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At a rare local event in Spring Hill, Tennessee, U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Columbia, Tenn., came looking for a fight.
After multiple screaming altercations with protesters and constituents — who were barred from the event and removed from the property by police — Ogles took questions at an Americans for Prosperity event called “One Big Beautiful Breakfast,” where the congressman was set to discuss the Republican spending bill passed by Congress this summer.
Ogles defended the bill, his efforts to amend the Constitution and allow President Donald Trump a third term and said that blue states were spending money on “housing for gay frogs,” when discussing appropriation bills. The congressman also told constituents that Tennessee was “overrepresented” in Congress because of how much access he and Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Knoxville) have to the president.