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Tammy Baldwin: “Wisconsin had an example like that when there was a lead…”

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

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And I can give you any number of examples where people needed to reach out to divisions within the cdc, for example, and no one was there. Wisconsin had an example like that when there was a lead crisis in a number of our elementary schools. We had 3,000 students displaced and nobody was there at the lead poisoning office to help guide Wisconsin Milwaukee Public Schools through this crisis. I did want to add one other point though, related to the 988 line. When we fielded it in 2022, we understood that there were more people we're going to … (08:59–09:22)

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Asserts that 3,000 students were displaced in Wisconsin due to a lead crisis, with inadequate federal support.

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