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Budget Talks Over, for Now
The second in command in the Wisconsin Assembly says it’s telling that Republicans walked away from huge tax cuts when they walked away from the budget talks with Gov. Tony Evers.
Assembly Majority Leader Tyler August told News Talk 1130 WISN that Evers was willing to accept tax cuts for seniors and others in the state, but only if Republicans agreed to huge spending increases.
“We love tax cuts,” August said. “So people can imagine how unreasonable the spending requests from the governor were to have us say ‘Those are not worth getting a massive tax cut for.'”
August wouldn’t say just how much Gov. Evers wanted to spend, or what he wanted to spend the money on. August did say he hopes the governor will come back to the bargaining table.
August said coming to an agreement on the next state budget with the governor would be a huge win.
“Part of our reason why we wanted to negotiate parts of this budget with the governor was to get those veto assurances that he wouldn’t touch the things that we had agreed upon,” August added.
Without those assurances, August said, the Republican-controlled legislature will try and veto-proof the new spending plan.
But that will be very difficult after the liberal-majority Wisconsin Supreme Court okayed Gov. Evers’ 400-year school funding veto.
“It is in the forefront of our minds that we have a liberal governor who will push the envelope with his veto pen. And a kangaroo court that has told him he can do pretty much whatever he wants,” August explained. “So as we write the actual language of the budget, we are very cognizant of the fact of what happened last time around. And we are very cognizant of the fact that we have a kangaroo court, that is probably the most political court in the United States.”
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