S*#t You Need To Know: Fixing ACT Scores And Healthcare

It's a wake-up call in more ways than one.

Time for some shit you need to know.

Well, in a odd twist of fate, someone who Donald Trump worked hard against who ended up losing an election now has dealt a potential blow to the president.

The Senate advanced legislation Tuesday that seeks to force President Trump to withdraw from the Iran war as a growing number of Republicans

defied the president's direction on a conflict that has spanned well over two months.

Since Trump ordered the attack on Iran at the end of February, Democrats have forced repeated votes on war powers resolutions that would require him either to gain congressional approval or withdraw U.S.

troops.

Republicans have been able to muster the votes to reject those proposals.

However, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy

who made news the other day because Donald Trump primaried him, despite the fact that Cassie had voted with him over 95% of the time, but made a couple of errors.

Well, he got primaried.

He got beat in the primary.

He switched sides.

Boom.

The Senate voted 50 to 47.

to it showed that a small but growing number of Republicans are willing to challenge Trump on the Iran war even though the effort may not advance much further because you know it has to go to the house and that's where Mike whatever you say boss Johnson is ready to either just

not bring a vote or vote against it.

Three Republicans were absent on Tuesday.

Their votes would be enough to defeat the measure if they maintained their stance.

The House is expected to vote on similar war powers resolution today.

Democrats are bullish about their chances of passing it.

Another war powers resolution barely failed in the House last week.

The vote ended in a tie.

So we will see.

I

just wish that the Republicans would have more of a backbone standing up to this administration when it

it's still mattered.

And this vote does matter, don't get me wrong.

Bill Cassidy, however, has lost his primary.

He is not gonna be able to run.

He has nothing to lose if the president mean tweets him.

Well, here's the thing.

And your point is, this is why I say this because I was thinking this.

He's doing it in, he did it to Massey.

Massey got bounced.

He's

trying to make a move in Texas to get the...

I want to say coin, but that's not it.

Whoever that,

yeah, he's primary, he's

primary in another

Republican.

He adores Ken Paxton, yes, is what he did.

So

now, all these people who still have time left in their term,

have no reason to do it.

And yes, it would have been nice had they done it at the beginning, but there's time to undo or block some things if these people that he's flipping, because we know the only reason he's flipping is because he knows that if he loses the House and the Senate in November, he is done.

Yeah.

Thank goodness.

It's going to be interesting to see what this

Congress does over the next few months as we progress into the midterms.

There's a lot of time and they can gerrymander all they want, but that's not going to take effect till next year too.

Yes, and especially if you look at polling that just came out earlier this week, it is not good for this Republican party.

The president's approval rating has dropped even lower than it was just a month ago, which I wasn't sure that was possible, but it is.

Well, even Texas Republicans

Republicans are like, oh, this was a big mistake because now Paxton has a lot of issues and Talerico is really looking like the more sensible Republican kind

of person.

Yeah, there used to be those in Texas.

So hopefully, hopefully, hopefully Texans do the right thing this time.

I can, I can wish, I can wish we've seen it in the past.

In other stuff you need to know this morning, a recent state law requiring those who circulate nominating petitions for state elections are eligible to vote in Wisconsin will remain in place at least for this upcoming fall election, according to a federal judge and the current ruling.

Conservative

These groups, Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and Americans for Citizen Voting, sued the Wisconsin Elections Commission in late April, two weeks into the current circulation period, seeking to halt enforcement of the new law.

This lawsuit, originally filed in Waukesha County Circuit Court, but moved to federal court earlier this month, asked the judge to declare the new law unconstitutional.

Last week, U.S.

District Judge, Lynn Edelman, denied the group's motion to temporarily set the rule.

side.

The judge is not set to take the case up again until mid June after the June 1st deadline to submit nominating petitions.

Timing is everything.

Yeah, well, we'll see.

We'll see what happens.

I, you know, I understand why they're why they're trying to do this.

I don't know if it's that big a deal.

