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Gwen Moore: “Part of the President's proposal [is] to try to provide 4%…”

Featuring: Gwen Moore, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 4

On the Issues: Wisconsin U.S. Representative Gwen Moore

Published May 19, 2026 | Video Starts at 20:16

We bailed out Wall street, and yet there has not been an effective program that has been able to unlock those seized assets to help people restructure their mortgage. And that's Part of the President's proposal [is] to try to provide 4% mortgages for people to refinance their mortgages. Still trying to get at that problem. There's anger because of that. But it's not just the financial services sector that people are rebelling against. (20:16–20:25)

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Asserts that the President's proposal includes offering 4% mortgages for refinancing.

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“There's got to be at least $400 billion in waste and fraud in Medicare.”
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“1% of our population [holds] 40% of the wealth.”
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“About 24, 25% of Wisconsinites currently do not have that kind of ID.”
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“77% of African American males 18 to 24 do not have this ID.”
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“67% of African American females don't have this ID.”
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“60% [of Hispanic folks] as compared to, generally speaking, the white community, 17% of white adults don't have this kind of ID.”
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“The majority party is bound and determined to use their newfound power with the Tea Party and the ability for corporations to donate…”
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“Corporations...find billions of dollars to spend as corporate individuals to benefit some candidate of their choice.”
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“Oil and gas companies benefit from the government largesse, but a baby who needs WIC can be cut.”
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“They [Republicans] fought hard to try to break organized labor and they have fought hard against teachers.”
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“Presidents as far back as anybody could remember were able to raise the debt ceiling. And it was a yawner.”
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“Here we had the House of Representatives hold the Congress hostage over raising that debt ceiling vote. And of course it cost us a little…”
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“We could find common ground if, for example, the majority party was not bound and determined to leverage the power that they have to win the…”
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“We haven't seen job growth any lower than that [since Herbert Hoover].”
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“We have not seen that policy work in the last 14 years where you just give all the money to, you allow corporations to take their tax…”
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“The fact that it [the American Jobs Act] never had any chance of passing speaks more to the tactics in Congress.”
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“The leader of the Senate saying under no circumstances is he going to give a quote, unquote, win to this Obama.”
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“Why can't we get a transportation bill passed?”
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“Republicans have been great fans of paving, you know, every ounce of ground that there is.”
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“This is the first tax cut that the Republicans have not liked because I guess President Obama proposed it.”
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“Trade agreements certainly benefit corporations.”
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“Panama [is] one of the biggest places to offshore assets.”
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“The majority party in the House argued that the Affordable Health Care act ought to have been done [in pieces].”
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“Republicans want to pass the tax pieces first. I think they want to lower corporate tax rates.”
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“The majority party in our House [is] trying to destroy all of the work that we did...under Dodd Frank.”
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“There has not been an effective program that has been able to unlock those seized assets to help people restructure their mortgage.”
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“People have been unemployed for longer than 99 weeks. Their unemployment benefits have run out.”
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“People in the majority party held that unemployment compensation hostage to continuing the Bush era tax cuts.”
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“Small businesses can't get credit.”
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“More boarded small businesses now than I have seen in a couple of decades.”
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“The majority party, at least in the House of Representatives, wants to maintain its hegemony.”
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“Efforts to deny would-be Democratic voters, minorities, the elderly and students the right to vote.”
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“African American unemployment here in this city has been anywhere from 30 to 40, 50% even before Barack Obama was elected.”
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“The whole crack cocaine, powder cocaine bill was put through under Bill Clinton.”
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“President Obama, under his Justice Department, has reversed [the crack cocaine, powder cocaine bill].”
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“There was no settlement with the black farmers, and that settlement came through under President Obama's watch.”
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“I think there are things that he could have, should have, oughta, might have done differently.”
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“The first stimulus package...could have helped more African Americans if it had been targeted the way Obama's labor secretary, Ilda Solis…”
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“It wasn't timely because we should have done it under George W. Bush's presidency.”
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“I think it [voter photo ID law] will disenfranchise primarily African Americans and Hispanic voters. It will disenfranchise possibly…”
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“Here in Milwaukee, for example, 77% of African American males 18 to 24 don't have this ID.”
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“The county and the city are broke. They don't have the monies to provide free birth certificates.”
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“We had, what, 3 million votes cast, I think, in 2008, and there were 20 cases of fraud, none of which a voter ID would have stopped.”
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“Voting, number one, Mike, is a right. It's not a privilege.”
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“It requires that you go and expend money for a birth certificate.”
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“Even if they give it to you free, you got to sit there for two hours in line to get one.”
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“There are 30,000 people living in each one of those zip codes.”
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“They're like 90% usage in these five post offices.”
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“It still costs $20 [for a certification of birth].”
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“The Government Accountability board was given $10 million for the state to implement this [voter ID law].”
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“We don't have a DMV that's open on Saturday in Milwaukee.”
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“We still have DMVs that are open one day a month.”
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“Our office did weigh in on this issue of for-profit colleges.”
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“The rule really focused on trying to have these for-profit colleges demonstrate the employability of students after they secured these…”
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“There was a tremendous lobbying effort against these rules.”
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“There's going to be a tremendous amount of research and data collection that is done with respect to the graduation rates and the employment…”
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“Recent polls have shown that the Republicans are way ahead in Florida.”
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“The only people who are talking about destroying Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are Republicans.”
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“There could be low turnout, but not just because people are upset that Obama or the Democrats didn't deliver as much as they wanted them to…”
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“There are states that purge your lists if you haven't voted in the last cycle.”
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“If Republicans have it their way, there will be a lot of people who won't vote for one reason or another.”
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“In 1969, I was one of 39 students who came to Marquette who were not rich, middle class, or could play basketball.”
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