What A Raucous Nebraska Town Hall Says About The Country's Mood

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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With Congress on summer recess after passing the big spending bill, GOP representatives are now tasked with defending their legislative records to their constituents.

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0:00.0	From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lehrer.
0:08.4	This is my daily politics podcast.
0:11.0	It's Wednesday, August 6th.
0:15.3	Members of the House of Representatives are in summer recess, an extended recess, as you'll recall,
0:22.6	because Speaker Mike Johnson is helping President Trump avoid Jeffrey Epstein-related hearings, at least for now, but summer recess means
0:29.2	town hall meetings, which have been fraught this year for Republicans, especially after the one
0:34.9	big Medicaid-cutting budget and policy bill.
0:38.2	For example, on Monday, Congressman Mike Flood of Nebraska's First District
0:43.5	faced a raucous crowd of more than 700 constituents
0:47.1	at a town hall hosted by Nebraska Public Media in the state's capital.
0:52.4	In this one-minute clip, Flood speaks, audience members react.
0:57.4	If we didn't pass the Big Beautiful Bill, it would have been a $1,600 tax increase to every Nebraska
1:08.7	family.
1:12.6	That is a true middle class tax cut.
1:20.6	Next slide, please.
1:22.6	These are the other important parts to the one big beautiful bill.
1:25.6	Next slide, please.
1:29.3	Tax-o-rich!
1:31.3	No taxes on overtime.
1:35.3	Tax-o-rich!
1:37.3	Tax-o-rich!
1:39.3	Tax-o-rich!
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