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Featuring: Mike Alfonso, Republican Party | Candidate, Wisconsin State Assembly District 7

Michael Alfonso Joins Ben Dryden To Discuss Campaign For Congress

Published October 31, 2025 | Video Starts at 24:15

Obviously, right now with the government shutdown, enhanced. What is it? Obamacare subsidies. But it's the enhanced premium tax credits. Yeah. If you were there, what would you do? … This shutdown is about...holding the country hostage to make sure illegals have health care. … with terrorists. That's not. You don't get to just hold the entire country hostage. EBT credits are about to run out. Democrats do not care. (24:15–24:27)

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Asserts that the government shutdown is being used to ensure healthcare for undocumented immigrants.

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“From 2020 to 2020, four men, 18 to 29 shifted almost 20 points for Donald Trump.”
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“Of the college graduates from last year, 60% did not find a job.”
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“The country is completely bankrupt. We're peeking in at $40 trillion.”
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“The youngest ever elected [to Congress] was 22.”
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“Christians were the ones that invented dressing up as, you know, scary things to ward off evil spirits.”
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“I was actually born in Chicago, Illinois, and we moved to Viless County, Land o Lakes, when I was about 2 years old.”
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“I went to college in UW Madison.”
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“I got an opportunity to work for Dan Bongino. I was his producer for his podcast and his radio.”
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“Our home Catholic parish was actually in Michigan.”
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“They saw the writing on the wall. I mean, you look at Chicago now, they knew it was coming 25 years ago.”
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“My wife Evita actually went to college [in Chicago].”
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“Another student at her school got shot on the public transit and died.”
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“08, the housing crash. The community really shrunk a lot.”
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“I went to study math.”
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“This liberal arts stuff at UW Madison is a nightmare.”
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“That's where you see all the problems with whiteness classes and inherent racism.”
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“It's not exaggerated at all.”
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“You had to attend these mandatory lectures...diversity, equity and inclusion.”
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“They get [healthcare] through emergency care.”
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“I did say my pronouns because I didn't want to be the odd man out.”
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“I actually dropped out of school.”
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“I married Evita while I was still finishing up the final semester of my senior year.”
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“She was writing for the Federalist, which was a remote job, a conservative newspaper or publication online.”
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“It was the middle of the Biden admin. It was 2022.”
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“Tom [Tiffany] has proven it with his voting record.”
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“I actually had a job lined up to work in the White House.”
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“I was going to work for the dfc, the Development Finance Corporation, which is a fancy name for a subdivision under the Treasury.”
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“During the Biden administration, everything was tough. Young people out of college couldn't find jobs.”
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“EBT credits are about to run out. Democrats do not care.”
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“I've seen [H1B visas] being used to fill part-time accounting jobs.”
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“The founding fathers wrote the constitution and said 25 year olds can run for office and they let the people decide.”
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“If you go to an emergency care unit, they have to by law service everyone and that debt goes on to the illegal and it ends up getting wiped…”
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“It's billions of dollars a year. It's not something to turn your nose at. It's a very concerning number.”
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“Really where that problem Comes from is the southern border. We didn't close it.”
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“Trump's done a really, really good job [on closing the southern border].”
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“I would like to see the money from taxes follow the student, not go to a school district.”
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“Passing a federal abortion ban is something that's very, very difficult in the near future.”
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“Bringing [abortion decision-making] to the state level was one of Donald Trump's greatest achievements.”
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“America was the shining star for the entire world. That's not us now, like I said, almost $40 trillion in debt.”
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“The federal government was never written to be as big as it is.”
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“Every single vote I make will be centered on bringing power back to the states.”
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“It's not about getting reelected, it's not about getting elected a first time.”
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“It's about being right with our Savior in heaven.”
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