Evers vetoes GOP bills directing federal COVID-19 spending
3 years, 8 months ago

Evers vetoes GOP bills directing federal COVID-19 spending

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MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Evers also announced that up to $420 million of that money coming to the state would go toward a grant program targeting small businesses. One of the bills he vetoed would have directed $200 million toward small businesses, an amount Evers said “won’t cut it for me.” “Our Main Streets have been hit hard during this pandemic and we need to do everything we can to make sure they can bounce back,” Evers said in a statement. Other Republican bills Evers vetoed would have directed $1 billion toward cutting property taxes; $500 million for broadband expansion; $75 million for tourism grants; $150 million for nursing homes and assisted-living facilities; $308 million for local roads; $250 million to pay off transportation bonds; and $61 million for lead service line replacements and measures to control water pollution. The $420 million grant program is part of $600 million in federal money Evers has promised to target toward small businesses.

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Wisconsin Senate plans to vote on overriding Evers veto of PFAS funding, other bills
7 months, 1 week ago

Wisconsin Senate plans to vote on overriding Evers veto of PFAS funding, other bills

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Republicans said Monday that the state Senate would vote to override up to 36 of the governor’s vetoes, including a bill to fight PFAS pollution — moves that Democrats derided as desperate election year stunts. Republican state Sen. Howard Marklein, co-chair of the Legislature’s budget committee, said at a news conference that overriding Evers’ vetoes was “about …

Republicans file lawsuit challenging Evers’s partial vetoes to literacy bill
8 months ago

Republicans file lawsuit challenging Evers’s partial vetoes to literacy bill

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Republican legislators have filed a second lawsuit challenging Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ partial veto powers, this time alleging that he improperly struck sections of a bill that set up a plan to spend $50 million on student literacy. The state budget that Evers signed weeks before approving the literacy bill set aside $50 million for the initiatives, …

Evers vetoes a Republican-backed bill targeting PFAS chemicals
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Evers vetoes a Republican-backed bill targeting PFAS chemicals

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a Republican bill Tuesday that would have created grants to fight pollution from “forever chemicals” and took the unusual step of calling the GOP-controlled budget committee into meeting to approve spending $125 million to deal with contamination. Evers said it was “just wrong” that lawmakers have not approved spending the $125 million …

Evers signs Republican-authored bill to expand Wisconsin child care tax credit
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Evers signs Republican-authored bill to expand Wisconsin child care tax credit

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers signed a Republican-authored bill Monday that dramatically expands the state child care tax credit, days after vetoing three other GOP bills that would have delivered $800 million in tax cuts. The bill expands the state child care tax credit to 100% of the claimants’ federal child care tax credit. The legislation included the …

Evers vetoes Republican-backed bills slashing the income tax, cutting taxes on retirees
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Evers vetoes Republican-backed bills slashing the income tax, cutting taxes on retirees

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers on Friday vetoed a nearly $800 million income tax cut passed by Republicans, along with bills that would have increased the income tax credit for married couples and raised the amount of retiree income exempt from the state income tax. Republican Sen. Rachael Cabral-Guevara, the main sponsor of the tax cut for retirees, said …

Evers finds $170M in federal dollars to keep pandemic-era child care subsidy program afloat
1 year, 2 months ago

Evers finds $170M in federal dollars to keep pandemic-era child care subsidy program afloat

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers will use newly discovered federal dollars to keep a pandemic-era child care subsidy program going for another year and a half, his administration announced Monday after Republican legislators refused to devote any more money to the program. Officials with Evers’ administration said Monday they will use $170 million from the Federal Emergency Management …

Evers proposes $3.8 billion in state building projects
1 year, 9 months ago

Evers proposes $3.8 billion in state building projects

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday proposed spending $3.8 billion on building projects in 28 counties around the state, with nearly half directed toward work across the University of Wisconsin System. Two years ago, Republicans approved spending $1.5 billion on building projects out of the $2.4 billion that Evers proposed. Republican Rep. Mark Born, co-chair of the …

Evers pushing for tax cuts, new paid family leave program
1 year, 10 months ago

Evers pushing for tax cuts, new paid family leave program

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers made a plea for bipartisanship with the unveiling of a nearly $104 billion state budget Wednesday that includes a new paid family leave program for most public and private-sector workers, tax cuts for the middle class, a plan to keep the Milwaukee Brewers in their stadium until at least 2043 and higher …

