{"id":3950,"date":"2023-06-30T12:57:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2023-06-30T13:01:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T13:01:49","slug":"legislature-sends-budget-to-evers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3950","title":{"rendered":"Legislature Sends Budget to Evers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/06\/30\/legislature-sends-budget-to-evers\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=legislature-sends-budget-to-evers\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/06\/30\/legislature-sends-budget-to-evers\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=legislature-sends-budget-to-evers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/06\/29\/evers-to-take-action-on-state-budget-that-includes-tax-cuts-education-spending-boost-following-assem\/70368490007\/\">Meh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">MADISON \u2013 Assembly lawmakers late Thursday sent to Gov. Tony Evers a $99 billion two-year spending plan that leverages a historic surplus to cut income taxes by more than $3 billion for Wisconsin residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The action now shifts to Evers, and the Democratic governor has promised to deploy his powerful veto authority over aspects of the Republican-authored spending plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Assembly lawmakers voted 63-34 along party lines to pass the 2023-25 state budget, which includes a $1 billion increase in state and local funding for K-12 schools, a $32 million cut to diversity programs at the University of Wisconsin System, higher fees for electric vehicle owners, and pay boosts for state employees and correctional officers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/06\/30\/legislature-sends-budget-to-evers\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=legislature-sends-budget-to-evers Meh. MADISON \u2013 Assembly lawmakers late Thursday sent to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}