Senator Tammy Baldwin
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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.
We have other supplies across the border.
And then about a quarter of all farmers use the Affordable Care Act for their health care coverage.
And so this president is just contributing to the headwinds that our farmers are facing.
And he knows things are bad.
He's talking about bailouts.
But our farmers don't want bailouts.