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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.