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Jeff Smith: “We had to pass a budget before July 4 last year when Trump…”

Featuring: Jeff Smith, Democratic | Wisconsin State Senate, District 31

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Jeff Smith Show: 4-3-26

Published | Video Starts at 16:20

So here those taxes have to go out and pay state taxes. So I touched, when I mentioned the hospital assessment, that was what I was talking about. Right, right. So we had to, We had to pass a budget before July 4 last year when Trump was going to sign his big bill and that bill was going to cut us off from...federal funding that hospitals get. from. What do I want, how do I want to say it? It was Going to limit what we could do. (16:20–16:52)

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Asserts that a budget was passed to avoid losing federal hospital funding due to a bill by Trump.

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