Scott Hennen’s interview with Minnesota Rep. Michelle Fischbach
WASHINGTON – Republican Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach says Democrats are misinformed when it comes to the GOP budget that passed the House.
“Medicaid is not talked about in this budget resolution. There’s different committees that get goals to reduce and things like that, but the president made it clear the other day. He said it won’t be touched,” Fischbach said.
The Medicare Rights Center says the House budget bill includes “destructive changes like lowering state matching rates, rolling back federal funds for the Medicaid expansion population, restructuring Medicaid by cutting and capping funding, as well as imposing burdensome work and administrative requirements.”
Fischbach wants to make sure the Trump tax cuts he signed into law in 2017 are extended which Democrats are working against.
“If they want to see an economy go bad, then watch those Trump tax cuts expire. It doesn’t affect millionaires and billionaires. Seventy-five thousand families in (Minnesota’s) 7th (Congressional) District would see their household’s child tax credit cut in half,” Fischbach said.
The Institute On Taxation and Economic Policy reports those cuts provide the richest one percent in Minnesota with 62.2 percent of the state’s tax cuts.
Fischbach also touched on protests at her offices in Moorhead and Willmar.
“I’m sure someone if financing that garbage. If the paper reports on that, I want them to ask them where they’re from, because I’m betting money they’re not from the 7th District,” Fischbach said.