You can get people on the ballot.

That doesn't mean anything.

That doesn't mean they're going to win.

It doesn't mean they have a chance.

And if, you know, again, if I'm

If I'm in a anywhere in Wisconsin and I'm running for something and my family wants to come in from out of state to help me go collect signatures, that's one thing.

If they're an unrelated pack, that's another thing.

But in the end, just because you're on the ballot doesn't really mean

anything.

Yeah.

Agreed.

Agreed.

100%.

Well, now it's time for the big and this story, feel free to jump in.

Do you judge people?

who still won't accept the results of the 2020 election.

I do, I do, and I do it harshly.

And the reason we bring this up, Tom Tiffany is that one of those people.

He's a candidate for governor.

You know that is Republican.

He said Monday that FBI agents should continue to question election officials over Wisconsin's 2020 election.

He would not answer whether Joe Biden won that election.

And he said election workers should be charged if federal authorities deem it necessary.

Not that they did something.

but that they just need it necessary.

This is your Republican presumed Republican candidate for governor.

Now, he made his comments while taking questions from reporters at a campaign event in Elm Grove less than two weeks after FBI investigators interviewed a top state election administrator about the 2020 election.

And yes, you may be thinking, Brian, is this an old story that you've brought back?

No, this is brand new.

2026 talking about the 2020 election.

So agents sought in recent days to question Milwaukee election workers who helped administer the contest.

Tiffany said, whatever they're searching for, the investigation should be allowed to continue.

And let's find out what happened here.

If there's improprieties that happens when then there should be charges filed.

If not, then you let the investigation cease.

Tom.

Hello.

That's a obvious calling.

They're at the door.

The facts are at the door, Tom.

Pretty sure.

There's been several investigations into the 2020 election.

And all of those allegations have been deemed not credible and that there was nothing wrong with the results of the 2020 election.

And it's been

nationwide.

It's been nationwide.

It's been here in Wisconsin.

But who am I to argue with the Republican gubernatorial candidate?

You are not because President Trump, who endorsed Tom Tiffany and continues to push the false claim that he won Wisconsin's 2020 election.

He suggests widespread fraud.

And we know the FBI also has, in recent months, launched probes in other, as JB just said, key battleground states.

Wisconsin's 2020 election outcome has been confirmed and vetted by lawsuits, a state audit.

A study by the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, and we've dealt with them, you know, they're not going to let it go.

If they thought there was something, they'd go after it more and more.

They even said no.

And then through a taxpayer-funded investigation launched by Republican lawmakers, it turned up no evidence of wrongdoing.

And by the way, Gabelman lost his license for three years because of that investigation.

Just weird.

Because he couldn't find anything.

Just saying.

Well,

Joe Biden beat Trump at Wisconsin by about 21,000 votes.

Tiffany voted in Congress in 2021 to reject Biden's presidential victories in Arizona and Pennsylvania.

At that time, he told the Journal Sentinel that he would have voted to overturn Biden's victory in Wisconsin as well.

Had it been subject to a vote, he also supported a lawsuit brought by the state of Texas in late 2020 to overturn election results in Wisconsin and three other battleground states backed by Biden, Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Weird that it was bought by Texas.

And Texas not in that lawsuit.

Why?

Well, because Trump won Texas.

Right.

And yeah, so this is the Republican government.

And we have invited Tom Tiffany on this program numerous times.

He is welcome to come on here and defend his record and defend his statements.

Tom Tiffany has declined to this point.

Here's the thing.

Tiffany in the past, this is not new language for Tom Tiffany.

Now, to be fair, he hasn't consistently used direct language claiming that the election was illegitimate, but

Since 2020, he has consistently raised doubts.

And if you're a Wisconsin voter, if you're somebody who is an independent, if you are on the fence, if you don't know who you are going to vote for, because I get it, the election is still a long way away and the Democrats still have several in the primary.

These are things that you have to consistently keep in the back of your mind.

