{"id":3922,"date":"2023-06-29T17:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2023-06-29T18:16:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T18:16:39","slug":"wisconsin-senate-approves-99-billion-2-year-state-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3922","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Senate Approves $99 Billion, 2 Year State Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-senate-okays-99-billion-two-year-state-budget\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-senate-okays-99-billion-two-year-state-budget\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wisconsin-150x150-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Embrace Them Both Unemployment Reforms Wisconsin\u2019s Professional Licensing Bail Reform Amendment wisconsin covid-19\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"wisconsin daycare\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The majority of Wisconsin Republican state senators are on board with the new $99 billion state budget.<\/p>\n<p>Almost every Republican voted for the two-year spending plan Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, our budget invests in core priorities and returns a record amount of money back to the taxpayers,\u201d Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu told lawmakers during the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The budget spends $1 billion more on public schools in Wisconsin, increases pay for state workers, and earmarks hundreds of millions of dollars for road and bridge projects across the state.<\/p>\n<p>The spending plan also includes a $4.4 billion tax cut, but Gov. Tony Evers may veto that out of the new budget.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, was one of two Republicans to vote against the new budget. He said it simply spends too much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2023-25 budget \u2026 will total more than $99 billion in spending (All Funds) for a state of only 5.9 million people.\u00a0 This is a $10.3 billion increase over the current budget (ALL Funds) or about an 11.7% growth in spending,\u201d Nass said. \u201cThe budget submitted by the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) will take this state from a $7 billion structural balance to a $2.5 billion structural deficit at the start of the next budget period on July 1, 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in the State Senate also voted against the budget, because they say it doesn\u2019t spend enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Republicans] voted to turn their backs on families, on parents, and on children. And instead, they voted for a massive tax break for the wealthy. That will ensure that we cannot fund programs like childcare counts in the future,\u201d Sen. Mark Spritzer, D\u2013Beloit, said.<\/p>\n<p>The budget also includes a $32 million cut to the University of Wisconsin aimed at the University of Wisconsin System\u2019s diversity, equity, and inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Evers had threatened to veto the budget because of that cut, but over the weekend softened on that stance because lawmakers are giving the university a chance to spend the money elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The State Assembly next takes up the budget Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the spending plan will head to the governor\u2019s desk for his signature or veto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-senate-okays-99-billion-two-year-state-budget\/ The majority of Wisconsin Republican state senators are on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922","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\/3922","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}