US EditionRepublicans strike more than 600 items from Tony Evers' budget
- On Thursday in Madison, Wisconsin Republicans removed over 600 spending proposals from Gov. Tony Evers' state budget plan.
- Republicans controlled the Legislature and objected to Evers' budget, citing reckless spending and tax increases, continuing a pattern from prior budget cycles.
- The removed items included marijuana legalization, a new millionaire tax bracket, child care investments, clean water funding, and election reforms among others.
- The Joint Finance Committee voted 10-3 along party lines to remove 612 of Governor Evers' spending proposals, with Co-chair Rep. Mark Born criticizing the budget as unrealistic and excessively burdened with unnecessary items.
- The vote starts a weeks-long rebuilding of the two-year budget focusing on Republican priorities, while Evers criticized the cuts as harming Wisconsin families and communities.
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Wisconsin Republicans Cut Marijuana Legalization From Governor’s Budget
Republicans in Wisconsin’s legislature cut key provisions from a state budget proposal by Governor Tony Evers (D) on May 8, including plans to legalize and regulate marijuana. The changes came in a Joint Finance Committee hearing, where members removed a long list of items included in the governor’s budget. In addition to cannabis legalization, other deleted items include tax cuts for the middle class, tax increases for millionaires and state su…
Republicans cut over 600 items from governor's budget
Republicans took their first step toward rewriting Wisconsin’s state budget Thursday, eliminating with a single vote more than 600 ideas proposed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. The move by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee has become routine as a matter of practice in Wisconsin, where Republicans have run the Legislature during Evers’ entire tenure as governor. But Thursday’s vote was still dramatic in scope, leaving a budget far differe…
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APG of WisconsinJoint Finance Committee eliminates over 600 items from Evers’ budget proposal
The Joint Finance Committee kicked off its work on the next Wisconsin State Budget Thursday by eliminating over 600 items from Gov. Tony Evers’ sweeping budget proposal, saying they would start from “base” and his budget had too much “irresponsible”…
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