August 6th, 2025.

Members of the House of Representatives are back in their districts for August,

and on Monday, Republican Mike Flood of Nebraska held a town hall in Lincoln.

A woman asked what she called a fiscal question.

She said,

with 450 million FEMA dollars being reallocated

to open alligator alcatraz

and 600 million taxpayer FEMA dollars being used

to now open more concentration camps

and ice burning through $8.4 million a day

to illegally detain people, how much does it cost for fascism? How much do the taxpayers have to pay

for a fascist country? The crowd cheered wildly. Nicholas Wu, Cassandra Dumae, and Mia McCarthy

of Politico reported today that by the end of Floods Town Hall, chance of vote him out, threatened

to drown out his closing comments. The Politico reporters also said that Republicans maintain they aren't

worried about their angry constituents and dismiss the town hall pushback as astroturfed and not

reflective of real voter sentiment. Maybe. But with the political tide running strong against the

administration, that position sounds like posturing.

Trump's firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, on the same day that numbers from that

bureau showed a dramatic slowdown in the economy, seems to have awakened business people who were

willing to back Trump to the reality that he's pulling down the economy.

Today, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook expressed concern about the jobs numbers, suggesting

that the big revisions in them are somewhat typical of turning points in the economy.

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