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Mark Pocan: “We will likely now have to pay in 15% of all the food…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Mark Pocan Discusses Impact of Proposed Health Care and Social Program Cuts in Wisconsin Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 04:37

All that means is you could be off a couple dollars, but they gave a waiver up to $54 as an error rate. Now it's down to zero. It's going to pump Wisconsin into a different category and We will likely now have to pay in 15% of all the food assistance costs, plus we pay now 75% of the administrative costs, not 50%. So when you start factoring all this in, this is a huge burden on the state, which is not going to be able to make up for all this. (04:37–04:49)

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