By Eric Stock
BLOOMINGTON – U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) answered questions regarding health care, the federal budget and talk of a possible government shutdown in a town hall meeting Sunday at Illinois Wesleyan University’s Hansen Student Center.
Duckworth said she is willing to consider changes to the Affordable Care Act, but doesn’t like any proposals she has been so far.
“I will work to fix the ACA if there are problems with it,” Duckworth said. “I’m not willing to work to lower what we have but it’s already less than every other developed nation on the face of the Earth.”
Duckworth slammed proposed federal budget cuts from the Trump administration. She told the crowd of several hundred people that shutting down the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which helped uncover the water crisis in Flint, Michigan would be dangerous.
“To come in and say you are going to cut clean water programs from our kids, you are going to move the entire EPA office out of the Midwest region, that’s pretty scary,” Duckworth said. “I need to see what (President Donald Trump) does, but if he tries to fight it, I’ll fight back every step of the way,” Duckworth said.
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