Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed off on a two-year spending plan Wednesday after dramatically scaling back the size of a Republican income tax cut that would have moved the state closer to a flat rate.
Evers, a Democrat, called the Republican-authored budget “imperfect and incomplete” but stopped short of vetoing the entire plan, which would have required the Legislature to start over. Republicans accused him of using his veto power to enact a liberal agenda.“There are lots of wins here,” Evers said at a signing ceremony surrounded by Democratic lawmakers, local leaders, members of his Cabinet and others.
Vos did not say if Republicans would attempt veto overrides, an effort that is almost certain to fail because they would need Democratic votes in the Assembly to get the two-thirds majority they would need. Evers previously threatened to veto the entire budget over the UW cut. But on Wednesday, he noted that the university can recoup the cut, and he used his partial veto to protect 188 DEI positions at UW that were slated for elimination under the Republican plan.
Democratic state lawmakers were unified in voting against the budget. But most Democratic lawmakers stopped short of calling for Evers to veto the entire plan. Some of the ones who voted against the budget joined Evers when he signed the bill.
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