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Time to #Fight4Medicaid: This Thursday at 6pm, gather in WI GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos's own district to ask him to sign permission slips for his caucus to do what their voters actually want: expand Medicaid! RSVP & share: facebook.com/events/3072908…
Activists are going door to door in Republican districts all over Wisconsin to #Fight4Medicaid. Join a neighborhood team and talk to some voters. Over and over, we're finding Republicans who think it's ridiculous that their GOP Reps won't expand Medicaid!

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Our teams were out on the doors last weekend. We're out this week. We'll be out there this coming weekend. Sorry, GOP: your voters see what you're doing, and they don't like it. #Fight4Medicaid

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BREAKING: Under cover of darkness tonight, Wisconsin's Republicans jammed through committee their plan to refuse $1 billion in federal Medicaid money. The GOP is burning money and hurting people out of ideological spite. The Democratic Party of Wisconsin is here to fight back. 1/
Story so far:
1 @GovEvers elected on promise to expand Medicaid
2 After huge public consultation, Evers unveils #PeoplesBudget that keeps promise, bringing in $1.6bn in fed $
3 GOP votes to strip Medicaid expansion out
4 Tonight: GOP advances their own proposal, expansion-free
What is the GOP rationale for not accepting federal money to expand Medicaid & cover 82k people?

Here's how @SenDarling, GOP co-chair of the Joint Finance Committee explained it: "We're not expanding welfare, that was the big concern," she said.

Hmmm.

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