Overview

• Flood faced sustained heckling from roughly 750 constituents at Kimball Hall as he sold President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
• Audience chants of “tax the rich,” “Free Palestine” and “vote him out” underscored frustration with Medicaid and SNAP cuts and immigration enforcement costs.
• He defended Medicaid work requirements in the GOP reconciliation package as crucial to protecting the program’s future funding.
• Flood said he will co-sponsor a nonbinding House Rules Committee resolution to publish Jeffrey Epstein records and support compelling Ghislaine Maxwell to testify.
• When pressed on the firing of BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer, he said he would not have dismissed her without knowing all the details.