Tom Tiffany built his career claiming to stand up for Wisconsin families but voted to cut services and raise costs on Wisconsinites. He voted to kick more than 258,000 Wisconsinites off their health insurance, for massive cuts to Medicare, and to make it harder for his neighbors to buy food. Tiffany cast the deciding vote to protect Trump’s tariffs, which were hurting small businesses and could result in higher food costs for Wisconsinites. Tiffany stood by while Trump laid off Wisconsinites and gutted the Social Security agency. He voted to cut clean energy tax credits that supported Wisconsin jobs and projects. Tiffany also failed farmers and failed to pass year-round E15 in Congress, voting for a council instead of actually helping Wisconsin farmers. Tom Tiffany posed a threat to Wisconsinite women's reproductive freedoms as he repeatedly voted against abortion protections. Despite previously voting against releasing the Epstein files, it took 11 months for Tom Tiffany to ultimately vote for the release of the Epstein files only because Trump approved of the release. Tom Tiffany also supported efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Tom Tiffany, who was "honored" to receive Trump's endorsement, would leave Wisconsin vulnerable to Trump’s attacks.
- In 2025, Tiffany voted for a bill that is estimated to kick 17 million Americans off their health insurance, including nearly 12 million Americans who rely on Medicaid. More than 258,000 Wisconsinites could lose their health insurance as a result of Tiffany’s vote.
- Tom Tiffany called the Affordable Care Act a “problem” despite having more than 313,000 Wisconsinites enrolled in Affordable Care Act Marketplace health insurance plans. By 2034, 148,254 Medicaid recipients in Wisconsin were expected to lose their coverage due to Tiffany’s support for Trump’s tax bill.
- In January 2026, Tiffany voted against extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years, despite the Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner warning that the expired enhanced subsidies would increase premium costs from 30% to 800% under silver plans during the ACA’s 2026 open enrollment period. After Tiffany voted against extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies, critics warned of potential health coverage losses for Wisconsinites. In December 2025, Tiffany voted for Republicans’ health care bill which would weaken protections for people with pre-existing conditions and allowed ACA tax credits to expire. Tiffany did not sign multiple discharge positions aimed at extending premium ACA tax credits. Tiffany’s and Republicans’ inaction over ACA subsidies created a “subsidy cliff” whereby households could lose all eligibility for assistance if they earn even $1 more than a specified income threshold. In 2025, Tiffany claimed the ACA subsidies meant the Affordable Care Act was a “real problem.”
Message: Tom Tiffany voted to rip away health care from hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
- In 2025, Tiffany voted for a bill that the Congressional Budget Office estimated would trigger $500 billion in cuts to Medicare.
Message: Tom Tiffany voted to make massive cuts to health care services seniors rely on.
- From 2025 to 2026, Tom Tiffany voted seven times to protect Trump’s tariffs. In February 2026, Tiffany voted against terminating tariffs against Canada and effectively voted to block votes on legislation terminating Trump's tariffs, even though the Tax Foundation found that Trump's tariffs resulted in a $1,300 tax increase on American households in 2026. In April 2025, Tiffany was the deciding vote to protect the tariffs from being repealed by Congress, dooming Wisconsinites who relied on him to a trade war and rising prices. Tariffs are contributing to higher food prices and are hurting Wisconsin small businesses and families.
- Despite this, Tiffany called Trump’s tariffs “fair trade” even while the U.S. stock market crashed during Trump’s escalating global trade war.
Message: Tom Tiffany was the deciding vote to crush Wisconsin small businesses and ensure Wisconsin will pay more for groceries.
Message: Tom Tiffany voted to make food more expensive for Wisconsinites.
¶ Tiffany stood by while trump attacked social security and fired hard-working Wisconsinites
Message: While Social Security lines grew and Wisconsin workers were laid off, Tom Tiffany did nothing to help them.
- In 2025, Tiffany voted to repeal clean energy tax credits and make them harder to access, threatening clean energy jobs in Wisconsin. Tiffany co-sponsored legislation to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, which would cut clean energy investments.
- Since the beginning of the Trump administration, clean energy projects that were projected to create hundreds of jobs in Wisconsin were cancelled.
- Tiffany had a long anti-environmental record. He had described the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as “radical,” earned a spot on the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters’ “dishonor roll,” and worked to weaken environmental protections and strip local communities of their authority.
Message: Tom Tiffany voted to kill job opportunities for Wisconsin to give tax cuts to billionaires.
¶ Tiffany Failed Wisconsin Farmers And Failed To Pass Year-Round E15 In Congress
- Tom Tiffany failed Wisconsin farmers and failed to include year-round E15 in a federal funding package. In January 2026, Tiffany voted for a federal spending package that created an E15 Rural Domestic Energy Council in lieu of meaningful legislation to enact year-round E15. The National Corn Growers Association called the decision “weak and offensive.” and warned it would neglect 500,000 American corn farmers. The biofuel trade group Growth Energy noted that failure to pass year-round E15 would “lead to farmers missing out on a critical market during the worst farm crisis in 40 years.” The Renewable Fuels Association emphasized the critical need of year-round E15 to support hard-hit farmers and lower gas prices.
Message: Tom Tiffany failed Wisconsin farmers and failed to pass year-round E15 in Congress, voting for a council instead of helping farmers.
- Although Tiffany tried to soften his tone on abortion before announcing his gubernatorial campaign, he was an anti-abortion extremist.
- In Congress, Tiffany repeatedly voted to strip Americans of their reproductive rights. Tiffany voted against codifying abortion protections in federal law. He voted against protecting out-of-state abortion services and protecting interstate movement of FDA-approved abortion drugs. Tiffany also voted against codifying the right to access contraception in federal law.
- Tiffany previously backed a six-week abortion ban without exceptions. Tiffany supported anti-abortion pregnancy centers that dissuaded women from accessing abortion care.
Message: Tom Tiffany threatened the reproductive freedoms of Wisconsinites.
- It took Tiffany 11 months to vote for the release of the Epstein files, only after Trump told House Republicans he approved of the release.
- Tiffany touted his vote for the release of the Epstein files, blaming Democrats for the delay and claiming he supported transparency, but he never signed the discharge petition, never co-sponsored the legislation, and previously voted against the release of the files. In July and September 2025, Tom Tiffany cast the deciding votes against releasing the Epstein files, protecting the accused pedophiles named within them.
Message: Despite previously voting against releasing the Epstein files, Tom Tiffany ultimately voted for the release of the Epstein files only because Trump approved of the release.
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Tiffany posed a threat to democracy due to his support of overturning the 2020 election and voting against the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. The Congressional Integrity Project named Tiffany as a key election denier connected to the January 6th insurrection.
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Tiffany also repeated false claims that mail-in voting increased fraud and said “I don’t believe we should be doing mail-in voting.” Records showed that Tom Tiffany cast absentee ballots more than a dozen times since 2016, even while suggesting there was “rot” in the election system.
Message: Tom Tiffany was a threat to Wisconsin elections.