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Let's talk about Nebraska pushing back on Trump's policies....

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Beau of The Fifth Column

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about Nebraska pushing back on Trump's policies....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, internet people, it spell again. So today, we're going to talk about

0:08.1

Nebraska turning on Trump's policies. Republican politicians, many of whom exist in their own

0:15.8

social media or Fox News-induced echo chambers, Keep refusing to take the consistent advice from strategists

0:23.5

that says they need to avoid town hall settings. When they refuse to take this advice and end up

0:30.7

in situations where their voters can talk to them, it tends not to go well. They're confronted

0:36.7

with the Trump policies they supported.

0:39.7

Representative Mike Flood had this issue on Monday in Lincoln, Nebraska.

0:44.8

There's active pushback in Nebraska.

0:47.8

Just kind of think about that for a second.

0:50.7

If you think you live in an area so red that you can't find your people, they even exist in Nebraska.

0:58.3

So, what happened?

1:00.4

Well, Flood began talking about Trump's budget plan, the so-called one big beautiful bill that included the largest cuts to Medicaid in half a century.

1:09.5

He was booed. People chanted tax the rich. In an attempt to

1:14.5

quell the revolt, he asked the crowd. So here's a question. Do you think the people who are 28 years old

1:21.9

that can work and refuse to work should get free health care? He didn't seem prepared for the answer when the crowd yelled, yes.

1:31.4

He said he didn't think most Nebraskans thought that way and said the plan that

1:35.7

Guts Medicaid would protect it, which is the standard Republican line.

1:41.7

The crowd wasn't having it.

1:43.6

At one point, he was asked,

1:46.0

How much does it cost for fascism?

1:48.0

How much do the taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?

1:53.0

He basically responded by saying the policies being enacted are what Americans voted for.

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