Rep. Al Green disrupts Trump speech and is escorted out
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Rep. Al Green, D-Houston, was escorted out of President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress on Tuesday evening after yelling that Trump had no mandate to cut Medicaid. The congressman stood up at the beginning of the address, shouted that the president had no mandate, and was met with chants from the Republican side to be thrown out.
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