{"id":17037,"date":"2025-07-23T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17037"},"modified":"2025-07-23T21:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:58:42","slug":"wisconsin-republicans-introduce-bill-to-repeal-evers-400-year-veto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17037","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Republicans Introduce Bill to Repeal Evers\u2019 400-Year Veto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-republicans-introduce-bill-to-repeal-evers-400-year-veto\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-republicans-introduce-bill-to-repeal-evers-400-year-veto\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/evers-maps-commission.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Evers Drew Congressional Maps Eric Wimberger Republican\u2019s Second Tax Cut evers vetoes evers budget\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin state legislators have started circulating a bill to repeal Gov. Tony Evers\u2019 400-year school funding veto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/article_98730bf2-1bfe-11ee-8ce7-13e3a4fd44c2.html\">Evers\u2019 veto in July 2023<\/a>, which turned a temporary $325 per student K-12 funding increase \u2013 originally slated for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years \u2013 into a permanent increase through the year 2425, was recently upheld by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in April, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/article_ba6b366f-dc6e-4395-a947-984ccf78b98f.html\">The Center Square previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the court\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wicourts.gov\/sc\/opinion\/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&amp;seqNo=944606\">ruling<\/a> suggested lawmakers could still draft legislation as a recourse to the governor\u2019s partial veto, and Republicans are seeking to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock 402 years before this veto. It is hard to justify locking in a funding increase for just as long into the future,\u201d the bill\u2019s four co-authors said in a cosponsorship memo circulating at the state Capitol, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/news\/republicans-repeal-evers-400-year-school-funding-veto\">WPR reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would effectively reverse Evers\u2019 400-year veto, eliminating the $325 per pupil adjustment in the school district revenue limit formula beginning with the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne man locked in a tax-raising mechanism that no one voted for and no one approved,\u201d the cosponsorship memo reads. \u201cEvers\u2019 move bypassed both the elected Legislature and the hard-working people who pay the bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, if the bill passes both chambers of the Legislature, it would ironically require Evers to not veto it in order to become law.<\/p>\n<p>While the Senate had voted to override Evers\u2019 original veto in September 2023, the Assembly never held a vote on the override, so the effort failed and the veto stood.<\/p>\n<p>Will Flanders, the research director at Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WillFlandersWI\/status\/1913246627046813884\">previously wrote<\/a>, \u201cThe Governor is not a king, even if the state Supreme Court says he is. Given this increase, the legislature should fight hard against any further increases for public schools that are now set up for a boondoggle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-republicans-introduce-bill-to-repeal-evers-400-year-veto\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin state legislators have started&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17037","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\/17037","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=17037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17039,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17037\/revisions\/17039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}