The state Legislature next week will vote on the $87.5 billion GOP-authored biennial budget, which falls almost $3.7 billion short of Gov. Tony Eversâ original proposal.
Republicans on the budget committee made use of an estimated $4.4 billion surplus to work more than $3 billion in tax cuts into the proposed 2021-23 biennial budget, but also stripped away several of Eversâ high-profile measures like Medicaid expansion and drastically reduced other proposals like the governorâs call for $1.6 billion in K-12 spending.
Republicans, who plan to take up the GOP-authored budget in the Assembly on Tuesday and the Senate on Wednesday, have said they donât anticipate any major changes to the document before the budget is sent to Evers.
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A building under construction along University Ave. on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. (Photo by Bill Martens/WPR)
Republican lawmakers on the state Legislature’s budget committee voted Tuesday evening to approve $1.5 billion of Gov.
Tony Evers’ $2.4 billion plan for state construction projects, including roughly $629 million of the governor’s $1 billion plan for the University of Wisconsin System.
The plan passed the committee on a party-line vote of 11-4, with Republicans voting in favor and Democrats against.
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