GOP Rep Mercilessly Booed At Town Hall While Defending Signature Trump Policy [View all]
Source: Huff Post
Jul 8, 2026, 05:03 AM EDT
Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) was greeted with a chorus of boos during a town hall event on Tuesday after defending President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”
Flood was asked what he planned to do about the legislation’s cuts to disability benefits. Trump’s signature legislation slashed over $1 trillion over the next decade from Medicaid, the primary source of funding for those benefits. The congressman remained steadfast in his defense of the bill, despite the crowd’s less-than-warm reception.
“We protected a system that if it had gone unchecked, it would not have been long-term available for the very people that are the most vulnerable,” Flood said. “The developmentally disabled, the persistent mentally ill, people of advanced age.” Flood claimed that the bill was a “bipartisan, common sense” way to fix Medicaid.
It’s unclear where Flood got the idea that the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” was bipartisan. It was so partisan that Vice President JD Vance was forced to cast a tie-breaking vote to get the legislation through the Senate after three Republican Senators voted against it. The bill only narrowly passed the House as well, with every Democrat and two Republicans voting against it.
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