Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu indicates that the Legislature’s budget is unlikely to resemble that presented by Governor Evers on Wednesday night. The Democrat Governor said his proposal includes a 10-percent middle class tax cut, invests heavily in infrastructure items such as roads and high-speed internet, and returns 20-percent of state sales tax revenue in the form of shared revenue.
In response, the Republican LeMahieu of Oostburg stated that “Once again, the Republican led Legislature will have to be the adults in the room and build a budget from the base up.” And he said that the budget they write would provide “real tax relief for all Wisconsin families, not the bait and switch the Governor has introduced”, and, he continued that “This version of the budget will appropriately invest in core services like education, health care, infrastructure, police, fire and EMS”
The budget bill will be sent to the Joint Committee on Finance where it will likely be mostly disregarded and reworked before being sent back to the Governor for signing, subject to his revisions via line-item veto.
