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Ben Wikler: “Defeated the number one policy priority for the Trump…”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 42:48

But it's essentially about track record, which I think speaks to the way that I engage in these fights. I'll say, before I was the state chair in Wisconsin, being involved in this massive uprising that Defeated the number one policy priority for the Trump administration, which was to gut the Affordable Care Act and gut Medicaid. That was a fight we were supposed to lose. On day one of the Trump administration, they had already practiced passing the bill under Obama, who vetoed it. (42:48–42:55)

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Asserts that the Trump administration's top policy priority was to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid.

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