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WISCONSIN GOV. TONY Evers gives a news conference Thursday outside Henderson Elementary School in Madison, Wis. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) Wisconsin Republicans plan to vote next week to kill key parts of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ state budget proposal, including legalizing medical and recreational marijuana, expanding Medicaid to capture $1.6 billion in federal funding and granting collective bargaining rights to public workers.
The move, announced Friday, is no surprise and follows what the GOP-controlled Legislature did two years ago to Evers’ first budget. Evers and Democrats have lobbied for his proposal to be taken up as written, saying it reflects what the people of the state want. Republicans decried it as a liberal wish list.
MADISON - Republicans who control the Legislature s budget-writing committee plan to strip out nearly 400 items from Gov. Tony Evers two-year state spending plan, including his priorities of expanding Medicaid, legalizing marijuana and freezing enrollment in private voucher schools.
The move also will remove solutions Evers called for to long-standing problems in Wisconsin: like the closure of the state s youth prison where staff and teen inmates have been physically abused and the creation of statewide standards for the amount of toxic chemicals allowed in drinking water.
The two-year state budget plan also won t allow the University of Wisconsin System to borrow for operational expenses, restore collective bargaining for public employees, make Juneteenth a state holiday, create a so-called red flag law for gun owners or adopt maps from the governor s redistricting commission.
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