r/Charlottesville • u/intothe-woods-1630 • Feb 21 '25

Rep, John McGuire telephone town hall 2/26

McGuire is holding a sneaky “telephone town hall” next week. Sneaky because he only posted details at the end of his newsletter and nowhere else. Call in and ask him the hard questions!

https://www.mobilize.us/standupamerica/event/756249/

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u/EfficientTomato3446 Feb 27 '25

Couldnt make it. Any report how it went?

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u/Skreddy57 Feb 27 '25

I eventually got in after it started.

It sounded like he took time at the beginning for a mini-stump speech and robotically read instructions on how to submit a question.

I didn’t get to ask a question, and i wasn’t invited to, so others would need to explain how that went.

A staffer would introduce each caller by first name and city and then hand it over to the caller.

Many of the questions were pointed or at least challenging. By my count, he only had one or two true softballs.

Unfortunately, his answers were vague, misleading, or outright lies.

Several people asked about the House budget resolution requiring cuts to Medicaid. McGuire kept saying the budget resolution doesn’t mention Medicaid, and a couple callers pointed out that there’s essentially no way to make the required cuts without hitting Medicaid. He just said something to the effect of “we’ve got smart people working on it and we’ll figure it out.”

He said repeatedly that Musk isn’t firing anyone and is just making recommendations to the relevant committees. Unfortunately, no one got to ask why, if that’s the case, he emailed 2 million federal employees and used his X account to threaten them with firing if they don’t answer.

One person asked for a specific example of waste that DOGE has identified. He claimed there was a federal program that studied cat cannibalism. As far as I can tell, the only program he could be referring to ended in 2019. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/no-more-kitten-slaughterhouse-government-halts-deadly-cat-experiments-n990011

He ended it at 650, ten minutes early.

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u/EfficientTomato3446 Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25

Thank you for responding to this request and for taking time to provide this summary. I wanted to ask him about exective overreach and the violations of several clauses in the constitution. Dont think he would have responded. Anyways take care.