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Emile

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Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:48 AM Mar 28

Rep. Lauren Boebert employs a new tactic in order to avoid being grilled by constituents at town hall [View all]

Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert employed a new tactic during a town hall on Wednesday night to avoid being grilled by her constituents on President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s gutting of the federal government.

Boebert, 38, stuck to the party line, branding Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency handling of highly sensitive information as “careful and responsible.”

The congresswoman held a telephone town hall on Wednesday to discuss her work in the state’s 4th district and answer live and submitted questions from her constituents.

In recent weeks, Republican town hall meetings have descended into chaos, with angry citizens displaying their outrage at the effects of Trump and Musk’s cuts. The chaos reached the point where party leadership was forced to encourage GOP lawmakers not to hold meetings in their districts.

Read more at: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/lauren-boebert-elon-musk-townhall-doge-b2722585.html

So she sets up her town hall where her constituents could not ask follow-up questions or speak out of turn.

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