“We don’t need you to be kissing this administration’s butt” Fedorchak fawns over Trump at so-called telephone town hall to North Dakotans’ chagrin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
March 25, 2025
FARGO ND – On Tuesday evening, Representative Julie Fedorchak hosted a “telephone town hall.” Fedorchak said that Trump may come to North Dakota remarking, “He pledged he would think about doing that.”
North Dakota DNC Committeeman Jamie Selzler said, “I appreciate that Representative Fedorchak took my call to kick off her tele-town hall tonight. I respect that she was willing to take tough questions and didn’t handpick callers. That said, I asked her about unelected Elon Musk diving into Medicaid and Social Security in order to cut and kill these critical programs. I asked her to speak up to defend entitlements against attack, and she refused to do so. We are months away from Social Security checks being missed, and from rural clinics closing. Medicaid is about to be slashed by Elon Musk and Donald Trump, which will hurt tens of thousands of North Dakotans who rely on it for healthcare and assisted living support. Julie Fedorchak remains silent on this, and as a Member of Congress is abdicating her responsibility to provide oversight of the administration and to defend the people she’s supposed to represent.”
North Dakota Democratic-NPL Communications Director Laura Dronen remarked, “Fedorchak said that Social Security is not being cut. That’s just a lie. DOGE is planning to cut phone support for Social Security. We are already seeing longer wait times. The Minot Social Security Office is on a list of offices that are set to close. Trump’s Commerce Secretary said no one would ‘call and complain’ if they miss a Social Security check—they won’t even be able to call after Elon guts the phone support.
When asked about Trump’s Executive Order to dismantle the Education Department, she seemed completely fine with it even though that will be detrimental to rural schools and disabled students. She refused to call on anyone to resign—let alone be held accountable—after one of the most glaring breaches of national security we’ve witnessed when a journalist was accidentally included in a group chat about plans to bomb Yemen. Her answers were so vapid and pathetic that it spurred a constituent to say, ‘We don’t need you to be kissing this administration’s butt.’”
