We Did Bryan Steil’s Clips For Him This Morning. Spoiler Alert: His Constituents Are NOT Happy!

• U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil was met with consistent boos during a town hall Thursday night, as scores of attendees jeered the Janesville Republican over his support for President Donald Trump’s policies.
• Steil struggled to get through answers from the crowd of more than 250 people gathered in Elkhorn Area High School’s auditorium. Many in the crowd interjected with yells of disagreement over everything from border security to tariffs to Trump’s recently signed One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
• Steil’s in-person town hall was the first for a Wisconsin Republican since House GOP leadership in March advised members to avoid the in-person events. Republican leaders encouraged their conference to hold telephone town halls to avoid public protests from Democrats unhappy with the Trump administration’s actions.
• Steil during the session defended the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education, saying “education is best resolved at the local level,” and he stood by Trump’s use of tariffs, suggesting tariffs have helped the U.S. be treated more fairly.
• Before the town hall started, a group of about 50 demonstrators gathered outside the high school to protest Steil’s vote for Trump’s bill, noting it slashed Medicaid and food assistance programs. Wisconsin health officials previously estimated the legislation could cause tens of thousands of Wisconsinites to lose Medicaid coverage.

• Republican Rep. Bryan Steil faced a rowdy crowd at a town hall-style event in Wisconsin on Thursday, with attendees angrily confronting him over a wide range of topics, including tariffs, President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful Bill,” …
• Audience members frequently interrupted Steil as he spoke, often drowning him out with boos and yelling…
• A different attendee told the congressman, “I am so disappointed. I am so disappointed in how you represent us as the citizens of Walworth County. Southeast Wisconsin has not been represented by you…” 
• Another audience member said that his “main concern” is tariffs.
• “I was under the impression that Congress was responsible for issuing tariffs,” he said. “I really feel that this is a terrible tax that’s going to be placed on the citizens of the United States.”
• On Trump’s sweeping tax and spending law known as the “big, beautiful bill,” one person asked what is being done to protect individuals who are not wealthy, raising concerns that tax breaks under the legislation will only accrue to higher-earners.

• Vietnam veteran Tom Burke was among several hundred in attendance [at Steil’s town hall] and voiced concerns about President Trump’s tariff policies.
• “This is a terrible tax that is going to be placed on the citizens of the United States,” Burke said.
• Steil took a broader view on tariffs and trade policy that did not sit well with some attendees.

• Republican U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil was met by a hostile crowd attempting to shout him down Thursday evening during his first town hall gathering since the passage of President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
• On tariffs, a man from Elkhorn said he was always under the impression that Congress must be involved, which was met with loud cheers. He then asked “what dire economic circumstances” put Trump in a position to issue them without congressional approval.

• From the roars of the crowd, critics of [Bryan Steil] appeared to account for the majority of the group that filled nearly two-thirds of the 600-seat Elkhorn High School auditorium. 
• Steil’s constituents have been protesting weekly outside his office in Racine for months, calling on him to hold an in-person meeting rather than telephone ones.
• Over the course of the hour, however, the vast majority of people who were chosen asked questions sharply critical of Steil, Trump, the Republican congressional majority, or all three.
• Criticizing Trump’s tariffs, Tom Burke asked Steil “what dire economic circumstances” justified the president’s executive orders to impose them.
• Another questioner asked Steil to explain “why you support Linda McMahon and defunding the Department of Education?”

• Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) was heckled and booed during a Thursday town hall in his district over a slate of GOP policies, including immigration, the “big, beautiful bill,” and President Trump’s tariffs.
• “I am so disappointed in how you represent us, as the citizens of Walworth County. Southeast Wisconsin is not represented by you,” one man said.
• Angry voters at GOP town halls also made headlines during the House’s previous recess in March, with constituent ire often focused on cuts made by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
• The backlash escalated to a point where House Republican leaders urged their members to avoid live, in-person town halls. 
• Steil also faced questions about Trump’s tariff policies as new, elevated rates were set to kick in Friday (the town hall took place before the president announced a series of new tariffs would go into effect next week).
• “I would like to know what dire economic circumstances put Trump in position of throwing tariffs on over 190 countries,” one voter said, drawing cheers and clapping from the audience.
• Democrats have hoped to use the massive legislation package, which cuts Medicaid and other social services along with extending tax cuts, as a cudgel against Republicans in the midterms.

• In a rowdy town hall on Thursday night, Wisconsin Republican Rep. Bryan Steil was booed when he expressed support for President Donald Trump’s trade policies.
• An attendee pressed Steil on Trump’s tariffs against scores of U.S. trade partners.
• “I really feel that this is a terrible tax that’s going to be placed on the citizens of the Unites States. I would like to know what dire economic circumstances put Trump in a position of deploying tariffs on over 190 countries?” the attendee asked, prompting applause from the crowd. “You have allowed him to do that and it’s sad. So tell me the dire circumstances that triggered his tariff wars.”
• Steil’s response prompted loud boos from participants.
• In the [Elkhorn] town hall, the congressman was also pressed on other topics, including the impacts Trump’s megabill will have on Medicaid and other services.
• The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated the cuts to Medicaid included the sweeping tax and spending cut bill, which Trump signed into law on July 4, will result in 10 million Americans losing health insurance.

• Rep. Bryan Steil faced a hostile crowd.
• House Republicans are beginning to face rowdy town halls as they try to sell President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending law.
• Rep. Bryan Steil of Wisconsin had a hostile crowd Thursday night, with jeers and boos from the audience, according to local media reports.
• Attendees pressed him on topics spanning from Trump’s tariffs to immigration.

“… one of those women [questioning Steil] sounded like she might have been a Republican who supported [Steil] in the past.”