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Wisconsin lawmakers react to Biden's State of the Union address

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Local lawmakers are responding to Tuesday night’s State of the Union address.

During that address, President Joe Biden took aim at Vladimir Putin, laid out a continued response to tensions in Europe, and addressed domestic issues.

Representative Tom Tiffany was critical of the President's actions leading up to the address regarding Russia's attack on Ukraine.

"You look at our weakness in Afghanistan, the debacle back in August, our foreign policy is in shambles here in America and that is why someone like Vladimir Putin feels emboldened," Tiffany said.

On the other side of the aisle, Senator Tammy Baldwin says Western relations have never been stronger thanks to Biden's leadership.

She adds that it will be critical for the U.S. to keep supporting those affected by the attacks in Ukraine.

"We have heard that well over a half million people have fled Ukraine. They will need food, they will need support," Baldwin said.

Biden also announced he and several countries will release 60 million barrels of oil from world reserves.

In response to that, Representative Ron Kind suggests now is the time to invest more in renewable energy sources.

"To me it speaks to the necessity for us to finally develop a good plan to pivot from fossil fuels and our dependence on these oil producing nations," Kind said.

In the national Republican response to Biden’s address, Iowa governor Kim Reynolds took a critical stance against many aspects of Biden's presidency.

"We're now one year into his presidency and instead of moving America forward, it feels like President Biden and his party have sent us back in time to the late '70s and early '80s when runaway inflation was hammering families, a violent crime wave was crashing our cities and the Soviet army was trying to re-draw the world map," Reynolds said.

Biden will be in Superior on Wednesday to discuss a large infrastructure bill he signed into law late in 2021.

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