Evers promises a tax cut, compromise to increase funding
1 year, 11 months ago

Evers promises a tax cut, compromise to increase funding

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers announced Tuesday he wants to work with Republicans to divert as much as 20% of the state’s sales tax revenue to help fund local communities, including police and emergency services, while he also promised to cut taxes for the middle class and fight a GOP effort to impose a flat income tax rate. …

Audit calls for transparency on Evers’ COVID relief spending
2 years ago

Audit calls for transparency on Evers’ COVID relief spending

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A nonpartisan audit released Wednesday called on Wisconsin Democratic Gov. The Legislative Audit Bureau said that Evers’ Department of Administration did not provide information it claimed the governor based his decisions on when handing out some $3.7 billion in pandemic aid over the past two years. The Evers administration received $5.7 billion between March 2020 and June …

Evers calls for $2 billion increase in public school funding
2 years, 3 months ago

Evers calls for $2 billion increase in public school funding

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday called for spending nearly $2 billion more on public K-12 schools — a plan derided by Republicans that was released nine weeks before the election and designed to allow school spending to increase without resulting in higher property taxes. This is an opportunity of a lifetime.” Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos dismissed …

Evers directs $90 million to Wisconsin K-12 schools
2 years, 3 months ago

Evers directs $90 million to Wisconsin K-12 schools

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MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers is giving Wisconsin K-12 public schools $90 million more in federal COVID-19 relief money, a move he announced Tuesday just before schools were to open for the fall. A spokeswoman for Republican Tim Michels, who is challenging Evers, accused the former teacher, principal, school administrator and state education secretary of handing out the money …

Evers vetoes Republican bills on schools, COVID-19
2 years, 8 months ago

Evers vetoes Republican bills on schools, COVID-19

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed 28 Republican bills on Friday, including measures to dissolve the Milwaukee school district, make private voucher schools available to everyone regardless of income and prevent certain COVID-19 vaccine mandates. “As long as he’s governor, he will never stop putting the education establishment ahead of kids and their parents.” Evers, a former teacher, …

Evers vetoes more than 40 Republican-backed bills
2 years, 8 months ago

Evers vetoes more than 40 Republican-backed bills

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed more than 40 Republican authored bills Friday including a package overhauling election administration, while he signed a bipartisan measure that provides funding for the construction of a new juvenile prison in Milwaukee. Among the bills Evers vetoed were measures that would have prohibited schools from requiring students to wear masks and required …

Evers calls special session while GOP eyes veto override
3 years, 4 months ago

Evers calls special session while GOP eyes veto override

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers on Monday called the Republican-controlled Legislature into a special session to increase funding for public schools and higher education on the same day the Assembly planned to vote on a veto override of a bill ending a $300 weekly unemployment payment. Evers, in a video message announcing the special session, said as long as …

Evers signs GOP-written state budget with $2B tax cut
3 years, 5 months ago

Evers signs GOP-written state budget with $2B tax cut

Associated Press  

WHITEFISH BAY, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers signed the Republican-written state budget Thursday, enacting a two-year spending plan that includes a $2 billion income tax cut while making 50 largely minor partial vetoes, saying unfinished business still needs to be addressed. Evers, a Democrat who is running for reelection next year, cast it as a bipartisan effort even though the …

Evers says vetoing entire state budget is an option
3 years, 6 months ago

Evers says vetoing entire state budget is an option

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Democratic Gov. Evers called that funding level an “insult to the kids of our state” and said a veto of the entire budget was “on the table.” Evers also said “in some instances it is a reasonable request” for businesses, health care institutions and universities to require proof of vaccination for the COVID-19 virus. This year Evers …

Republicans scrap Evers’ priorities, start writing budget
3 years, 7 months ago

Republicans scrap Evers’ priorities, start writing budget

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MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Legislature’s Republican-led budget committee on Thursday killed hundreds of Democratic Gov. Republicans, along a party line vote, essentially scrapped the Democratic governor’s entire two-year spending proposal and instead began crafting their own budget based off of the current budget, which the GOP-controlled Legislature passed two years ago without a single Democratic vote and which Evers …

