Casey Crabtree

And if you eliminate those people's ability to seek health care, we will see issues for others as well.

One of the supporters of this measure back in 2025, Senator Casey Crabtree, had said that if the federal government reduces its support to 70 percent, the state would be kind of on the hook for about $72 million to reduce.

continue to sustain that Medicaid expansion.

I guess, do you see those budget concerns also reflected in South Dakota?

It was great.

But the main thing that I was concerned about was, uh, our friend at, uh, uh, John Thune's office, Ben Reddy, and Casey Crabtree, and the moderator all said that they were going to, uh, uh, be looking at some federal legislations to streamline the acquisition of property, and boy, did that get my attention.

So I put him, I won't say on the carpet, but I called him out on it.

Well, does that mean that we're going after property rights? And this is what they said.

And what did that mean exactly? Well, they kind of beat around the bush and said, "We're just doing little things here and there.

No, no, we're not gonna touch property rights." But it was a red flag to me, and we're g- we're pursuing that.

We're trying to, uh, follow up with Thune and Casey Crabtree on exactly what that means, and I think they need to call a spade a spade, and if they are going after property rights, let's, let's hear the truth.

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