‘We’re Pissed!’: Angry Constituents Confront DOGE-Backing GOP Rep At Chaotic Town Hall

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) got a less-than-warm reception from voters on Thursday as he faced anger and pushback over his support for the Trump administration’s cost-cutting crusade in the federal government.

McCormick ― who reportedly spoke to “hundreds of critics” at the city hall building in Roswell, Georgia ― was met with boos and jeers as attendees questioned whether he was doing them a “disservice” by backing billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency budget-slashing frenzy.

“You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?” asked McCormick, who received boos from the crowd in response, according to a clip shared by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Greg Bluestein.

Bluestein ― who captured a line spilling out of the building prior to the event ― shared another clip showing McCormick emphasizing the federal deficit and later telling the crowd that “nobody can hear” when they’re yelling.

Attendees, while opposing McCormick’s assertion that departments and agencies are deciding who to layoff or fire, criticized Musk for “deciding” who to cut while others were heard declaring “we’re pissed” and chanted “shame,” NBC News reported.

Another video from Bluestein shows an attendee asking McCormick why a “supposedly conservative party” is “taking such a radical and extremist and sloppy approach” to the cuts.

He referred to the Trump administration firing probationary employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as its efforts to rehire workers at the National Nuclear Security Administration.

McCormick — who recently made headlines when he suggested that children taking part in school lunch programs “sponge off the government” — argued that “a lot of the work” done by probationary employees at the CDC “is duplicitous with AI.”

“Once again, one of the problems we have —,” the congressman continued before the crowd interrupted him.

He later added, “If we continue to grow the size of government and we can’t afford it, it’s going to have shortfalls in your Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.”

The attendee told McCormick that he understood “trying to do more with less” but disagreed with the “chainsaw approach” to the cuts.

“Why is this being jammed down the pipe, so rushed and sloppily?” asked the man, whose question garnered applause.

The response from constituents in Roswell, part of a congressional district where McCormick won nearly 65% of the vote in November, eerily mirrors scenes of voters shouting down GOP lawmakers at town halls not long after President Donald Trump first took office in 2017.

Republicans, at the time, went on to duck town hall meetings with voters, who found other means to call out their representatives as a result.

Democrats also faced angered constituents themselves back in 2009 when the ACA was up for debate.