Summary
Rep. Harriet Hageman faced loud boos at a Wyoming town hall after endorsing funding for Elon Musk’s DOGE cost-cutting initiative.
The crowd, mostly opposed to her stance, jeered as she laughed and clapped, labeling the audience’s reaction “embarrassing.”
Hageman defended Social Security funding despite concerns that Musk’s efficiency drive might cut it, calling it a “Ponzi scheme.”
The only bipartisan applause came when Hageman opposed closing rural mail distribution centers.
This woman grew up wealthy and privileged–she comes from a family in Wyoming that was always connected and always had money. She’s an attorney married to another attorney.
She is nothing like the people whose concerns she’s laughing at and calling embarrassing. She doesn’t have the same life experience as them, and she’s never, for a single second of a single day, had to worry about paying her bills or lacking necessary things.
So she laughs when her constituents worry about these things, and she mocks them when they voice those concerns.