Indiana lawmaker faces questions and booing over DOGE, Signal leak and migration policy

Record ID: 1986361

  • Title: Indiana lawmaker faces questions and booing over DOGE, Signal leak and migration policy
  • Date: 29th March 2025
  • Summary: WESTFIELD, INDIANA, UNITED STATES (MARCH 28, 2025) (REUTERS) TOWN HALL HOSTED BY REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE FOR INDIANA, VICTORIA SPARTZ (SOUNDBITE) (English) REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE FOR INDIANA, VICTORIA SPARTZ, SAYING: "So we can talk about what DOGE is doing or not doing but let me tell you what DOGE did. Do you think it's a bad thing or not? / CROWD BOOING TOWN HALL A
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  • Keywords: Indiana Victoria Spartz doge republican town hall
  • Location: WESTFIELD, INDIANA, UNITED STATES
  • City: WESTFIELD, INDIANA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: North America,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001259728032025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Boos, jeers and choruses of "do your job" greeted U.S. Representative Victoria Spartz at a town hall on Friday (March 28) in her Indiana congressional district as she defended sweeping cuts across the federal government, the latest such event by a Republican lawmakers to generate loud voter backlash.
    Spartz went ahead with the town hall even after House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson urged Republican lawmakers to avoid such meetings after some turned into angry confrontations with voters over President Donald Trump's firing of federal workers and defunding of government programs. Johnson has claimed that Democrats and activists were responsible for the tumult at various meetings.
    Spartz defended the jobs and program cuts led by billionaire Elon Musk, Trump's hand-picked adviser who is spearheading the Department of Government Efficiency, and she repeated the Republican mantra that the actions are designed to "stop waste, fraud and abuse."
    Spartz, a Ukrainian-born American politician, at times had little chance to fully answer questions.
    Much of the meeting, held in a suburb of Indianapolis, was taken up by Spartz trying to calm the unruly audience.
    Shortly before 7:30 p.m., about half the once-packed hall's audience walked out, but chants of "do your job" could be heard from outside the meeting hall.
    (Production: Eric Cox, Gerardo Gomez)
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