Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.) addressed attendees at a town hall that got heated on Monday.Charlie Riedel/AP

It hasn’t been a great last week of the August recess for Republican members of Congress. At town hall events across the country, attendees booed, laughed, jeered, and demanded answers as their GOP representatives tried to defend President Donald Trump’s agenda.

The list of issues angering their constituents is long—everything from the Trump-backed cuts to Medicaid and other impacts of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, to the deployment of the National Guard to Democratic-run cities, to the lack of transparency over the Epstein files.

On Thursday, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) held a town hall in which attendees booed as he touted some of the Trump administration’s work; they demanded he “release the Epstein files.”

“We don’t want to hear your propaganda!” one attendee reportedly yelled.

Boos during a rowdy town hall for @RepDanCrenshaw in Texas this evening. People on hand were yelling “Epstein files” at Crenshaw who appears to be flustered in the video (toward the end of the clip). Video sent to me by somebody who was at the event. pic.twitter.com/QK6t50V9jm

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