“The Chinese and the European Union are making it more difficult for Wisconsin firms to sell new products. 90% of products from our state’s dairy industry go overseas,” Evers told ABC News.
After endorsing Trump in the 2016 election, Walker “respectfully asked” the president to “reconsider” his position on the tariffs.
\"If the President wants to protect good-paying, family-supporting jobs in America, especially here in Wisconsin, then he should reconsider the administration's position on these tariffs, particularly on ultra-thin aluminum,” Walker said in a March press release.
Since then, he’s praised Trump’s efforts to bring manufacturing jobs to the U.S., and appeared alongside the president at the June groundbreaking of a new Foxconn plant in Wisconsin.
\"Foxconn will earn tax credits based on actual investment in job creation. No jobs and investment? No credits,\" Walker says in a new series of ads released Tuesday touting the Foxconn deal.
Despite Walker’s support for the Foxconn deal popularized by Trump, Evers believes the president’s rhetoric on trade is “already negatively impacting” manufacturers and that Walker is doing little to stop it.
In another show of solidarity, Trump signed off on the governor’s plan to lower Obamacare premiums on Sunday.
But critics have called Walker’s plan an election-year move to help him score points on health care after repeatedly trying to dismantle Obamacare during his past two terms.
“Walker has refused to expand Medicaid and authorized a lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act,” T.J. Helmstetter, a Wisconsin Democratic Party senior adviser, told ABC News. “He’s trying to rewrite history, but it’s not working. His numbers are still in the toilet.”
Meanwhile, Walker’s reelection campaign spokesperson Austin Altenburg said the governor is “stepping up when Washington failed by working to lower health care costs.”
Walker’s approach to education also resonates with the Trump administration. Since taking office, he’s gutted collective bargaining rights of public employee unions and given school districts more control over funding.
But he now labels himself the “pro-education” governor, stating on his campaign website that his ‘Act 10’ reforms made funds “more likely to be spent in the classroom.”
“Gov. Walker remains focused on achieving real results for Wisconsin’s families by investing record actual dollars into our classrooms,” Altenburg told ABC News in a statement.
Recently, Walker released a series of ads touting his support for education, including one featuring the rural Three Lakes School District in northern Wisconsin.
“The most ironic, egregious, and hypocritical thing about this ad is that this school district had to ask for $15 million in a referendum to voters just to keep its doors open last fall,” Helmstetter said.
Evers acknowledged Walker’s recent move to raise educational funding, but attributed the increase to Evers's own budget.
“That’s why there was an increase -- because [Walker] adopted my budget. That was a step in the right direction,” Evers said.
“While Scott Walker is delivering real results for hard-working Wisconsin families, Madison Bureaucrat Tony Evers can’t even competently run his own agency,” Wisconsin Republican Party spokesperson Alec Zimmerman told ABC News in a statement.
While Trump hasn’t officially endorsed Walker just yet, Evers hopes voters will see through what appears to be a growing Trump-Walker alliance.
“People make decisions based on what Donald Trump says. But I don’t think Trump’s [potential] endorsement will help Walker at all,” he said.
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