Grassley is beaten in Iowa, fighting in Marjorie Taylor Greene Town Hall

Grassley is beaten in Iowa, fighting in Marjorie Taylor Greene Town Hall

“Why don’t you do your work, senator?”

I was alone in a small town hall building in Fort Madison, Iowa, where the constituents overflowed on the sidewalk to have the opportunity to speak with the republican senator of Iowa Chuck Grassley, pressing it on their concerns with the deportation operation of the Trump administration, the administration policy of the administration and overload of the government.

In the City Council of the representative Marjorie Taylor Greene in her district in Georgia, three people were withdrawn from the event minutes after she began.

Almost immediately after the congresswoman took the stage, a man was dragged by police officers. Shortly after that, another assistant shouted at the audience. Greene ordered him to leave, and he came out, followed by an officer. Moments later, the police approached and dragged a third man. When he tried to re -enter, the officers traced him.

Police take a man in the event of representative Marjorie Taylor Greene in Cobb Condo, Georgia, on April 15, 2025.

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Before his City Council, Greene warned: “If you plan to act, shout and protest, you will be expelled.”

Many at the Grassley hearing in Iowa expressed concern about the Trump administration’s refusal to comply with judicial orders to facilitate the release of Kilmar Abrego García from a prison in El Salvador, arguing Grassley and Congress have not properly provided the controls and balances in the Trump administration, which allows him to challenge the orders of the courts.

“Are you going to bring that type of El Salvador?” A audience member shouted.

“That is not a power of Congress,” Grassley replied.

“El Salvador is an independent country … The president of that country is not subject to our Supreme Court of the United States,” he added later.

You could hear a strong groan of a woman before a man shouted: “I’m angry!”

Grassley is among a handful of Republican members of the Congress to celebrate the municipalities during their spring break. The leadership of the Republican Party has advised its members to avoid the municipalities in person after several members questioned themselves in their national districts earlier this year.

Senator Chuck Grassley attends a City Council meeting at Lee County, Iowa on April 15, 2025.

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In the Grassley City Council, another audience member asked: “We would like to know what, like people, Congress, which is supposed to control this dictator, what will they do with these people who have been sentenced to life imprisonment in a foreign country without due process?”

Before Grassley could respond, other audience members shouted on the lack of due process.

A person talks to Senator Chuck Grassley at a City Hall meeting at Lee County, Iowa on April 15, 2025.

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“Trump is not obeying the Supreme Court. He simply ignores them!”

“You are allowing it to happen!”

During a group with reporters after the City Council wrapped, Grassley tried again to argue that the administration is not “responsible” for bringing Garcia back to the United States if El Salvador refuses to comply.

A journalist asked: “Do you have concerns that Donald Trump progresses towards a constitutional crisis, or has already reached one when he chooses not to follow the judicial orders to make plans for his return?”

“Well, it is not a matter of the president after the court order. It is a matter of whether the president of El Salvador is going to do what our Supreme Court wants to do? And obviously our Supreme Court has no control over him, and says he will not return it,” said Grassley. “Then, if there is a constitutional crisis, it is not caused by President Trump, it is caused by the president of El Salvador.”

“I would expect our president to act in good faith, and I think our president will do it, to make those requests of the president of El Salvador, but if the president of El Salvador responds or would not be to that president of El Salvador,” he added.

During the City Council, the members announced to Grassley who believed there was more that could be doing to address their concerns about Trump and their actions since he assumed the position.

“Are you proud to vote for Trump, what he is doing in office? Are you proud of everything he is doing here?” One asked.

“There is no president in which I am 100 percent,” said Grassley.

A person talks to Senator Chuck Grassley at a City Hall meeting at Lee County, Iowa on April 15, 2025.

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“I didn’t say that, I said you are proud to find,” the constituent replied. Grassley moved to another part of the room to answer a different question.

Grassley also tried to quell the constituents’ concerns about the impact that farmers in the state could experience of Trump’s tariff policies.

“My son has cattle, yes, and works in a regular job,” a woman told Grassley. “And then I wonder how tariffs will affect someone like him?”

“It is too early to judge if what I am going to say will happen,” Grassley replied, saying that there could be benefits and inconveniences.

“It could also be negative, from the point of view that if people do not negotiate because there are many more countries than the 100 that have arrived at the table so far … when you put something negative like a tariff in some country, they seem to retaliate against agricultural problems.”

-ABC News’ Janice McDonald and Jason Vock contributed to this report.

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