Overview

• A crowd of roughly 700 in Lincoln heckled Flood over provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill, erupting into boos and chants of “vote him out” during a 90-minute forum.
• Flood maintained that the legislation’s Medicaid work requirements and benefit changes will protect the program’s future while stimulating economic growth.
• An attendee’s question about the $450 million annual cost of Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center prompted a debate over immigration enforcement spending.
• Responding to calls for accountability in the Epstein case, Flood vowed to co-sponsor a nonbinding House resolution to release Jeffrey Epstein files and back a Ghislaine Maxwell deposition.
• He said he did not know all the facts behind President Trump’s firing of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer and added he would not have dismissed her without clear evidence.