Because here's the thing that I keep thinking, right?

If Tom Tiffany has been willing for

six long years to question the legitimacy of the 2020 election.

If he is not elected governor, hypothetically, in the state of Wisconsin in November, because nobody knows what's going to happen, will he accept the results of that election here at this state level?

All of this is laying another groundwork for a problem in November.

This time it's not going to be the presidential election.

It's going to be House and Congress seats and any place where a Republican is upset by a Democrat or a Democrat wins outright and they haven't had a chance to gerrymander those districts out of existence yet They are going to just

keep it in court for as long as possible because if they delay delay then Mike Johnson is going to be able to say well I can't swear in these new members of Congress because you know we don't know the election isn't really over yet and the longer they can

postpone swearing in new members

of

Congress, the longer this corrupt administration is allowed to keep going and doing what they want.

It is all about eroding trust in the process.

And I know if you listen to this program, I say it all the time, but that's essentially what they're trying to do.

And this isn't a conversation about re-litigating 2020.

This is about setting expectations for 2026, 2028, and beyond.

At the end of the day, voters

aren't just choosing policies.

We are essentially choosing whether we trust the people running to actually respect the outcome, whether they win or lose.

The current administration wants to break down that system.

They want this to feel rigged.

They want people to question why they're going to the polls, and they want people to not cast those votes.

It's the whole reason they want to redraw districts, why they want to gerrymander, because when people vote, they tend to not win elections.

Not in every state, but in a lot of places.

They don't plan on leaving.

This president doesn't plan on leaving, which is why he's trying to build a bunker ballroom military hospital.

So he never has to leave.

He doesn't plan on leaving.

And he knows if the Republicans lose in the midterms, he will be out.

This time, this time, I do believe that if the Democrats take control, not only will they impeach him, but he will be convicted, he will be removed from office.

And a lot of this madness will stop.

So they are fighting tooth and nail to make sure that does not happen.

And it's up to us.

I know we're going

to keep saying it.

Voters still decide.

We still decide as voters.

That's right.

He gots to vote.

It's a wake-up call in more ways than one.

Time for some shit you need to know.

If you have high school students this is big news.

High school students in Wisconsin and nationwide may see changes in their ACT scores.

after the testing company discovered a scoring issue with this spring's exam.

On May 13th, the company noticed school district test coordinators that it would remove or reissue scores for students who took the online ACT during school day testing this spring.

Oh, I didn't even know that was a thing.

Remember when we used to have to go on a Saturday?

Saturday, yeah.

Get up really early and go sit and take this test.

Boo.

Students composite and section scores will either remain the same or go up slightly based on their individual performance according to the email.

Students attending Milwaukee Public Schools, the state's largest school district, may be among those affected, according to MPS spokesperson Anthony Tagliavia.

The district notified students and families of the issue in an email on the 18th.

ACT said it removed effective student scores from their MyACT profiles and would update them by June 2nd.

ACT will also resend new scores to any colleges, universities, and scholarship organizations the students select.

revised scores will not be lower than what was previously released.

What did that suck?

Oh my God.

Oh, I got a 30.

Oh, I got a 12.

What?

That means I didn't even fill my name out correctly.

That's right, Einstein.

Sit

down.

Parker, did you have to do Saturday ACTs or did they do a day of school?

We did it as a day of school, yeah.

Really?

Oh

my gosh,

that's fascinating.

How soft you children are.

Getting up on Saturday.

It

sucks still.

But not as much as a Saturday.

Oh, I remember.

Like we lived, you know, a half hour, 45 minutes away from our testing location.

So we all got up at this, you know, met.

We carpooled in.

We ate lunch together like a herd of cats.

We sat in a room being herded, taking our test.

And then, you know, we

ushered

ourselves back home, took an entire day to do

so.

An entire day.

And then leading up to that day was so stressful.

I remember

we had

to go to...

We went to the local high school, and you're in this building, you don't know, and you're sweating, and it's early in the morning, and it's like, oh, God, you know.

