A Republican congressman admitted to his constituents that he wasn’t familiar with part of the massive tax-and-spending cut legislation he voted for last week.
At a raucous town hall meeting in Seward, Nebraska, a constituent asked Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) about a part of the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” aimed at preventing federal courts from blocking power grabs by the Trump administration.
“I am not going to hide the truth. This provision was unknown to me when I voted for that bill, and when I found out that provision was in the bill, I immediately reached out to my Senate counterparts and told them of my concern,” Flood said.
You had one job. That you didn’t.
He does not have to know every word of every bill. He does not have to read it, but then he need some serious reliable people who read it for him and tell him what is in there, especially when it comes to uboots in the law or technicalities. But he bears the total responsibility for what he voted for, and cannot claim ignorance.