Tammy Baldwin: “I just would want to stress and press for all due but considered speed on this.”

In light of the documented damage and its impact on local and state capacity, I request that FEMA give full and fair consideration to Wisconsin’s appeal for Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) funding.

Countless researchers who have devoted their careers to improving healthcare for all of us have watched years of painstaking work and hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer investments destroyed overnight.

The agency’s actions over the last year are an outrageous abuse of administrative power that will leave Americans sicker, poorer, and dying from preventable causes. Each of these canceled grants put real life patients further from the care…

Now, rather than take responsibility and bring this war to an end, the Trump Administration is pulling the wool over the American people’s eyes.