And you know your entire

future hinges on this?

Yes.

You rest on this test, and maybe you're not a good test taker.

Oh, it was awful.

Oh, the whole thing was awful.

The whole

thing was awful.

OK, we're old.

And yes, I remember what I got.

We're

old.

So is it electronic now, or do you still need to bring your number two

pencils?

It was still on pencils, I think, from

me.

OK.

Fairly, sir.

Where's pencils anymore?

No high

school kid has pencils anymore.

They

don't.

I don't even know what pencils are, how to sharpen them.

This does it right.

I know, because there's no point on it.

I kind of think that they're just jamming it in a screen.

It's not

a, no, it's not a touch.

I think it might have been just...

the people who were taking the ACT went to school that day.

I'm

not positive, but I think

so.

Before we get into the second story, it's not gonna surprise any of you to know that I love school supplies.

Love

that this

is your time of year where all the school supplies comes.

The aisles keep shrinking though, because there is more electronics, so the aisles of school supplies just keep shrinking in it.

It breaks my heart because I love markers, crayons, and highlighters, but at any rate.

It always gave new hope.

Every school year when you got those school supplies was like, here we go.

Yes.

This is it.

This is the year.

I love school supply shopping.

Then by the end of the year, you have like three Nub Koreans left.

I know,

I know.

All

right, yes, we should keep moving.

We do have more stuff you need to know this morning.

Tom Tiffany back in the news, of course, Republican candidate for governor made the Green Bay Metro his first campaign stop following the state Republican Party's annual convention over the weekend.

He spoke for about a half hour alongside former Republican governor Scott Walker, while about 20 protesters chanted outside.

Tiffany outlined his vision of a conservative governorship for Wisconsin, stressing lower taxes, an audit of state agencies, and a reevaluation of the state's education system.

Throughout the event, Tiffany and Walker contrasted the platform as opposite to that of Minnesota, Illinois, and Democrats broadly, whom Walker repeatedly called radicals.

Tiffany continued criticism of Evers and Republican leaders' deal to use $1.8 billion of the state's projected 2.5 million.

million surplus toward tax rebate checks, eliminating taxes on tips and overtime and education spending.

Responding to a question from the Green Bay Presquizette, Tiffany said his first act as governor on the first day would be to undo a partial veto by evers.

He also said his second action would be to audit state agencies to quote, root out the fraud and waste.

Does that sound familiar?

He repeatedly referenced Medicaid fraud in Minnesota that is under.

federal investigation.

He also touted his support of the SAVE Act, that Republican-backed measure that must still pass the U.S.

Senate requiring voters to give proof of citizenship upon registration.

If you notice, a lot of his first day plans align very much to what Donald Trump's first day plans as president were going to be.

And why do I think the results will be exactly the same?

Well, because most of these things have already been audited and most of these things have found no fraud, no waste, no abuse.

And again, not saying that there shouldn't be some reform in government, but it turns out that there's not as much as the Republican Party would like us to believe.

And what I didn't, what I left out of the story, he said his third act would be to steal candy from a child.

So I didn't put that in, but now I

just.

I mean.

I just love that he's touring with Scott Walker too, right?

Yeah, let's go.

The axis of evil.

All right, it's time for this hour's big story.

The Republican-led House and Senate did not extend ACA subsidies that expired this year, prompting an increase in premiums.

So guess what?

Healthcare is going to get more and more expensive.

The affordability crisis, which we know is a made-up term, according to the president.

But that

That crisis, for many people who have health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, came into sharper focus yesterday with a new analysis projecting that higher premiums will cause millions more people to lose their health insurance.

Another sign of economic distress, average deductibles for policy holders are now the highest ever, a result of people switching to the exchange's cheapest bronze plans in response to premium hikes.

According to a report released Tuesday by KFF.

a health policy research organization, the greater migration to bronze plans, the average deductible.

For ACA recipients rose more than $1,000 a year to $3,786 according to this analysis.

