Governor Evers signs Wisconsin budget he brokered in a forced compromise with state Republicans
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers signed a new two-year budget in the early morning hours of July 3 in a race against Congress to ensure the state gets a federal Medicaid match that it would lose under President Trump’s tax and spending cuts package. A budget deal brokered by Governor Evers and Republicans, who control the state Legislature, cleared a key hurdle on July 1 in an extraordinarily rapid succession of events. The deal in the battleground state on a new two-year budget cuts income taxes, called for closing a prison, and increased funding for the Universities of Wisconsin despite...
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