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Tom Tiffany: “We have now fallen below Mississippi in literacy for our…”

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Congressman Tom Tiffany Discusses WTO Withdrawal and U.S. Sovereignty on New Americans Unrestricted

Published May 23, 2025 | Video Starts at 24:13

But I believe if he had a Democrat legislature. But the biggest concern to me is twofold in regards to Tony Evers. One is education. We have now fallen below Mississippi in literacy for our fourth graders. Think about it. Our kids can't read and they're doing worse than the kids in Mississippi currently with education. He is the education governor. (24:13–24:19)

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Asserts that Wisconsin's fourth-grade literacy rates are now below those of Mississippi.

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Tom Tiffany

“It's been 20 years since there's been a vote [on whether the United States should be a member of the World Trade Organization].”
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“Those subsidies are up to $50,000 an acre for wind and solar.”
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“The SALT deduction, state and local tax, the New Yorkers were able to get it raised from 10 to $40,000.”
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“That price tag on that is over $300 billion.”
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“The World Trade Organization has not helped the United States of America. In fact, it has hindered us by taking the side of China.”
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“It is only us that can change that by a majority vote in both the House and the Senate.”
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“Our farmers and manufacturers have given up so much as a result of this globalist movement that has subjugated our sovereignty to these…”
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“We have turned our sovereignty over to countries like China, to the World Trade Organization, to the detriment of America.”
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“We gave away so much of our industrial capacity to China.”
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“President Xi has made it very clear they [China] seek global hegemony here in the 21st century.”
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“Free trade has not worked for the benefit of the United States of America.”
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“The International Organization for Migration... had industrialized that pipeline of sending people to the United States of America.”
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“At a minimum, we should be defunding the International Organization for Migration because they seek to breach our borders and breach our…”
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“We actually did one bill about a month ago that went through the House, the no Rogue Rulings act.”
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“The no Rogue Rulings act... limits a ruling to only those that filed the lawsuit. So it prevents these nationwide injunctions.”
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“The Education Department falls under the executive branch, which is the president, which is President Trump.”
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“We do fund the courts. And if there's a judge that is not going to follow the law that's not going to respect that separation of powers…”
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“We are securing the border. We are putting measures in place that are going to build on the executive orders of President Trump to make sure…”
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“If you do not have five, I believe it's 5% of your project started for one of these intermittent sources of power like wind and solar within…”
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“We defunded no tax breaks for Planned Parenthood.”
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“There's no taxpayer funded gender surgeries for both underage people as well as adults.”
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“There is no reason to go to $40,000. Just no reason at all. So I hope they scale that back. It should be scaled back to $10,000 but there is…”
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“He introduced a budget that would take us back to deficit. It has a structural deficit in it.”
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“His Public Service Commission wants to close some of our coal plants where we won't have this baseload power.”
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“We are converting thousands of acres of productive farmland here in Wisconsin to these intermittent sources of power.”
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“By any fair reading, the state supreme court cannot overturn those maps.”
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“Dane County's fastest growing state or county in Wisconsin.”
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“Look at President Trump. He did one of his campaign stops in Dane county in 2024.”
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“We have good issues with which to compete with, including the failure of the educational system because Wisconsinites, regardless of…”
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