{"id":144581,"date":"2025-03-19T02:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T02:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=144581"},"modified":"2025-03-19T02:30:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T02:30:35","slug":"town-hall-descends-into-chaos-as-gop-lawmaker-is-heckled-about-musk-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=144581","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Town hall descends into chaos as GOP lawmaker is heckled about Musk, Trump&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/03\/14\/north-carolina-town-hall-chuck-edwards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Rep. Chuck Edwards kicked off a town hall meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, to applause for being one of the few Republican lawmakers still willing to meet with constituents amid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/03\/04\/town-halls-republicans-anger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warnings from GOP leadership<\/a>\u00a0to bypass in-person sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the night\u2019s end, he was pleading with the crowd for civility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWould you give me a chance to answer this question, and you can start yelling after?\u201d Edwards asked, after receiving a question about President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cdestructive and disastrous trade war.\u201d Within a minute, the crowd booed him once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edwards was repeatedly interrupted at the Thursday meeting as he fielded questions about Trump\u2019s foreign policy, Elon Musk\u2019s efforts to make cuts to government agencies through the U.S. DOGE Service, and how he would \u201cmake sure North Carolina does not get taken over by dictatorship and fascism.\u201d The reaction grew especially hostile when he voiced support for Trump administration policies, including loud boos when he said the president supported Ukraine and when he defended Musk and DOGE. DOGE stands for Department of Government Efficiency.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Rep. Chuck Edwards kicked off a town hall meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, to applause for being one of the few Republican lawmakers still willing to meet with constituents amid\u00a0warnings from GOP leadership\u00a0to bypass in-person sessions. By the night\u2019s end, he was pleading with the crowd for civility. \u201cWould you give me a chance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144582,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144581\/revisions\/144582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}