MADISON, Wis. – In anticipation of Trump’s visit to Wisconsin today, A Better Wisconsin Together is setting the record straight on how the MAGA agenda has devastated rural Wisconsin communities, all thanks to Trump’s Badger State Bestie Tom Tiffany.
“Donald Trump said it himself: Tom Tiffany has always been at his side,” said Lucy Ripp, a spokesperson for A Better Wisconsin Together. “But where does that leave the Wisconsinites, many of them in rural communities, that Tiffany is paid to represent?”
High and dry.
In fact, Tiffany has voted several times to make life worse for Wisconsinites in rural communities across the state. Tiffany’s record of neglecting rural Wisconsin includes:
- Voting at least 7 times to continue Trump’s unlawful tariffs that have priced Wisconsintes out of everything from fuel to food, caused a record number of farms to file for bankruptcy, and put the livelihoods of Wisconsin’s soybean farmers at risk;
- Casting the deciding vote to continue Trump’s war of choice in Iran, despite the fact that the war has priced farmers out of fertilizer and forced rural Wisconsinites to pay 40% more at the gas pump;
- Putting over 35,000 Wisconsinites at risk of losing their access to food and groceries by slashing funding for SNAP and using the money to give tax cuts to billionaires;
- Voting to gut Medicaid and not extending essential ACA tax credits, which in turn: hiked healthcare costs, put a hospital in Tiffany’s own district at risk of closing, and put 60,000 Wisconsinites at risk of losing their health insurance – with rural Wisconsinites in Tiffany’s very own district seeing some of the highest price hikes for care;
- Rubberstamping Trump’s scheme to eliminate the Department of Education, which in turn would sever essential resources for Wisconsin’s rural school districts;
- Voting for the largest cut to public education in Wisconsin history and pushing taxpayer money to private voucher schools instead, a move that Wisconsin’s rural communities are still feeling the consequences of more than a decade later.
