but, it sure seems like the “constituents” who are complaining are mostly Democrats, not Republicans. But, you know, NBC has to do their tone deaf Resistance stuff and Democrats have to astroturf their TDS with protests

Republicans start to feel the heat on budget cuts: From the Politics Desk

After the Senate pulled an all-nighter to adopt a budget blueprint, the pressure next week will be squarely on the House as it plans to take up a competing version to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda.

For some Republican lawmakers, it will come after they spent the past week getting an earful back home.

At town halls across the country, House Republicans faced sometimes-hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts and mass firings of federal workers that Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are carrying out, Scott Wong, Syedah Asghar, Sahil Kapur and Ben Kamisar report.

With the House on recess, public events this week marked the first opportunity for many lawmakers to hear directly from constituents since Trump’s inauguration.

• Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., was pressed on DOGE’s “sloppy approach” to cuts to the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Reps. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wis., and Kevin Hern, R-Okla., were accused of not doing enough to stand up to the executive branch amid Trump and Musk’s flurry of actions.
• And a man confronted Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ore., about not being responsive to his concerns about Musk.

The raucous town halls conjured memories of those in 2009 — the start of the tea party movement — when constituents protested lawmakers over Democrats’ massive health care bill, which became the Affordable Care Act.

I seriously doubt they are Republicans complaining about Trump and Musk’s actions

One Republican lawmaker said it appeared that constituents who’ve been “quiet” since Joe Biden’s 2020 victory are back out in force. “Too much too fast seems to be a common refrain,” the lawmaker continued.

So, Democrats and the few Never Trumper Republicans complaining about reducing the number of federal employees and cutting money for transgender comics and puppet shows? Tough sh*t. To paraphrase what they said when Obama and Biden won “Trump won. The majority voted for him. Sit down for the time being. Elections have consequences.”

As Melanie Zanona, Sahil Kapur and Ben Kamisar report, the House’s budget plan could result in steep cuts to Medicaid and food stamps. That could put a handful of Republicans who represent parts of the country where sizable shares of the populations receive government assistance from Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in a politically difficult position.

“Could.” What I’m hearing is that any cuts will not affect the money US citizens get, just that illegals/fake asylum seekers will be cut off, and that certain foods will be removed from SNAP. And, work requirements may be strengthened. Unnecessary bureaucracy and red tape could be eliminated, which will streamline how the the programs operated.

This is just a case of the Credentialed Media being The Resistance to Trump, rather than being a news outlet.