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The congress is in recess, but the voters of the 4th district of the Pennsylvania congress delivered a roadmap so that the American representative Madeleine Dean returns to Capitol Hill with fervor.
Residents filled the Montco cultural center with 563 seats in Blue Bell Thursday evening in Lambaste Donald Trump and the actions of billionaire Elon Musk to reshape the federal government.
“You made my eyes cry to see you online tonight,” Dean told the crowd. “This is a test of our democracy.”
The Dean town hall came in the middle of a trade war fueled by the prices, the Trump administration campaign against higher education, the unjustified expulsion of a Maryland man and the massive Doge cups with federal programs.
She said Trump was “worthy of dismissal”.
“The lies told in the oval office are beyond the pale and that is why you are here tonight and that’s what energizes me,” said Dean. “We can never be satisfied with it. We must continue to tell the truth – cut chaos, call corruption, disinformation and lies. ”
Montco residents are concerned about martial law, a response fetterman
Dean said that the Trump administration’s actions in the past 88 days have led to “self-inflicted damage to the American people, to our country, to our position in the world”.
“My concern is that what happens when it declares martial law, when it suspends the Habeas Corpus and says:” Mid-term elections, we are in an emergency, we are not going to have them, “said Len Disesa, 77, of Dresher.
To a salvo of applause, Disesa asked Dean what she and other Democrats did in the House of Representatives to act and do more to “throw away monkey keys” in Trump’s agenda to “slow it down”.
Dean replied that she thought he was “absolutely right about the question of martial law”.
“People send me a text in a panic:” Is it possible that he declares martial law and avoid another election, cancel an election? ” I was not like that. “Will he try to run for a third term and stay in office?” Of course, he will. ”
Dean said Democrats use certain procedures, but recognized that it was not “sufficient”, to block the actions of the Trump administration.
“We need to use all the devices we can and invoke our colleagues in the Senate to help us slowly walking some of this madness,” she said.
John Lockard, 75, of Dresher, said that he had written letters to us. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania about the choices of Trump’s office. Lockard called McCormick as “sheep”, according to his republican colleagues. But Lockard questioned Fetterman’s “apathetic” responses as a democrat.
“It’s almost too difficult to remember because it’s so vague,” said Lockard about the answer he received from Fetterman’s office. “He really does not give direct answers when most of the letters I sent him concerned votes for the chairs in the department.”
Dean said that she had not had a good answer, however, she told the crowd that she had left Fetterman a vocal messaging expressing her thoughts after several of these votes.
