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DONALD TRUMP’S PROJECT 2025 WILL HURT RURAL AMERICANS

TOP MESSAGE: Donald Trump lied to Americans on the campaign trail, and everyday working people are going to pay the price. Trump’s Project 2025 agenda takes aim at the very voters who helped elect him in November—including rural Americans—but Democrats aren’t going to let his reckless agenda hurt our country without a fight.

Today, over 313,000 Wisconsinites have access to affordable health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, but Donald Trump wants to repeal the ACA and rip away health care from families across the state.

Already rural Americans are more likely to have limited access to health care and less likely to have private or employer-sponsored health insurance. Donald Trump wants to make this crisis worse.

Trump’s Project 2025 agenda will also further undermine reproductive health care access in rural communities.

A majority of the more than 2.5 million women of reproductive age without easy access to obstetric providers live in rural communities. In Wisconsin alone, one third of counties have no OB-GYN to deliver babies or provide health care.Thanks to Trump, women in 19 states—many with large swaths of rural land—now live under an extreme abortion ban. Some women must travel over 700 miles to access abortion care.

And even in Wisconsin, where Planned Parenthood has resumed abortion services in Milwaukee, Madison, and Sheboygan, comprehensive reproductive health care is still inaccessible for too many women.

Trump’s second term also puts farmers at risk. Project 2025 calls for repealing major federal farm aid programs like crop insurance and eliminating subsidies that provide billions in support to America’s farmers.

Trump’s extreme agenda also puts rural children’s education at risk — pushing policies that would take money away from our public education system and put them into schools that simply aren’t in rural America.

Trump’s first week in office left no room for doubt: he will enact his Project 2025 agenda and devastate rural communities across America.

Wisconsinites can trust that Democrats like Tammy Baldwin will fight tooth and nail against Trump’s Project 2025 agenda to protect the programs rural families rely on.

Tammy knows Wisconsin’s rural communities are the economic backbone of our state and is working hard to protect our agricultural industries, strengthen our infrastructure, and make sure that rural Wisconsinites’ voices are heard in Washington.