‘We’ll Continue Holding Their Feet To The Fire’: Tammy Baldwin Pledges To Fight GOP Budget Bill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aLZz4NorsQ 

 

May 21, 2025

At a Senate Democratic press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) spoke about the GOP budget reconciliation bill.

 

Transcript

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thank you so good afternoon i am here to

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speak on behalf of the nearly 14 million

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Americans whose health care is on the

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chopping block right now in this bill

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republicans are advancing a plan to take

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away care from millions of working

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families so that the superw wealthy can

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get richer so big corporations many of

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which we know jack up the costs of

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health care and drugs in the first place

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don't have to pay their fair

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share these are giveaways for their

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wealthy friends at the cost of Americans

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health and their lives that's the deal

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while rep Republicans squabble over just

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how many Americans they're willing to

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kick off their insurance will continue

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holding their feet to the fire who will

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pay the price so rich folks can get

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richer a single mom who has two jobs and

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no time for extra paperwork a working

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family who can only afford their

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coverage thanks to the marketplace tax

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credits rural hospitals that depend upon

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Medicaid to keep their doors open all

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these Americans health care and more are

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on the chopping block so that big

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corporations can become more profitable

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the truth is Republicans know this is

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unpopular we are watching them outright

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lie to their constituents about what

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their bill actually does we are watching

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them hide from their constituents and

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try to tell people not to believe their

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lying

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eyes today's latest proof point comes

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from the president himself he sees the

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writing on the

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wall he said to House Republicans

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earlier today and I paraphrase "Don't f

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around on

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Medicaid." Welcome to the party Mr

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president i pledge to work with anyone

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to do right by Wisconsin and I welcome

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the president's sudden

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epiphany i hope President Trump for once

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uses his iron grip over Republicans to

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help and not hurt Americans and not gut

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Medicaid if not these cuts to Medicaid

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are his legacy and he owns that

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the issue is not going away quietly into

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the night we'll continue raising the

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alarms telling the stories of the real

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people who are getting the rug pulled

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out from under them and fighting back