{"id":40118,"date":"2025-04-29T13:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/angry-florida-voters-hold-empty-chair-town-halls-for-absent-republicans\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:05:32","slug":"angry-florida-voters-hold-empty-chair-town-halls-for-absent-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/angry-florida-voters-hold-empty-chair-town-halls-for-absent-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Florida voters hold \u2018empty chair\u2019 town halls for absent Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican committee advises against holding town halls as cases of lawmakers berated over federal cuts go viral<\/p>\n<p>Angry voters are holding empty chair town halls as Republican members of Congress are refusing to hold those meetings with constituents.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks into Donald Trump\u2019s second term as president, Republican members of Congress were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/republicans-advised-avoid-person-town-halls-confrontations-cuts-go-vir-rcna194689\">advised<\/a> by the National Republican Congressional Committee against holding in person town halls with constituents, as several cases of Republican members of Congress being berated by constituents over federal worker firings and cuts went viral.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/29\/empty-chair-town-hall-republicans-florida\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican committee advises against holding town halls as cases of lawmakers berated over federal cuts go viral Angry voters are holding empty chair town halls as Republican members of Congress are refusing to hold those meetings with constituents. Weeks into Donald Trump\u2019s second term as president, Republican members of Congress were advised by the National &#8230; <a title=\"Angry Florida voters hold \u2018empty chair\u2019 town halls for absent Republicans\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/angry-florida-voters-hold-empty-chair-town-halls-for-absent-republicans\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Angry Florida voters hold \u2018empty chair\u2019 town halls for absent Republicans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}