The incumbent congressional candidate for Wisconsin’s Sixth District says there is still plenty of work he wants to do if reelected.
Glenn Grothman, a Republican from Glenbeulah, is running for his seventh term in Congress and tells Seehafernews.com that he learns more every time he goes to Washington.
But for Rep. Grothman, he says the federal government’s welfare system is still out of control and needs to be reined in.
To him, programs like food stamps are set up to discourage work while other programs could also discourage marriage.
“We’ve got a situation right now, if a single parent, who is taking advantage of benefits, if they marry someone with an income, they easily can lose $25,000 by doing so,” he explained. “As the result, we’ve greatly, over the last 60 years, we’ve greatly decreased the marriage rate in this country. There was a time when I was born when about 4% of the children were born without a father at all. We’re now at a point where that’s over 40%.”
Grothman says he’d like to see U.S. Vice President JD Vance involved since he was raised by a single mother.
Another issue the Glenbeulah Republican has been passionate about is cracking down on illegal immigration.
He says the U.S. was getting hundreds of thousands of new citizens the legal way, and many are doing better than those who are native to the United States.
“We don’t have to apologize for not letting in enough people here,” he stated. “I applaud President Trump for trying to remove people who were here illegally. If you stop and think about it, if we say everybody who comes here and doesn’t break the law can stay, we’d pretty soon get another three or four million people here every year.”
Rep. Grothman was also asked about the War in Iran, which he thinks won’t end until after the November election, because the Democrats would offer Iran a different deal.
He also says Republicans will do their part to bring down gas prices by wanting to expand drilling for oil in Alaska and North Dakota.
He also says the party will support more refineries.
“So in the long run, not just in the next three months, but over the next three or four years, if you want to vote to get more gas out there and have the price of gas be lower, not just this year but three or four years for now, I vote with people like me, who will vote to improve any new refineries,” he said.
Rep. Grothman also said he feels he will help the U.S. be more frugal, especially with the $40 trillion deficit it faces right now compared to someone else.
He’d also like to get legislation to President Trump’s desk for keeping 14 c certificates and making it easier for people to get oral chemotherapy.
Grothman is being challenged mostly by Brad Smith, who is running for the Democrats in the 6th district.
We will have a story with him tomorrow on why he’s running and the issues he would focus on if elected.
