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Republicans scrap Evers priorities, start writing budget SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 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 at the state Capitol Thursday, May 6, 2021, in Madison, Wis.Scott Bauer/AP MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Legislature’s Republican-led budget committee on Thursday killed hundreds of Democratic Gov. Tony Ever...

As promised, Republicans on the state’s powerful budget committee voted Thursday to strike hundreds of items proposed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers for the next state budget, including Medicaid expansion and marijuana legalization. The move by Republicans to eliminate 384 items from Evers’ spending plan leaves the 2019-21 budget, which was opposed by Democratic lawmakers, but signed by Evers, as a starting point for the 2021-23 biennial budget discussion. “We will be taking our W...

By Naomi Kowles May 6, 2021 | 3:39 PM 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, and raising minimum wage. “These ideas should be debated as part of the legislative process,” Joint Finance Committee co-chair and Republican Senator Howard...

Republicans plan to remove Gov. Tony Evers' budget priorities of expanding Medicaid, legalizing marijuana, and freezing enrollment in private voucher schools, among others.

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State Republicans would need to dig out of an estimated $3.4 billion hole in Wisconsin’s 2021-23 biennial budget if they eliminate Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed tax increases and Medicaid expansion, according the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau. Republicans who control the state’s powerful budget committee plan on Thursday to eliminate from Evers’ budget hundreds of items the committee’s GOP co-chairs have described as “excessive spending, pet projects, tax incre...

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Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican legislative leaders on Monday called on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to meet with them to discuss his plans for spending $3.2 billion in federal stimulus money coming to the state. Evers last week said that discussing his plans for the spending money with Republicans was not a “top priority.” State law gives the governor the power to decide how to spend the money, and Evers has vetoed bills passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature that would...

Wisconsin Examiner Wisconsin State Capitol | Phil Roeder CC BY 2.0 State Sen. Jon Erpenbach (D-West Point) finds it ironic that Republican legislative leaders sent Gov. Tony Evers a letter on Monday inviting him to meet with them to “share your plans for the federal funding as soon as possible.” One year ago, a group of 43 GOP Wisconsin legislators sent Wisconsin members of Congress a letter urging them not to provide financial relief to state governments. Despite their protestatio...

Mark Born wrote, “…we invite you to meet with us to share your plans for the federal funding as soon as possible. We are eager to add your plans to the state budget discussion so that we may dedicate precious state resources to the priorities of all Wisconsinites. As we have said, we need to know where the federal funds are going so that we can direct state funds where we need them.” They added they will begin voting on the state budget on Thursday. “If they were really, truly sincere a...