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Evers Hits the Road to Support Budget Surplus Plan
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | February 16, 2022
From WisPolitics.com …Gov. Tony Evers is hitting the road today to pressure lawmakers to approve his $1.7 billion plan to provide tax rebates, boost existing tax credits and pump more money into education.The guv will start in West Bend before heading to Green Bay and La Crosse for a series of news conferences.Republicans have indicated they want to use the state’s projected surplus for a tax package next session, when they hope to be working with a GOP guv.But Evers last night in his State of the State address urged lawmakers to act now. He said allowing the money to sit in Madison won’t help Wisconsinites who need help buying groceries or gas and paying for child care and necessities.“Indifference in this building is getting expensive, folks,” Evers said in the Assembly chamber of the Capitol. “And let me be frank: the people who will bear the burden of inaction are almost certainly not the people sitting in this chamber tonight.”In the GOP response to the guv’s address, Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, accused Evers of weak leadership and sought to tie him to President Biden. He argued Republican lawmakers have saved Wisconsin from Evers’ failures time and again and accused the guv of using his veto pen to hold back the state.“Ask yourself: have Joe Biden or Tony Evers done anything to make your life better? Or has just about everything they’ve touched gotten worse?” LeMahieu said from the Assembly parlor.While Evers is hitting three spots, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes will be on the Stevens Point and Madison campuses of the UW System today. Evers last night said he’ll put $30 million into the System, most of it to fund a tuition freeze through the end of the 2021-23 biennium.See more coverage of last night’s speech here.
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