Republicans ask Evers to discuss federal stimulus funding
3 years, 7 months ago

Republicans ask Evers to discuss federal stimulus funding

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Republican legislative leaders on Monday called on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to meet with them to discuss his plans for spending $3.2 billion in federal stimulus money coming to the state. Evers last week said that discussing his plans for the spending money with Republicans was not a “top priority.” State law gives the governor the power …

Evers says he’s listening to the people, not GOP lawmakers
3 years, 7 months ago

Evers says he’s listening to the people, not GOP lawmakers

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers said Thursday that he hasn’t met with Republican legislative leaders to discuss his $91 billion state budget proposal because he’s listening to what the people of Wisconsin want and that GOP lawmakers should do the same. “It’s clear from my vantage point the people of Wisconsin need to be heard from,” Evers said outside …

Evers promises details soon on how federal money to be spent
3 years, 7 months ago

Evers promises details soon on how federal money to be spent

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers said Tuesday that he will announce within weeks, without input from Republican lawmakers, how he will spend all of the $3.2 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds coming to Wisconsin. The Republican-controlled Legislature passed bills ordering the money be spent on cutting property taxes, funding local road projects and in other areas, but Evers …

Assembly OKs Republican COVID spending plan; Evers vows veto
3 years, 8 months ago

Assembly OKs Republican COVID spending plan; Evers vows veto

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Assembly Republicans took another step Tuesday toward ripping control of billions of dollars in federal pandemic aid from Democratic Gov. The proposals include plans for a $1 billion property tax cut; $200 million for small businesses; $75 million for tourism grants; $150 million for nursing homes and assisted-living facilities; $308 million for local roads; $250 million to …

Evers vetoes Wisconsin legislative oversight of COVID funds
3 years, 8 months ago

Evers vetoes Wisconsin legislative oversight of COVID funds

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers killed a bill Monday that would have given Republican legislators oversight of Wisconsin’s share of billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds, instead announcing his own plan for distributing the money. The bill would have forced Evers to submit a plan for spending the money to the Legislature’s budget committee and allowed committee …

Evers calls for more education spending, $1 billion tax hike
3 years, 10 months ago

Evers calls for more education spending, $1 billion tax hike

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers called on the Republican-controlled Legislature Tuesday to bolster funding for K-12 and higher education and reform the state’s criminal justice systems, while delivering a state budget with $1 billion in tax increases and liberal policy priorities that GOP leaders promised to quickly kill. Evers pitched his $91 billion two-year state budget to the Legislature …

Evers proposes $100 million for new venture capital fund
3 years, 10 months ago

Evers proposes $100 million for new venture capital fund

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers will propose more than $329 million in new economic development initiatives as part of his state budget proposal on Tuesday, including a new $100 million venture capital fund to help startups and $200 million to assist small businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. Evers is proposing a new $100 million venture capital program that …

Evers renewing call for Medicaid expansion opposed by GOP
3 years, 10 months ago

Evers renewing call for Medicaid expansion opposed by GOP

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers will try again to expand Medicaid coverage in Wisconsin, announcing Wednesday that his state budget proposal will also have more than $150 million in other health initiatives, including bolstering student mental health support, addressing the opioid crisis and increasing telehealth accessibility. Republicans argue that accepting the federal money to expand the state’s BadgerCare Medicaid …

Thompson wants $95.7 million boost for UW in state budget
4 years, 4 months ago

Thompson wants $95.7 million boost for UW in state budget

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MADISON, Wis. — Interim University of Wisconsin System President Tommy Thompson said Tuesday that he’ll ask Gov. Tony Evers to include a nearly $100 million boost for the system in the next state budget and give him permission to borrow up to $1 billion as the coronavirus pandemic bleeds revenue from campuses. Thompson also plans to ask Evers to include …

Evers calls for $250 million in cuts from state agencies
4 years, 5 months ago

Evers calls for $250 million in cuts from state agencies

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers on Wednesday ordered $250 million in cuts to state agencies this year — the latest financial hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic. “The UW System has already borne a disproportionate share of state cuts to date,” said interim UW President Tommy Thompson, a former governor. “As decisions are made about how the $250 million …

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