Overview

• Residents repeatedly shouted “You need to be impeached!” and “No fascism in America!” during LaMalfa’s first Chico town hall in eight years.
• Attendees warned that Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill spending package and proposed SNAP and Medicaid cuts would jeopardize local residents dependent on those services.
• Furious farmers and activists criticized presidential tariffs and efforts to defund PBS and NPR, drawing boos when LaMalfa defended alternative media options.
• One participant citing Holocaust–survivor parents accused ICE actions of authoritarianism, and several questioned LaMalfa’s staunch pro-Israel stance on the Gaza conflict.
• Pressed on GOP gerrymandering in Texas and California’s possible retaliation, LaMalfa cautioned that redistricting battles could spark a “grass fire” across the country.