That's just your deductible.

Yeah.

And I don't even know what kind of care you get if you drop down to the bronze care because you know anything else.

If you go from platinum to gold to silver to bronze, you lose services.

I did a little digging into this, by the

way, on

Wisconsin numbers because I wanted to see how it's affecting Wisconsin.

By the way, health care in this state consistently ranks as one of the top issues that folks in Wisconsin care about regardless of party.

It transcends.

So in the past year,

Here in Wisconsin, between 20,000 and 60,000 Wisconsinites have either already lost or are at risk of losing their Affordable Care Act coverage.

We're talking about your neighbors, folks.

It

could be.

Enrollment in Wisconsin dropped from over 313,000 people in 2025 to about 289,000 people in 2026.

The big reason?

because you just laid it out nicely, Brian, the cost.

When enhanced tax credits expired at the end of 2025, the premiums didn't just go up, they obviously spiked.

You just read the numbers.

And in some cases, for some folks,

they doubled.

And when that happens, we have to all make tough choices, right?

We're trying to figure out how to afford our property taxes, our groceries, our electricity.

More than 20,000

people,

more than 20,000 people in this state alone dropped coverage entirely because they couldn't afford it anymore.

And on top of that,

About 24,000 residents in 11 Wisconsin counties had to scramble for new plans after insurers left the marketplace.

That's where we're at.

It's, again, we've been, and I hate to gloat, but I love to gloat.

The people who, well, we gotta get rid of Obamacare, but we're gonna keep my Affordable Care Act.

Hey, guess what?

Same thing.

Sorry, same thing.

And the fact that the person that leads that party and campaigned on a fact that he was going to fix this rotted system in 2016, he supposedly had a better plan.

That never came to fruition.

When he was debating for this term, he said he had a concept of a plan.

He doesn't care about health care because he gets it.

Congress doesn't care about health care because they get it.

You've got some people fighting for it, but the truth of the matter is you and I are at the whim of if you're lucky enough to have an employer that has insurance, but even those premiums go up because they're paying into the same.

Cool that everybody else is so I know like we're very fortunate.

We have insurance through my wife's firm Well, we we're paying more our deductibles went up

a

little bit and I can't imagine if I was out on the private market like people are having to do and they're seeing they're seeing these prices go up and up and There's when you're like when I was Parker's age you gamble a little bit if you didn't have insurance, of course

Then you start then you start having you get to the part where even if you don't have kids you're at that age We're like we have something happens.

I'm gonna be bankrupt right and if I get sick I'm really really in trouble so you start looking for insurance and this is We're in a horrible fix and nobody is stepping up to fix it

When tens of thousands of people are being priced out of coverage, I mean, the system's not working for anybody.

I mean,

we even look back, Max is now 22.

He's our older of the two boys.

Max is on the autism spectrum, very high functioning.

He has Asperger's.

When he was very, very young and first diagnosed around three or four.

So this is years ago, before we even had even more issues with insurance.

It was already an issue.

He had to have a lot of occupational therapy.

And we chose to do that in a private firm because we wanted to get started right away and because we knew we were probably going to homeschool at least for the time being.

At the time, our insurance gave us 10 appointments for an entire year.

10

appointments for a

kid who desperately needed to learn how to deal with all of the things in life.

Sounds, noise, taste, smell, all of it, right?

We used up those 10 appointments in the first two weeks, which meant after those first two weeks of therapy, we were paying completely out of pocket.

I will admit this on the air.

Four years ago, we finally paid off his medical bills.

The kid is 22 years old because of the amount of debt that we went into to make sure that our child had what he needed to be able to function in this world and be the best version of himself that he could be.

We went into that much medical debt.

And if it was that bad then, with what we're talking about now, how do people survive?

You are literally making life and choice decisions at that point.

People are growing bankrupt because of medical bills It is it's time to fix this and unfortunately We don't live in a time where we have people who care enough right to try to fix it, but Still we endure