Sean Duffy Poor Enough to Qualify for Obamacare Subsidies?

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Democrats have been mocking freshman GOP congressman Sean Duffy this week for saying at a recent townhall event in his northern Wisconsin district, “I struggle to meet my bills right now.”

“Struggling” on a congressman’s salary of $174,000? The Wisconsin Democratic party pounced and produced a flyer advertising an April Fools’ Day “food and clothes drive for poor Sean Duffy.” The flyer requested items such as “top hats and monocles,” “french-cuffed shirts,” “oyster spoons,” and “last year’s Bulgari, Givenchy and Versace.”

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