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Manufactured Crisis: How Trump and Republicans Broke Wisconsin's Health Care

Published | Video Starts at 06:07

The year before that, in 2024, before the big ugly bill went through, they paid $9 billion federal taxes. That's an 87% giveaway. It's not because their business struggled. Their profits went up 45% between 2024 and 2025. But Republicans in Washington, every single member of Congress from Wisconsin who's a Republican, [voted for] a $7.8 billion tax break [for Amazon]. I'm looking at you, Derek Van Orden, Brian Stile, Glenn Grossman, the whole lot of them. Tom Tiffany, now seeking a bigger and better job after voting to give Jeff Bezos himself through Amazon a what is $7.8 billion tax break. (06:07–06:14)

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