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Federalist Radio Hour

Tom Tiffany On The Freedom Caucus, Debt Crisis, And Rural GOP

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the dynamics of his district, analyze rural Republican messaging, and examine the looming debt crisis.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

0:19.9

I'm Emily Gisinski, Culture Editor here at the Federalist.

0:22.7

As always, you can email the show at radioatthefederalist.com, follow us on Twitter at FDRLST.

0:28.2

Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts and make sure to subscribe to the Premium version of the Federalist.com.

0:35.0

Today, we're joined by Wisconsin Congressman Tom Tiffany, who represents the seventh congressional district up there.

0:42.0

Congressman, thank you so much for joining us.

0:44.8

Emily, it's good to join you today.

0:47.0

Absolutely. Now, you were elected back in May of 2020 in a special election.

0:51.6

You are on the Judiciary and National Resources Committee.

0:56.3

You long served in the Wisconsin State Assembly and the State Senate for the 12th district,

1:00.4

but you also grew up in a dairy farm around Elmwood, Wisconsin.

1:04.6

You have a degree in agricultural economics.

1:07.6

So I wanted to see Congressman, if you could just start by telling us a little bit about the story that took you from that dairy farm to the United States Congress.

1:16.1

Yeah, grew up on a dairy farm.

1:18.9

Seven brothers and sisters, Western Wisconsin, you know, clay, kind of a classic big farm family that used to see back in the 50s,

1:26.1

60s, 70s.

1:28.1

So when I got to graduation at a high school, my dad looked at my brothers who were younger than me and he said,

1:34.0

Hey, I got better stock coming up.

1:36.0

You should move along.

1:38.0

They were more suited to the farm than I was.

1:41.7

So I went on.

1:43.7

So I went on.

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