Yesterday, during the Assembly budget debate, Republicans played politics to secure last-minute votes on the state Biennial Budget Bill. Special interest givebacks like a proposal to make it easier to sell Tesla car parts because Senator Chris Kapenga (R-Delafield) owns a business that sells Tesla car parts, was inserted at the eleventh hour to shore up his vote.
This isn’t what the people voted for when we voted in November for Gov. Evers and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.
On Tuesday, the Assembly passed the GOP version of the budget on a 60-39 vote.
Today, Wednesday, after just 6 hours of debate, the Senate passed the budget 17-16.
Democrats fought for working families, putting forth amendments to restore parts of the People's Budget to give Wisconsinites the budget they deserve.
The budget will now be presented to Gov. Evers who will have 6 days from when he receives the budget to veto the budget in parts or in its entirety.
When Gov. Evers introduced the People’s Budget in February, he did so after months of traveling the state and listening to what Wisconsinites wanted to see in our budget. He put forth a budget that moved Wisconsin forward to create better jobs and a stronger middle class. The Joint Finance Committee then changed the budget, stripping many key provisions that support working families from the budget.
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