Town halls held by members of Congress from across the country in the weeks since President Donald Trump began slashing government and issuing a flurry of executive orders have been filled with angry constituents, booing and shouting down their representatives — and Utah proved no different Thursday night at an event organized by Reps. Celeste Maloy and Mike Kennedy.
The newest members of Utah’s all-Republican federal delegation held the town hall against the advice of GOP leadership, according to Politico, on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City — the bluest part of the crimson state near the nexus of all four of its congressional districts.
Of the more than 500 crowdsourced questions largely focused on Trump and his newly created Department of Government Efficiency, the first was: “If the current administration continues to defy court orders, will you commit to call for articles of impeachment to protect our republic’s checks and balances?”
Audience members didn’t like the answers from Maloy and Kennedy. And when the crowd began expressing its displeasure, Kennedy asked that police begin escorting disruptive attendees out of the auditorium — although none was removed.
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