The Democratic governor’s $104 billion, two-year budget would dramatically boost school spending, implement a paid family leave program, spend $290 million to keep the Milwaukee Brewers in Wisconsin, freeze enrollment in the state’s private school voucher programs, cut taxes for the middle-class by 10%, expand health-care coverage, legalize marijuana, expand broadband internet access and require lawmakers to adhere to the state’s public records retention laws, among other measures.
Republicans who control the Legislature plan to reject much of the budget and write their own plan, which will likely include much larger tax cuts, a smaller increase in funding for schools an expansion of private school vouchers and programs to help rural areas of the state.
Evers in February introduced his spending plan for the two-year budget cycle that begins on July 1.
The Legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance will hold hearings with representatives from state agencies and advocacy groups on the proposed budget plan. Republican lawmakers control the committee 12-4.
The committee is expected to take up the budget sometime this spring and will likely toss Evers’ proposals and tackle the budget piece by piece. During hours-long sessions over several weeks, it will vote on individual provisions of the budget.
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