Vice President JD Vance is set to return to Wisconsin for the first time since the election, visiting La Crosse to promote President Trump’s tax legislation at Mid City Steel on Thursday.
The stop in Wisconsin continues Vance's recent tour of swing states, including visits to Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio over the past few months.
Watch: Milwaukee voters weigh in on economy ahead of Vice President JD Vance's visit to Wisconsin
On Thursday, TMJ4’s Charles Benson asked Milwaukee voters ahead of Vance's visit how they feel about the economy and whether the new Trump bill is working for them.
“I definitely feel a little bit of weight taken off my shoulders. I feel more comfortable with my ability to like budget and everything,” Payton Stark said.
Stark voted for Trump but still sees challenges.
“I still see a little bit of stress in my life a lot with uh grocery prices and fast food,” Stark said.
Allison Kruse, who voted for Harris, has a different perspective.
“I don’t see it as something that benefits me. I think, you know, as someone, especially being young, I feel like this is a hard generation to enter adulthood in. I feel like we’re being cut back in a lot of ways by like housing [has] becoming more expensive, being able to afford groceries are more expensive, schooling, loans, all of it,” Kruse said.
The Congressional Budget Office expects the new law to add $3.4 trillion to the deficit over 10 years. It also cuts $1.4 trillion in federal programs like Medicaid and SNAP, the food assistance program.
Gov. Tony Evers estimates those cuts will cost Wisconsin taxpayers $284 million in future budgets, mostly in new cost-sharing measures and new enforcement requirements for states.
The Evers administration estimates 270,000 people will lose their health insurance over 10 years. The White House is pushing back, claiming those changes will root out waste, fraud, and abuse.
President Trump said this week he will stop using the term “Big Beautiful Bill,” saying it worked to get the bill passed, but it doesn’t help explain to people what it’s all about.
A nationwide Marquette Law School poll done days after the president signed the bill in July found 59% opposed it.
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