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Tammy Baldwin: “Is it not enough to add $3.5 trillion to the debt?”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War

Published August 20, 2025 | Video Starts at 06:59

Is it not enough to kick 17 million people off their health plans? Not for Ron Johnson, apparently. Not enough to take food stock stamps away from 3 million people. Is it not enough to add $3.5 trillion to the debt? My senior colleague is a deficit hawk, he says, but yet voted for that. And whoopsie daisy, he's figured out that this wasn't such a deficit hawk like vote to take in approving that bill. (06:59–07:04)

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Asserts that the bill will add $3.5 trillion to the national debt.

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“The president just signed this big ugly bill into law... Is it not enough to kick 17 million people off their health plans?”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 06:41-06:55
“Not enough to take food stock stamps away from 3 million people.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 06:55-07:00
“Trump's tariffs are raising costs for families, whether that's food at the grocery store.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 01:34-01:44
“My farmers get inputs from Canada and from other countries, and that brings the cost of production up.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 02:05-02:13
“Consumers, our constituents are going to see higher prices at the grocery store, at the gas pump, their energy bills, their housing bills.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 02:26-02:36
“Health care costs are going to go up dramatically. Many are going to lose their health care.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 02:39-02:44
“There's a bipartisan appetite to rein in this president [regarding tariffs].”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 04:32-04:42
“We had a vote on the floor where we repealed or you know, we addressed the emergency declaration that underpinned the Canadian tariffs.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 04:54-05:09
“My senior colleague is a deficit hawk, he says, but yet voted for [a bill that increased the deficit].”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 07:03-07:10
“We need to be truth tellers about the implications of Trump's actions and the Republicans actions in voting for this big ugly bill.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 08:29-08:40
“We need to make sure that the public is crystal clear about why their grocery bill isn't going down, but is in fact going up.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 08:51-08:59
“Why their energy bill isn't going down, but is in fact going up.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 08:58-09:03
“Why small businesses and farmers are having more input costs and their margins are getting thinner and thinner and some are going out of…”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 09:02-09:11
“I do believe that there's a bipartisan willingness to reconstitute our international health efforts.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 11:33-11:45
“PEPFAR was a wildly popular program at its inception.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 11:45-11:50
“The success [of PEPFAR] has been phenomenal.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 12:08-12:12
“To have it [PEPFAR] pulled away overnight is, first of all, cruel and has disastrous impacts.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 12:11-12:20
“There's bipartisan support for PEPFAR and some of the other health programs and even some of the nutrition programs.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 12:48-12:57
“Our farmers, by the way, benefit from the nutrition programs that we when we send food abroad and commodities abroad, our farmers benefit.”
MSNBC | Baldwin Warns of More Medicaid Cuts, Impacts of Trump's Trade War | Uploaded August 20, 2025 | 12:56-13:08