Rep. Newhouse to host 1st town hall Monday. How to ask him a question
Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Sunnyside, will host a much-anticipated telephone town hall Monday, July 28, to hear from Central Washington constituents.
The event is 5:30-7 p.m. Attendees must RSVP online by noon on Sunday in order to listen in.
Constituents will receive a phone call 10 minutes before the session with instructions on how to join and ask a question.
The town hall is Newhouse’s first since President Donald Trump came back into office promising to dramatically reshape the federal government and escalate deportations.
Constituents across Washington’s 4th Congressional District have called on Newhouse to come back to the district and answer their questions. Critics active in resistance groups, such as Indivisible Tri-Cities, have called on him to push back against Trump’s agenda.
The meeting also comes months after Newhouse and his staff reported receiving multiple threats on their lives from a Burlington, Wash., man.
Matt Reed, spokesperson for Newhouse’s office, told the Spokane Spokesman-Review that they had been advised against holding any large, in-person events after the incident. The man was arrested and is charged in federal court.
Newhouse has praised passage of Trump’s marquee domestic policy package, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” highlighting its tax relief, assistance for farmers, investments at the U.S.-Mexico border and the tax benefits for small nuclear reactors operating in the Tri-Cities.
But the bill also has an outsized impact on Newhouse’s congressional district, which runs from the Columbia River to the Canadian border and includes the Tri-Cities, Yakima and Wenatchee.
The district has the state’s highest rates of residents and children on SNAP and Medicaid, two programs that saw substantial reform and cuts in the legislative package.
And this week, Newhouse and Washington GOP Reps. Michael Baumgartner and Russ Fulcher said they favored releasing more information about deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Democrats and some Republicans tried to force a vote on the issue but no vote came to the floor before the House adjourned for its summer break.
This story was originally published July 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM.
