Senator Tammy Baldwin
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And then he gets into office and he has turned around and done everything he possibly could to increase costs for Americans.
It is appalling and he needs to be held accountable.
But first, we need to make sure
that these Affordable Care Act premium tax credits are continued into the future so that we don't see millions of people lose their health insurance.
And you were right when you were diagnosing the additional problems in the healthcare system.
Once you have a whole bunch of people uninsured,
You typically, if you don't have health insurance, you don't seek preventative care, you don't seek annual physicals, you don't seek care at all until it's so bad you go to the most expensive settings possible, urgent care centers, emergency rooms, and that drives up health care costs for everyone.
Well, there's a critical sort of issue.
bringing together of issues.
Our farmers are facing incredible headwinds.
And we are a dairy state.
You may have heard of Wisconsin as America's dairy land.
So a lot of our farmers are in dairy.
And that is a lot of labor.
So there's issues with regard to visas for their workforce.
There are issues with regard to the tariffs that are
wreaking havoc on a lot of their inputs and supplies.
In Wisconsin, a northern state, we have a lot of back and forth with Canada.
A lot of the fertilizer inputs come from Canada.
Those have shot up because of tariffs.