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Medicaid expansion, marijuana legalization and unemployment reform all gone. //end headline wrapper ?> Wisconsin State Capitol. Photo by Mariiana Tzotcheva. The budget Gov. Tony Evers introduced in February shrunk dramatically Thursday after GOP lawmakers removed hundreds of the governor’s proposals and trimmed the plan by billions of dollars. From an expansion of Medicaid, to the legalization of marijuana, to the modernization of Wisconsin’s unemployment system, Republican lawmakers remo...

Joint Finance Committee removes hundreds of provisions from Gov. Tony Evers’s budget Elise Romas © Provided by Madison WMTV Legislators debate Gov. Everss provisions in his budget proposal MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - After a vote, the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) pulled nearly 400 items from Governor Evers’ Budget Thursday. Among the items of high importance: Legislators on the JFC spent more than an hour debating the importance of expanding Badger Care, a state Medicaid prog...

Voces protests removal of immigrant-centered policies from state budget by Republicans The Wisconsin State Capitol was closed to the public for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It only took four days after reopening for Republicans in the Legislature to draw a large group of protesters to the hallway outside the Joint Finance Committee meeting (JFC).  On Wednesday, JFC co-chairs Sen. Howard Marklein (R-Spring Green) and Rep. Mark Born (R-Beaver Dam) released their plan to gut hun...

Tony Evers’ budget proposal — among them, provisions that would have restored access to driver’s licenses and state IDs for immigrants and provided tuition aid for immigrant students at Wisconsin universities. Immigration activists unveil a banner in the Capitol rotunda. Photo by Henry Redman/Wisconsin Examiner. By Thursday morning, protesters organized by Voces de la Frontera, an immigrant rights organization, had descended on the Capitol from across the state to protest the Republicans�...

Mendota facility expansion unites, Medicaid expansion divides as budget process kicks off amid immigrant rights rally May 6, 2021 3:39 PM Naomi Kowles Updated: MADISON, Wis. — Republicans on the state’s budget writing committee removed hundreds of Gov. Ever’s proposals as the first day of a weeks-long budget writing process kicked off Thursday. Voting on party lines, the sixteen-member committee ousted proposals like marijuana legalization, Medicaid expansion, an...

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Associated Press STATE REP. MARK BORN, co-chair of the Legislatures budget committee, defends cutting hundreds of Gov. Tony Evers proposals, calling them unrealistic during a news conference Thursday at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer) MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Legislature’s Republican-led budget committee on Thursday killed hundreds of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ priorities, including ones that would have legalized marijuana and expanded Medicaid, as it ...

By Scott Bauer, Associated Press May 5, 2021 5:30 PM MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who head the Legislature’s budget committee told Wisconsin’s business leaders on Wednesday that they are optimistic a tax cut will be a part of the next two-year spending plan, although they said details on what type and how much were still being discussed. Discussion of a tax cut comes as the budget committee plans on Thursday to cut hundreds of Gov. Tony Evers’ proposals from the ...

Republicans to scrap Evers’ priorities, start writing budget (UPDATE) By: Associated Press May 6, 2021 8:45 am By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hundreds of Gov. Tony Evers’ priorities, including legalizing marijuana and raising $1 billion in taxes, were going to be killed on Thursday by the Legislature’s Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee as it begins the process of writing the next state budget. Republicans are essentially scrapping the Democratic g...

Lawmakers vote to expand Mendota mental health center, a step toward reducing youth population at troubled Lincoln Hills Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A building on the campus of the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center at 301 Troy Drive in Madison. MADISON - The Legislatures budget committee approved a plan Thursday to expand a mental health center in a move that will help bring down the population at the states juvenil...