(The Center Square) – Both President Joe Biden and Wisconsin’s Republican lawmakers used the term Bidenomics when the president was in Milwaukee on Wednesday.
But the tone was much different among Republicans.
“The truth is Bidenomics means reckless government spending, years of cumulative inflation and high interest rates. We can do better,” Sen. Julian Bradley, R-Franklin, said of the president’s visit.
Biden stopped in Milwaukee to speak with the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce about the success of small, Black-owned businesses in and around Milwaukee.
“Decades of discrimination and trickle-down economics left communities like this one behind,” the president told the crowd. “But today, we’re making sure Milwaukee is coming back and all of Milwaukee coming back.”
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin piggy-backed on the president’s theme.
“President Biden flipped the script after four years of Donald Trump’s failed trickle-down economic policies, which abandoned the middle class and gave tax cuts to the wealthy and supersized corporations,” DPW chairman Ben Wikler said in a statement. “Instead, President Biden is investing in the American people and an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy few.”
Wisconsin’s Republican chairman, Brian Schimming, however laid the current economic struggles at the president’s feet.
“From higher costs and lower wages to three consecutive quarters of declining GDP in Wisconsin, Bidenomics have failed working families,” Schimming said. “No amount of campaigning can erase the disastrous impact of the administration’s policies on Wisconsinites.”
Americans For Prosperity Wisconsin’s Megan Novak added more.
“Wisconsin families are still struggling under this ‘Bidenomics’ economy. All Wisconsinites really want for Christmas is lower inflation and affordable energy,” Novak added.
Wednesday’s meeting was Biden’s latest visit to Milwaukee. He was also in the city in August.
The latest Marquette Law School Poll gave the president a slight lead in Wisconsin. The poll put him up, 50-48, over Donald Trump. Though the same poll had Biden trailing both Niki Haley and Ron DeSantis.
Biden won Wisconsin in 2020 by a little less than 21,00 votes.
