As Donald Trump and his Republican lackeys screw over working families with their disastrous billionaires-first budget and attempt to undermine Americans\u2019 voting power, Democrats across the country are holding them accountable for putting billionaires over the people who elected them. As part of \u201cOrganizing Summer,\u201d this week, town halls were held in Missouri and Michigan. In Missouri, Senator Tammy Duckworth joined Missouri Democrats to blast Republicans for backing Trump\u2019s draconian budget cuts that rip away the health care and food assistance programs hardworking Missourians rely on and for trying to avoid accountability by rigging the congressional maps at Trump\u2019s behest. In Michigan, the chair of the Michigan Democratic Party, Curtis Hertel, highlighted how Trump\u2019s tax scam robs Michiganders of the money in their pocketbooks and their lifesaving health care \u2014 all to line the pockets of his billionaire donors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At both events, the message was clear: Democrats are in this fight to protect working families, not throw them under the bus to appease the top 1%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Take a look at some of the coverage below: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In Missouri: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Alton Telegraph<\/strong><\/a>: Sen. Tammy Duckworth slams Trump funding cuts at town hall in Missouri<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [Chase Martin, 8\/14\/25]<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cU.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth visited the area on Wednesday, but she was on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDuckworth went to The Factory in Chesterfield, Missouri, for a town hall event, where she discussed President Donald Trump\u2019s policies and aimed to provide hope and instruction to audience members. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA major point Duckworth emphasized during the event was federal funding cuts under President Trump. She called Trump’s policies the \u2018Big Beautiful Betrayal.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDuckworth pointed to funding cuts to veteran organizations, public schools, and agriculture. She said the people impacted most by the Trump Administration were veterans, teachers, students, union workers, and farmers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2018If ideas about making sure no child in this country goes hungry \u2026 that the middle class should be able to buy a first home, send their kids to school, have health insurance, and be able to retire with dignity,\u2019 Duckworth said. \u2018If those are crazy liberal ideas, then call me a crazy liberal.\u2019 \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAt several points, Duckworth made a call to action to the audience. She recommends that those attending Wednesday’s town hall have conversations with other people, regardless of their political affiliation, about cuts to federal funding and its impacts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She said that it’s the independent voters who helped Trump take office. With these conversations, people can start thinking about the problems at hand in order to think twice about who they vote for, she says. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOther calls to action involved instruction on working together and contacting the offices of politicians in order to voice concerns about federal spending. She also urged attendees to mention during these calls to politicians the recent redistricting efforts in Texas and, soon, Missouri, which aim to allow Republicans to gerrymander elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2018We need to fight back as hard as they are cheating,\u2019 Duckworth said.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n First Alert 4<\/strong><\/a>: Senator Duckworth pays visit to Missouri\u2019s 2nd Congressional District for town hall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [Shawn Loging, 8\/13\/25]<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAn Illinois U.S. Senator is crossing the Mississippi River for a town hall in the Show-Me state. Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth holding the event at the Factory in Chesterfield, which is in Republican Congresswoman Ann Wagner\u2019s district. It\u2019s as Democratic leaders at the town hall said that Rep. Wagner is not holding these types of events. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSenator Duckworth said, \u2018This is what happens when people are afraid that they\u2019re going to lose. When they know that their legislation is so incredibly unpopular, they\u2019re going to lose elections, they start to do this. It is a danger that could happen, but at the end of the day, every individual person who can get out there and vote can make their voices heard no matter how they draw the district.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe also responded to her current approach in Congress, expressing displeasure with some of her own party but pointing directly at the GOP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2018They lie to us on a regular basis and so I\u2019m done cooperating with my Republican colleagues. I\u2019m done being nice,\u2019 said Senator Duckworth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was the person who represented the 2nd District who wasn\u2019t on stage that Democrats at the event kept pointing out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2018You have a right to hear from your representative. When you are elected to represent the people of your constituency, you\u2019re their servant. That\u2019s what the term is: you\u2019re a public servant. You should be serving. You should be showing up to people who want to talk to you, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m here. Yes, I represent Illinois, but I\u2019m a United States senator and I represent all Americans,\u2019 said Senator Duckworth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n