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Tom Tiffany: “The Department of Public Instruction has lowered standards…”

Featuring: Tom Tiffany, Republican | U.S. House Wisconsin, District 7

Tom Tiffany one-on-one with CBS 58's Meredith Hackler

Published August 3, 2026 | Video Starts at 11:44

I mean, we took great pride in making sure that our kids got a good education and they had good teachers. And what I want to see happen is The Department of Public Instruction has lowered standards here in Wisconsin. Wisconsin has a long, proud history of giving a very good education to our children. Always in the top five with test scores. Well, that's slipped. (11:44–11:49)

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“Utility rates used to be second lowest. We're now the second highest, over $2 billion in increases.”
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“There's already 3 million people that have left the United States either voluntarily or have been deported who are here illegally, many of…”
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“It's over $18,000 per student in Wisconsin now.”
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“Almost 70% of fourth graders are not proficient readers in Wisconsin.”
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“The budget last year went from $99 billion to $114 billion.”
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“There is $1.6 million of food stamps that were laundered through a gas station right here in Milwaukee over the course of three years.”
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“Property taxes went up the most in 30 years last December.”
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“We've had the largest increase in utility rates the last eight years that we've seen in a long time.”
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“I'll propose [to end] the 400 year property tax on day one.”
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“We will audit all of state government.”
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“There was a proposal to return the surplus to the people of Wisconsin and it was rejected.”
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“The last budget a year ago had a $15 billion increase for the first time over $100 billion went to state government.”
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“The surplus amounted to about $2.5 billion.”
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“State government has a spending problem. It does not have a revenue problem.”
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“Over the next 10 years we're going to spend 30% more money on the Medicaid program.”
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“This has been done twice successfully in Wisconsin. Governor Thompson did it back in the 1990s with his program and they were able to get…”
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“It was done again after the Great Recession in 2008 and 2009.”
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“No data centers should be built unless they meet a series of conditions.”
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“We should remove the tax incentive that was signed by Governor Evers a couple years ago.”
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“We've seen mass transit systems like the one in California that has been being built for the last 10 years. Severe cost overruns, it's still…”
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“We're seeing millions of dollars as a result of the federal efforts right now in Wisconsin where Medicaid dollars are being stolen…”
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“Governor Ebers has said there's very little fraud. That's Going on, it's not a concern.”
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“I believe on a limited basis, I think we're going to find tens of millions of dollars of, you know, not just fraud, but also, like, improper…”
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“Crime has been reduced 20% here in the United States.”
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“The fentanyl has been reduced significantly.”
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“The violent crime rate has went down 20%.”
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“$2 billion and counting of increases in the last eight years in people's utility bills.”
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“In Wisconsin, we saw last winter, some people's monthly bill went up 2 to $300 year over year.”
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“The Madison city clerk in 2024... did not count 197 ballots after we raised concerns about her putting out 2,000 duplicate absentee ballots.”
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“The Dane County Clerk declared that people would just claim themselves to be indefinitely confined... That clerk did not have the legal…”
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“Joe Biden won the presidency in 2020.”
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