Baldwin Describes Focus on Health Care During the Shutdown

Frederica Freyberg:
The continuing resolution passed with eight Senate Democrats joining Republicans. Senator Tammy Baldwin was not among them voting against the measure, as it did not include extension of the ACA enhanced tax credits, saying it was the shutdown trade off.

Tammy Baldwin:
I knew that our best chance of successfully fighting for our constituents’ ability to afford their health care, especially those who buy it through healthcare.gov, was to tie it to the continuing resolution. … Go back to the past summer and what the president calls his “one big, beautiful bill,” which took away Medicaid to the tune of nearly $1 trillion and cut SNAP to the tune of nearly half $1 trillion in order to pay for tax breaks that disproportionately impact billionaires and profitable corporations. That tells you who this president is, who the Republican Party is behind. And we showed you just now who we’re fighting for. And we’ll continue to fight for.