‘Where is Congress?’ Senator Chuck Grassley is heating up quickly in Iowa

Hampton, Republican Senator Chua Gracely, raised questions in a hotel room of the Ayuwan that encouraged “to stop to be right” in the face of a major decline in the Trump administration.

– My question, which I think is in our minds here, is where Congress is? He asked the audience welcomed at the Franklin County court in central Iowa.

The municipality hall, which has accumulated more than 100, and quickly reached the room’s capacity, comes after the Republican National Committee recently advised Republicans to suspend public town halls because preachers’ anger over the Trump administration’s policies caused the virus.

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Grassley is the first member of the Ayoo state to have a real settlement hall after a wave of voters across the country with Washington, DC.

Federal representatives in Iowa have recently told Dies Mones, a USA Today’s partner, this month still plans to keep the towns’ halls.

Following the national protests, the left groups have held more than dozens of “holls in the towns of the people” or “holls in the open chair town” to the Federal A delegation of the state of Iowa because they say their questions remain unanswered.

National Democrats have also listened to voters’ ties, and Eyowah on a trip with Minnesota President Tim Walls last week from the Singer area of ​​the 2026 midfield, where Republicans could have seats. Walz told the Ayuvans that Democrats should make a list of voters’ main stages to do something, curse!

Other federal legislators, as representatives of Harret Hagman, R-Vio. who have conducted municipal halls He has faced voters in recent weeks with voters being tired of politics in Washington, DC.

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Before the start of the municipal hall, Margaret Smith in Hampton said he would appreciate the Grassley meeting with the iowans, but said what the senator would do in the future was important.

“I have three points I would like to bring forward. One is what the government’s ministry of efficiency is? It’s not a federal organization,” Smith said. “Where are you satisfied with that, where is you watching, where the security forces are for that and how the people of that organization can tell the people ‘They will be down in your office, and you will lose your job’?’ There is no precedent for that.”

Grassley: ‘I’m allowed to set the agenda for municipal halls

With the start of the municipal hall, Graceli said he could not answer everyone’s questions during the schedule he had set for him. He was calm when the loudspeakers screamed — sometimes he stood up at once and while they were in their chairs.

The audience said that Grassley would take time to hear them, even when they talked to him in the municipal hall and protested the paintings while leaving the building.

The president of the municipality hall and the government monitoring in Graceli asked Trump and the new administration in Graceli. He said he was not impressed by monitoring members of Congress to cut off the federal government.

“The courts are doing their job, and they are really doing it well,” he said. “They control it in Trump and others, but the Senate and the House of Representatives must monitor them, and that’s your job. We rely on you and others to save democracy.

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In response, Grassley, who called himself “observation” in Congress, said he had a staff of 33 investigations, including one on limiting “government waste.

The crowd shouted in response to Graceli’s answer.

“Trump’s president is above the law, and I will only strengthen what others said, why didn’t you talk to him? We have confidence in our votes. We have sent you to Congress for decades.

Grassley replied that he had a background that journalists had, working to publish all the statements he made on the Senate and the time he spent with the Aywan, showing his relationship with state voters.

“I’m trying to prepare myself very much for journalists, but if you don’t read it about it. … I’m the best way I know to be presented,” Grassley said.

The voter repeated his question: “Why do you feel that President Trump is above the law?”

“He’s not above the law,” Grace said.

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Mark McCormick, 41, was unable to enter the municipal hall before he was filled. But beyond that, he said he was an independent voter who was used to supporting the Republicans, but said he could not support Graceli and that he was tired of how the new government’s efficiency ministry, or Doge, was headed by Elon Musk.

“I mean, if they have their own meaning and do something, I will vote for them, but the party has come out of the paths, and are still good to fascism, which is mad,” McCormic said.

Grassley later told reporters that it was evidence of “the government of representation in action.

“It’s like all the meetings in my city. I’m allowed to set the agenda, and you can present anything they want, so we have dealt with many issues in people’s minds,” Grace told reporters. “It’s not only what is expressed here, but also with large amounts of emails and posts of posts, and every day a telephone call.

He often expresses the concerns of the Ayun and his advocates. He cited an example of the US Department of Agriculture, after a federal employee in the city of Iowa, who was investigating the bird flu, was fired.

“When we deal with this on the basis of institution, it will be through the allocation bills, and when we provide us with money…,” Grace said. “Congress has given the Republican presidents and Democrats a lot about how you spend these dollars that we do appropriately, and this year, we will learn a lesson that is not enough powerlessness to the president and put more restrictions on the allocation bill.”

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