The oldest member of Congress was startlingly screamed at during his most recent town hall appearance in Iowa.
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, 91, was yelled at by his constituents on Tuesday as the audience peppered him with complaints about President Donald Trump's administration.
'The framers of the Constitution said that every person, not citizen, every person within the jurisdiction of the United States has due process,' one upset citizen mentioned.
The man was referencing a recent legal case involving the White House and a deported Salvadorian Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, a migrant who has an American son and wife that was sent back to El Salvador over alleged ties to MS-13.
'We would like to know what you as the people the Congress who are supposed to reign in this dictator. What are you going to do about these people have been sentenced to life imprisonment in a foreign country with no due process.'
The Republican stood silently as the crowd cheered on the question and progressively got louder. The oldest lawmaker in the country quietly took the jeers.
'Why won't you do your job, senator?' the man dressed in a blue button down and glasses continued.
'Trump disobeys the Supreme Court, he just ignores them,' another man blurts out in the heated standoff.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, takes questions at a town hall in Fort Madison, Iowa, Tuesday, April 15, 2025
One man at the town hall started yelling at Grassley over a recent legal case in which the Trump administration deported a migrant who has an American wife and kid
Grassley responded saying that the decision to bring the man back is up to the president of El Salvador, who said he wouldn't
'The president of that country is not subject to our U.S. Supreme Court,' Grassley said of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, 43, who just met with Trump this week.
Bukele said Monday that he would not return Abrego despite the White House admitting that he was deported because of an administrative error.
Grassley - standing in front of a podium with an armed popped up resting on it - got in a quick word saying he is 'doing what the Constitution requires.'
'I’m trying to recapture the constitutional authority of article 1, section 8,' Grassley said trying to placate the crowd, noting a recent bipartisan bill of his to restore congressional power ceded to the executive branch.
The measure would give Congress more power over trade agreements and was a direct response to Trump's tariffs.
Grassley further explained that the bill would fix 'mistakes that Democratic Congress has made in 1963.'
He proceeded to receive loud boos and jeers for his counterpunch.
The senator, who has served since 1981, was out talking to voters as a part of his 45th annual 99 counties tour, an annual event he does to visit each of the state's counties.
Attendees raise their hands to be called on by Grassley
Trump welcomes El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to the White House on Monday
The scene has been a common one for Republican lawmakers that have recently sought to begin dialogues with constituents at town halls.
There have been scores of public appearances gone wrong in the months since Trump took office.
As DOGE slashed government jobs, Trump's deportation initiative began and the president whipsawed markets with a tariff regime, GOP lawmakers have been hearing earfuls while in their districts.
Last month, Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., held a town hall in Asheville, North Carolina, and he got ridiculed nearly the entire session.
The Republican began by mentioning Donald Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE effort cutting government spending when the audience first erupted in boos.
'You're not allowed to cut our jobs,' one angry attendee interrupted.
'Do your job,' chimed in another. 'Stand up to Trump!'
Republican congressional leadership has advised members against in person town halls as they have been swamped with upset voters.
Some lawmakers and Elon Musk have even suggested that the protests are funded by dark money groups with liberal backing.
