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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 removed 384 of the governor’s budget provisions with a single vote.
The move will reduce the amount of federal money coming into Wisconsin by $2.4 billion and reduce state tax revenue by more than $1 billion compared to what the governor asked for.
By Scott Bauer, Associated Press
May 5, 2021 5:30 PM
MADISON, Wis. (AP) â Republicans who head the Legislatureâs budget committee told Wisconsinâs 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 Eversâ proposals from the budget, including $1 billion in tax increases largely on capital gains and manufacturing income. Republicans also plan to turn away Medicaid expansion, which would mean the state would lose out on $1.6 billion over two years in federal money to replace what the state would pay to offer BadgerCare Plus insurance to about 90,000 more low-income people.
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 governor’s entire two-year spending proposal and instead building off the current budget, which the GOP-controlled Legislature passed two years ago without a single Democratic vote and Evers signed into law.
The Joint Finance Committee will vote to remove nearly 400 of Evers’ proposals. On the issues that remain, Republicans will build the budget using not what Evers wanted but instead on what is in current law.
Tyson Foodsâ expansion in west Tennessee is pitting longtime farmers against one of the nationâs biggest protein suppliers
BEECH BLUFF, TN â Larry Blankenship and his wife, Monica, lived in a trailer on his fatherâs farm for more than 30 years while saving for a home of their own.
They finally did in 2019, moving into a pretty one-story ranch built where their trailer used to be.Â
But their joy was short-lived; the weekend they moved in, a line of backhoes and construction equipment rumbled past their driveway to the property next door, breaking ground on what will soon become a massive chicken farming operation.