WASHINGTON, D.C. (WRN) — As the federal government shutdown continues, Senator Tammy Baldwin says Democrats are not backing down in their demands.
Baldwin says hundreds of thousands of Americans will be unable to keep their healthcare if tax credits are allowed to expire.
“If that’s not a crisis, I don’t know what is. So for me and the people I work for, I can’t just let this happen and go along to get along,” Baldwin said.
Baldwin joined Kara Pitt-D’Andrea Tuesday on a virtual press conference. The Milwaukee childcare provider said her healthcare could become unaffordable and pushed back on Republican narratives about persons in the country illegally accessing government healthcare.
“It isn’t true. It is lies. It’s vitriol. It’s detrimental, it’s abusive, it’s manipulative,” Pitt-D’Andrea said.
Baldwin said the only path forward is a bipartisan solution but that her Republican colleagues “are nowhere to be found.”