From boisterous town halls to an upcoming budget fight in Congress, there's a lot to unpack already in this week in politics.

And for that, we're joined by our politics stakes duo.

That's Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

Great to see you both.

Amy, kick us off here now because we've seen lawmakers returning to Congress after holding

some town halls in their home districts, sort of getting their first real-time temperature check

in this second Trump administration, and they're seeing some anger and some frustration. Here's just

one example that was seen by Congressman Mark Alford in Kansas City, Missouri. Take a listen.

How many have done do you think should be fired or be out cause?

What is reasonable?

There's a legal and proper way to downsize government?

Guys, guys, guys.

We're not, they're similar to junior high opportunity.

Amy, a lot of that related to the mass firings between the federal workforce,

and he is not alone. What did these Republicans do now? Yeah, well, that's an excellent question,

is that I think what they're looking at for the very first time is the reality of all politics

is local, even though they've been, in many ways, just talking in a more national, have been on a more national

focus for quite some time, which is if you look at the polling nationally, the idea of cutting

government waste, of firing excess government workers sounds really popular until it comes

to your home district.

Now, outside of this area that we sit in here in Washington, D.C., most congressional districts have maybe 2, 3% of their total workforce is employed by the federal government.

But that doesn't mean it's not going to trickle out into other areas,

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