GREEN BAY, Wis. – Ben Delie is a lifelong resident of Green Bay and president of AFSCME Local 3055 (Council 32). He is a utility worker for Green Bay Area Public Schools and a Green Bay alderman.
So he knows firsthand just how much his beloved community will suffer from the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that was signed into law earlier this month — with his congressman’s support.
And Delie and his fellow AFSCME members are not about to let Rep. Tony Wied off the hook for voting for the big, ugly bill.
On Tuesday, AFSCME members and elected officials from across Green Bay joined Delie at a press conference to highlight how the law betrays working families and hurts Green Bay and Wisconsin.
All this to give billionaires the largest tax break in history.
AFSCME research shows that more than 275,000 Wisconsinites will lose lifesaving health care because the law guts Medicaid. Also, 375,000 Wisconsin families will lose critical food benefits from the law’s cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP). AFSCME members also talked about the more than 9,000 Wisconsin jobs that the law puts at risk.
“The Big Beautiful Bill is an attack on the working and middle class in this country,” Delie said. “It takes our tax code, which is already unfair to working people, and turns it into a handout for billionaires and giant corporations. And Tony Wied and other anti-union representatives worked hard to pass it.”
The consequences will be stark.
“Hungry kids at schools, rural hospitals closing, nursing homes forced to kick out seniors. That’s the world we are facing right now, because of Tony Wied’s vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” Delie said.
Since federal Medicaid money makes up more than 20% of Wisconsin’s budget, “these pro-billionaire cuts are going to punch a huge hole in the Wisconsin state budget,” he added.
To make up for the shortfall, the state is bound to cut public services that all Wisconsin communities rely on.
Many of the law’s cuts won’t take effect until after the 2026 elections — when Wied and every other member of the U.S. House of Representatives will be up for election. But Delie vowed to remember Wied’s role in passing the cruel law.
“We’re not going to forget,” he said. “We’re going to make sure everyone knows about Tony Wied’s betrayal now, and remembers it in 2026, and in 2028.”
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