Rep. Phelps: Slams Republican plan to gut public benefit programs: “cruelty disguised as reform”

MADISON WI – Today, during the first hearing of the Assembly Committee on Public Benefit Reform, Representative Christian Phelps (D-Eau Claire) stood firmly against a slate of Republican-authored bills that would raise barriers to accessing essential programs like unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and other forms of public assistance. “These bills don’t solve a problem—they create new ones,” said ...