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I don't believe that either the Musk families, or the Trump families have ever experienced the sacrifices made by those families who have answered a call of military service. I may be in error here, but...
For decades now most every government department and agency as well as consultants, contractors, vendors to local, county, state, and the federal governments has been required by favor and by law to select military service veterans to be included in hires, with preferences favoring them. Let us be totally honest here: "included" equals inclusion, a much dreaded by some, goal.
Middle class lifestyles, which include no fear of food in the pantry and on the table, home mortgages, car payments, school tuitions for children and for college educations, vacations, healthcare, death and burial costs, and more have been a staple of the lifestyle that comes with a government job.
It appears that both Musk and Trump are tone deaf, or purposefully completely deaf to the concerns of many Americans in government service - especially those with a military service connection.
What Republican backers (at least publicly), from the MAGA peanut gallery are hearing when they go home -- home, meaning their electoral districts -- is...
Let the record show it and tell it: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going be an effective town hall' - 'But we’re pissed'
“If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going be an effective town hall,” McCormick said, five minutes into defending Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service.
“But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted.
ROSWELL, Georgia — The crowd packed into City Hall and filled an overflow room with one question, above all, for their Republican congressman: What did he think of Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn mission to shrink the federal government?
Their Atlanta suburb in a solid-red district was hardly a hub of the liberal resistance, but hundreds had shown up to confront Rep. Richard McCormick in person. Now each argument from the lawmaker brought a new round of shouts, groans and boos.
“If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going be an effective town hall,” McCormick said, five minutes into defending Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service.
“But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted.
For decades now most every government department and agency as well as consultants, contractors, vendors to local, county, state, and the federal governments has been required by favor and by law to select military service veterans to be included in hires, with preferences favoring them. Let us be totally honest here: "included" equals inclusion, a much dreaded by some, goal.
Middle class lifestyles, which include no fear of food in the pantry and on the table, home mortgages, car payments, school tuitions for children and for college educations, vacations, healthcare, death and burial costs, and more have been a staple of the lifestyle that comes with a government job.
It appears that both Musk and Trump are tone deaf, or purposefully completely deaf to the concerns of many Americans in government service - especially those with a military service connection.
What Republican backers (at least publicly), from the MAGA peanut gallery are hearing when they go home -- home, meaning their electoral districts -- is...
Let the record show it and tell it: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going be an effective town hall' - 'But we’re pissed'
“If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going be an effective town hall,” McCormick said, five minutes into defending Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service.
“But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted.
ROSWELL, Georgia — The crowd packed into City Hall and filled an overflow room with one question, above all, for their Republican congressman: What did he think of Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn mission to shrink the federal government?
Their Atlanta suburb in a solid-red district was hardly a hub of the liberal resistance, but hundreds had shown up to confront Rep. Richard McCormick in person. Now each argument from the lawmaker brought a new round of shouts, groans and boos.
“If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going be an effective town hall,” McCormick said, five minutes into defending Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service.
“But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted.
Town halls this week for congressional Republicans from Georgia to Wisconsin to Oregon grew testy as voters showed up to vent, outraged at the firing of workers and the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to sensitive data. Protesters showed up around the country at lawmakers’ offices.
The backlash extends far beyond federal workers in the Beltway, reaching purple districts that will decide control of Congress in 2026 and swing states like Georgia that helped return Trump to the White House. Layoffs just hit the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Funding freezes have halted clean-energy projects championed by President Joe Biden.
The crowd at McCormick’s town hall Thursday night was decidedly liberal. But new Washington Post-Ipsos polling suggests some of Trump and Musk’s moves are unpopular beyond the Democratic base. About 6 in 10 Americans surveyed were opposed to shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development, which Musk bragged about feeding “into the wood chipper.”
Republicans have overwhelmingly backed DOGE’s mission and even moved to replicate it at the state-level, including in Georgia. But they’re also struggling to justify the scope of some cuts and scrambling to get exceptions for their constituents — in some cases lobbying the Trump administration to restore federal funding to their states.
Anna Foy teared up as she waited with her mother to watch McCormick’s town hall from overflow. The 33-year-old Army Reservist said the Bureau of Land Management had abruptly rescinded a job offer wrangling wild horses; she spoke to someone in McCormick’s office, she said, and was here to follow up.
“I’ve worked six years to develop my resume around this job,” Foy said. “I don’t know what to do.” When the town hall finished, she waited to speak with the congressman’s staff.
