Mike Flood faces town hall questions on Epstein files, BLS chief
Representative Mike Flood, R-Neb., Held a town hall on Monday that started with huans shortly after riding on stage and ended with songs of “voting” at the end.
Between the two, the floods were constantly heckled as he answered questions about the publication of more information on Jeffrey Epstein, the dismissal of President Donald Trump of the Commissioner of Labor Statistics and Medicaid Cups in the “Big Beau Bill” of the GOP.
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The members of the public began to shout in Flood and the Hue when he spoke of Medicaid and the impact of the law of Trump’s domestic policy on the Nebraska hospitals. Flood argued that there was “a lot of disinformation” on the “Big Beautiful Bill Act”, for which no democrat voted when he made his way through Congress this summer.
Later, he faced a question that suggested that he covered files related to Epstein. Flood replied that it supports the publication of files and will coat a non-binding house resolution calling for their publication.
He added that he supports an effort led by the president of the James Comer Chamber’s surveillance committee, R-Ky., So that the Epstein co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, is seated for a deposition.
Commer last week postponed Maxwell’s deposition, previously scheduled for August 11, until the least October to let the Supreme Court decide at the end of September if he will examine his case.
Flood has also weighed on the dismissal of the BLS chief, Erika Mcentarfer, whom Trump rejected on Friday shortly after the publication of the agency figures showing that hiring in the United States had slowed considerably in recent months. Flood suggested that he could have managed the situation differently, adding that he does not know “all the details” on the dismissal of Mcentarfer.
“I do not know what the situation was with the Ministry of Labor. “I can tell you that I have been an employer for many years, and there are always two sides with each story, and I don’t know what this side was. I would say this, however, if all that was done was to make sure that the data did, if all this, and I do not know, but if that’s all they did, I would not have summoned it. “
Several Republican senators, as well as economists and statisticians, challenged Trump’s end of Mcentarfer last week.
The members of the public shouted, laughed and hooked throughout the event, with songs of “free Palestine” and “tax the rich” and, during the conclusion of the town hall, the calls for “voting”. When Flood tried to engage with public members on these subjects, he largely encountered more protests.
Participants asked at least three different questions about the Ministry of Internal Security and Immigration and Customs Application, in particular on Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz”, which one person called “Alligator Auschwitz”.
Finding it at the immigration detention center in Florida, a participant asked Flow: “How do taxpayers have to pay a fascist country?” Flood replied that the majority of Americans voted for Trump and not for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
“The Americans voted for a safe border, and I support the president applying our immigration laws, which, by the way, were written by the congress,” he added, which prompted more huae.
The Democratic Party of Nebraska encouraged people to attend the town hall of Flood, telling the voters of the 1st district of the congress on social networks: “You know what to do!”
The party also encouraged the attendance during the last town hall in person in Flood in the state, in May, when it was toasted by the members of the public and conceded at some point that he had not read a bill before voting for this.
Flood was elected for the first time at Congress in 2022. He won his re -election last year with 60% of the votes.
