Mendota facility expansion unites, Medicaid expansion divides as budget process kicks off amid immigrant rights rally
May 6, 2021 3:39 PM Naomi Kowles
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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, and raising minimum wage.
“These ideas should be debated as part of the legislative process,” Joint Finance Committee co-chair and Republican Senator Howard Marklein said in a press conference before the meeting.
Republicans said they were going back to the baseline, using the most recent biennial budget as their blueprint for the rewrite of the more than $90 billion legislation.
Wisconsin COVID cases up 662, deaths up 7: DHS
By FOX6 News Digital Team
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MADISON, Wis. - The number of positive cases of COVID-19 in Wisconsin rose by 662 on Friday, May 7, for a total of 602,265, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
State health officials reported 7 new deaths Friday, with a total of 6,884 deaths in the state.
Of the positive cases, 29,731 have required hospitalization (4.9%), while 586,569 have recovered (97.4%), making for 8,546 active cases (1.4%).
More than 2.8 million have tested negative.
More than 3.4 million have been tested.
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In just a few months, the state has gone from people fighting to get a vaccine to vaccinators pleading for people to step up for one for fear the doses will be wasted. Continuing Coverage: Coronavirus in WisconsinThe state revealed between 1,000 2,000 doses are now being wasted every week.Despite the waste, the state doesn t want to slow down its efforts. But the state said it s telling vaccinators not to let up for fear of spoiling a dose. Absolutely. We do not want to waste a single dose, Hayat pharmacist Lauren Splawn said. Milwaukee s Hayat Pharmacy has administered more than 30,000 vaccine doses, but as demand slows has scaled back to filling just a syringe or two at a time. As clinics get smaller, there are fewer people to take any extra doses once they tap into a new vial, which contains between five and 10 doses. And then our process after that would be to bring it back to any clinic that we have currently going and sometimes we have pharmacies staying open later, and