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Ben Wikler: “Ron Johnson wants to cut Medicaid even more.”

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

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Ben Wikler Discusses GOP Tax Cuts and Medicaid Cuts with Wisconsin Implications

Published | Video Starts at 02:28

For everybody else, this is just a cash grab. It is kicking more than 10 million people off their Medicaid, including people in my state of Wisconsin, Ron Johnson's own constituents. Ron Johnson wants to cut Medicaid even more. It's an even worse idea. But one one economic analysis looked at all the cuts to programs that benefit poor and working class people in this country and compared those to the tax cuts for the ultra wealthy, and they almost perfectly even themselves out. (02:28–02:32)

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Asserts that Ron Johnson supports further Medicaid cuts.

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