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Tammy Baldwin: “Your budget request would also make higher education more…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 05:52

And I will not support a proposal to cut funding to Wisconsin for public elementary and secondary education. Your budget request would also make higher education more expensive and harder to access for working families. While increased funding for the Pell Grant program is important, that just maintains current benefits. At the same time, the budget eliminates nearly every other program to help students pursue and afford higher education. (05:52–06:02)

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Asserts that the budget request would increase the cost and reduce access to higher education for working families.

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