Overview

• At a Bolivar, Missouri forum, constituent Fred Higginbotham called President Trump a dictator and told Rep. Mark Alford to stop prioritizing the president over local needs.
• Higginbotham said he is at risk of losing his family farm and urged higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy, drawing cheers from the audience.
• Alford thanked Higginbotham by name, maintained a calm tone, and said his staff would follow up to assist with the farm issue.
• Reporters described the session of roughly 100 attendees at Southwest Baptist University as mostly civil, though there were groans over claims that HR1’s tax cuts help working families.
• The widely shared C‑SPAN clip feeds a months-long pattern of tense GOP town halls over Trump’s agenda; many Republicans have limited in-person events, while Alford plans 15 meetings across his district this week.