Republican Town Hall Goes Off the Rails as He’s Showered in Boos
In March, GOP leadership discouraged Its legislators to have the town hall in person in the middle of the rising reaction to the Trump administration.
Representative Bryan Steil of Wisconsin was the first state republican to disobey this directive. After the voters held weekly protests Outside his office, urging to organize an event in person, Steil finally gave in with what his office called “listening session. “”
After months of virtual registrations, there was a lot of listening to do.
Steil entered the auditorium of Elkhorn secondary school Thursday to resonate hooks and faced a noisy crowd for the duration of the 80 -minute session, including ferocious questions about his support on Trump’s agenda, as well as frequent songs, songs and mockery.
Participants were obviously drawn on Steil’s support in the Trump budget, ready to tilt taxes in favor of the rich while taking off the social security net. Steil defended his vote on the bill, which is also estimated at the national debt by billions of dollars. (When the legislator mentioned the national debt as an urgent question, a participant questioned: “Thank you!”)
He also expressed his support for controversial immigration policies from Trump – a subject that has aroused “some of the noisiest huts”, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Representative Bryan Steil in Elkhorn answering questions from a crowd from the town hall. Many people ask questions about Wisconsinites who lose access to health care, prices, federal cuts to medical research. @ Wisn12news pic.twitter.com/wdpocbybhi
– Emily Pofahl (@ emilypofahl6) July 31, 2025
More than one present person has referred to the Florida immigrant detention camp nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” as a concentration camp, to which Steil opposed. A constituent note that “the difference between a prison or a detention center and a concentration camp is a regular procedure”.
Steil also had to approach Trump’s prices (a participant called “A terrible tax that will be placed on the citizens of the United States”), as well as Trump’s push to all except to remove the Ministry of Education (“Education is better resolved at the local level”, Steil said).
Many questions Steil has been faced with a general perception that Steil is in Trump’s pocket. A participant said“The south-eastern Wisconsin was not represented by you. President Trump seems to run south-east of Wisconsin through you.”
Another fact Similar remarks In the context of immigration. “What I see arriving at our immigrant population embarrasses me-Horrifies me,” she said. “You haven’t lifted a voice to complain about it. Where can I see your leadership? I don’t see any leadership – I see you following Trump 100% of the time.” In response to this last question, Steil, ironically, “praised the executive orders and the deportations of Trump”, the public radio of Wisconsin reports.
At another moment of the meeting, however, he insisted that he “still not online” with the leadership of the GOP.
There is a little point, because the holding of the town hall has certainly been against the advice of his party.
Although resolved to promulgate the most destructive elements of the president’s agenda, at least Steil has finally turned out to hear the concerns of his voters face to face. It is more than what can be said for many other Republicans in Congress. As one of Steil’s criticism in the crowd told him: “I applaud you for being standing here and taking it.”
