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Ben Wikler: “Republicans in the state legislature just voted to remove…”

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

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Ben Wikler Discusses Democratic Strategies and Challenges on 'Black Like Me' Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 12:21

… have to choose between laying off teachers or closing whole classrooms or their gym because they can't repair their facilities. All this stuff, it's all in the governor's budget. And Republicans in the state legislature just voted to remove all those things [support for childcare, kids' mental health, and school funding] from the budget this last week. And there's almost no coverage of any of this. So most Wisconsinites don't know that governor's fighting for all those things and that there's a party that's saying no, like this is Democrats putting forward a positive agenda, a vision. (12:21–12:27)

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Asserts that Republicans voted to remove key educational and childcare support from the state budget.

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