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Sara Rodriguez: “The legislature didn't meet for eight months during COVID.”

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Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Sara Rodriguez Discusses Healthcare, Housing, and Political Challenges with Congressman Mark Pocan

Published May 28, 2025 | Video Starts at 08:25

What made you run for the state legislature? So it was 2019, 2020, and it was Covid. And I was just so frustrated and angry with what The legislature didn't meet for eight months during COVID. We needed leadership and they didn't meet at all. And so when that assembly seat came up, I thought that I could make a difference. Right. So I'm a nurse. (08:25–08:31)

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Asserts that the legislature did not convene for eight months during the COVID pandemic.

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“We are only one of two states us in Arkansas. That has not [expanded 12 months postpartum Medicaid coverage].”
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“Medicaid pays for, you know, almost 40% of births in Wisconsin.”
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“I worked for the CDC and I was an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer.”
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“I investigated outbreaks.”
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“I was a Peace Corps volunteer.”
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“I went to Samoa in the South Pacific and I did health education.”
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“I worked with [the World Health Organization] on quite a few HIV AIDS projects.”
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“There were only three [seats] that we were able to flip and mine was one of them.”
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“Now we've got more fair maps in Wisconsin.”
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“Medicaid expansion [is needed] to get more revenue in the door and pay for initiatives.”
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“We're only one of two states that hasn't expanded 12 months postpartum [Medicaid coverage].”
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“We're one of 10 states that has not expanded Medicaid.”
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“I go to all 72 counties every year in this role.”
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“There's an enormous shortage of nurses across Wisconsin.”
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“We have an outflow of our population, particularly our young people are leaving.”
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“Those initiatives were all included in the governor's budget, which he has proposed and is now sitting with the Joint Finance Committee.”
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“They stripped out many of those provisions that would be able to help us increase our healthcare workforce.”
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“The governor was able to increase spending for schools.”
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“He was able to do was put in perpetuity, basically increases every year for public schools.”
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“We had some good bipartisan support for some housing bills to put more dollars within housing.”
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“Through WIDA, which is our housing authority here in Wisconsin, we were able to put some dollars into affordable housing.”
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“We know that over 60% of Wisconsinites want us to expand Medicaid.”
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“We are missing out on a 90% match from the federal government [for Medicaid expansion].”
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“The bill in the assembly, it actually has the number of signatures on it who have signed on to this bill is enough to get it to pass in the…”
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“We've done a little bit more math on some of the food stamp cuts and what they're planning on doing. And that's like $350 million that would…”
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“They're not telling the truth about cutting Medicaid and now cutting Medicare as well as, as food stamps.”
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“And so if we think that these food pantries are going to be able to absorb a lot of these cuts, they're just not going to be able to do…”
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“Plus, they've already cut, you know, some of our farmers who were, who have already planned, have already planted, have already bought the…”
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“And we're cutting food stamps.”
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“Yeah, it passed the House, it still has to pass the Senate.”
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“There's so much partisanship within our jobs, but you don't see that on the ground when you go and visit people.”
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“There is more that, you know, connects us and divides us.”
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“We should continue to call and do the things we need to do to make sure that [elected officials are] following through with what they said…”
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