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Tammy Baldwin: “The president's fiscal year 26 skinny budget request came…”

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

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Senator Tammy Baldwin Discusses Apprenticeship Program Challenges and Funding Cuts

Published | Video Starts at 01:27

The administration has canceled several apprenticeship contracts, including contracts that were helping various communities grow their apprenticeship programs. And then The president's fiscal year 26 skinny budget request came out, which seeks to really decimate funding at Department of Labor, state and local workforce programs by over a third. At the same time, President Trump also issued an executive order calling for, as you just mentioned, 1 million new apprentices in our nation. And those actions seem to be at odds with one another. (01:27–01:40)

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Asserts that the fiscal year 26 budget request seeks to cut funding for workforce programs by over a third.

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