{"id":16842,"date":"2025-06-20T15:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16842"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:00:35","slug":"2026-gop-candidate-josh-schoemann-challenges-evers-budget-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16842","title":{"rendered":"2026 GOP Candidate Josh Schoemann Challenges Evers\u2019 Budget Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/2026-gop-candidate-schoemann-challenges-evers-budget-approach\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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(The Center Square) \u2013 Josh Schoemann, the only Republican currently in the race for governor next year, is criticizing Gov. Tony Evers\u2019 approach to the next state budget by comparing it to his plans in Washington County.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Washington County our budget cycle starts right now, and it\u2019s not due until November. We will propose our budget goals to the County Board in the next couple of months. We will share \u2018This is what we\u2019re thinking.\u2019 It gives them months of time to think those through, give us feedback, and [have] that kind of dialogue,\u201d Schoemann explained in an interview on News Talk 1130 WISN.<\/p>\n

Schoemann said that is far better than the approach Evers is taking again this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not how government is supposed to work,\u201d Schoemann said. \u201cIt\u2019s not the vision of the governor. It\u2019s not the vision of any one person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Evers and the Republican legislative leaders who will write the budget have been involved in on-again, off-again budget talks this month. On Thursday, the governor\u2019s office said those talks were off once again because of gridlock in the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, the Senate needs to decide whether they were elected to govern and get things done or not,\u201d Evers spokesperson Britt Cudaback said in a post on X.<\/p>\n

Schoemann\u2019s criticism of Evers is nothing new. He has long been a critic of the governor and has turned that criticism up since launching his campaign for governor.<\/p>\n

But the recent criticism was also aimed at other Republicans who may jump into the 20206 governor\u2019s race later this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody else in this race on the Republican side, being rumored to this point, has the executive leadership of skills and history to be able to show \u2018This is how I\u2019ve done it before, and here\u2019s how we\u2019ll do it Madison,\u2019\u201d Schoemann said. \u201cThe results in Washington County speak for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Northwoods Congressman Tom Tiffany is also rumored to be looking to get into the Republican race. Before he went to Congress, Tiffany was a Republican lawmaker in Madison.<\/p>\n

Businessman and veteran Bill Berrien is also on the short list of likely GOP candidates for 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/2026-gop-candidate-schoemann-challenges-evers-budget-approach\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Josh Schoemann, the only Republican…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16844,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842\/revisions\/16844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}