Increasingly fractious town halls are “scaring” Republicans as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency continues to roll out cuts from the federal workforce, according to former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger.

NC, faced a rowdy town hall Thursday in Asheville as he defended the president's cuts to the Department of Education, Trump's handling of Ukraine and Elon Musk's DOGE. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

The Republican from Western North Carolina decided to host the event despite recent protests at GOP town halls. And he said he’d do it again.

At least one Republican lawmaker on Wednesday publicly called for Elon Musk to be more careful in his slapdash efforts to gut the federal government—just days after facing dozens of furious constituents who berated him at a town hall over the recent chaos Musk has created.

A Republican lawmaker in a MAGA-friendly district is calling on Elon Musk to back off the weekly rounds of mass firings and other sweeping changes inside the federal government sparked by the tech billionaire’s Department of Government Efficiency that has wreaked havoc on government workers nationwide.

Minn., is hosting town halls on Friday in Republican-held congressional districts in Iowa and Nebraska, following reports that the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) told Republicans in Congress to stop holding in-person town hall meetings.

Democrats are trying to fill the void left by Republicans who are skipping their town halls with constituents. Also, Pete Buttigieg will not run in 2026 for the Michigan senatorial or gubernatorial race.