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Dozens of Wisconsin cities holdng 'No Kings' protests against Trump
Wisconsinites in more than 50 towns and cities are expected to take to the streets Saturday, June 14, as part of what organizers say will be the largest nationwide protest yet against President Donald Trump's second-term agenda. More than 100 pro-democracy advocacy groups are working together to organize "No Kings" protests across the country, with actions planned in more than 1,500 cities, according to its website. Spearheading the effort is the national organizing group, 50501 — short for "50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement." The group's local chapter, 50501 Milwaukee, also helped organize an anti-Trump protest in downtown Milwaukee on June 10. That followed local reports of federal arrests and the Trump administration's crackdown against demonstrations in Los Angeles. Hundreds gathered in Cathedral Square Park, before marching to Milwaukee's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices. The protests take their name from the idea that in the United States, we don't have kings — a reference to Trump's own language about himself and his perception of virtually unchecked power. Saturday's protest in Milwaukee will be held in Cathedral Square Park. It coincides with Trump's military parade — expected to cost upwards of $30 million — to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army and his own birthday. Organizers said scheduling the protests for the same day as the parade was deliberate. "President Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday," No Kings organizers wrote. "A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn't staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else." In Madison, a protest is scheduled from 2 to 5 p.m. at Library Mall, 715 State St. In the Milwaukee area, No Kings protests will be held in the following places: Milwaukee: Noon to 2 p.m. in Cathedral Square Park, 520 E. Wells St. This will likely be the largest protest in the greater Milwaukee area. Shorewood: 2 to 3:30 p.m. at Oak Leaf Trail Bridge & Capitol Drive. Greenfield: 10 to 11 a.m., South 76th Street & West Layton Avenue. Brookfield: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 19400 W. Bluemound Rd. Waukesha: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., 321 Wisconsin Ave. This story is developing and will update through the day. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Dozens of Wisconsin cities holdng 'No Kings' protests against Trump
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13-06-2025
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GOP legislators approve $220 million increase for special education, $1.3 billion in tax cuts
Joint Finance Co-Chair Rep. Mark Born (R-Beaver Dam) said at a press conference ahead of the meeting that he would tell advocates who wanted the 60% rate that the state budget has to be 'right-sized' and 'affordable.' (Photo by Baylor Spears/Wisconsin Examiner) After many delays, the Wisconsin Joint Finance Committee met Thursday evening to approve its plan for K-12 education spending that included a 5% increase to special education funding for schools and its $1.3 billion tax plan that targets retirees and middle-income earners. Lawmakers on the powerful budget-writing committee went back and forth for nearly three hours about the plans with Republicans saying they made significant investments in education and would help Wisconsinites while Democrats argued the state should do more for schools. The committee approved a total of about $336 million total in new general purpose revenue for Wisconsin's K-12 schools — only about 10% of Gov. Tony Evers' proposed $3.1 billion in new spending. Special education costs will receive the majority of the allocation with an additional $220 million that will be split between the general special education reimbursement and a subset of high-cost special education services. The special education reimbursement funding includes $77.2 million in the first year of the budget, which will bring the rate at which the state reimburses school districts to an estimated 35%, and $151 million in the second year bringing the rate to an estimated 37.5%. It's well below the $1.13 billion or 60% reimbursement for special education that Evers had proposed and that advocates had said was essential to place school districts back on a sustainable funding path. Education advocates spent the last week lobbying for the additional funding — and warning lawmakers about the financial strain on districts and the resources the students could lose. Ahead of the meeting Thursday, Democrats and a coalition of Wisconsin parents of students with disabilities spoke to the urgent need for additional investment in the state's general special education reimbursement rate. 'Everywhere we've gone in the state of Wisconsin, whether it's rural school districts, urban school districts, whether it's school districts that have passed referendums and those that haven't, they all say the same thing — 60% primary special education funding is absolutely necessary for our schools to succeed,' Rep. Tip McGuire (D-Kenosha) said at the press conference. 'You can see that we have had a cycle of referendum throughout Wisconsin, and that cycle has to end.' The special education reimbursement peaked at 70% in 1973, according to the Wisconsin Policy Forum. After falling to a low of 24.9% in 2015-16, the state's share of special education costs has been incrementally increasing with some fluctuations. The Republican proposal represents, at maximum, about a 5% increase to the current rate by the second year. According to budget papers prepared by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, the investment lawmakers made last session was meant to bring the rate to 33.3%, but because it is a sum certain rate — meaning there was only a set amount of money set aside, regardless of expanding costs — the actual rates have been 32.4% in 2023-24 and an estimated 32.1% for 2024-25. Joint Finance Co-Chair Rep. Mark Born (R-Beaver Dam) said at a press conference ahead of the meeting that he would tell advocates who wanted the 60% rate that the state budget has to be 'right-sized' and 'affordable.' 'The governor's budget has always [had] reckless spending that the state can't afford, and so we're choosing to make key investments and priorities, and these investments today will be some of … the largest investments you'll see in the budget,' Born said. The committee also added $54.5 million to bring the additional reimbursement rate for a small number of high-cost special education services to 50% in the first year of the budget and 90% in the second year. The high-cost special education program provides additional aid when costs exceed $30,000 for a single student in one year. According to DPI, in 2025 only 3% of students with disabilities fell in the high-cost special education category. In 2024-25, the program only received $14.5 million from the state. Evers had proposed the state invest an additional $18.5 million. Republicans on the committee insisted that they were trying to compromise and making a significant investment in schools — noting that education likely will continue being the state's top expenditure in the budget. Meanwhile, Democrats spoke extensively about the need for higher rates of investment, read messages from superintendents and students in their districts and said Republicans were not doing what people asked for. 'High needs special education funding only reaches about 3% of Wisconsin's special education students,' Rep. Deb Andraca said. 'You're getting a couple good talking points, but you're not going to get the kinds of public schools that Wisconsin kids deserve.' During the committee meeting, Sen. Julian Bradley (R-New Berlin) criticized Democrats for saying they would vote against the proposals. He said Democrats would vote against any proposal if it isn't what they want. 'If we all voted no, we would return to base funding, which was good enough by the way for the governor last budget because he signed it,' Bradley said. 'There would be no increases, but instead we've introduced a motion which will increase funding.' McGuire responded by saying he wouldn't vote for a proposal that is 'condemning the state to continuing the cycle of referendum,' which he said Republicans are doing by minimally increasing the special education reimbursement rate and not investing any additional money in general aid. 'Wisconsinites across the state are having to choose between raising their own property taxes' and the schools, McGuire said. The Kenosha School District, which is in McGuire's legislative district, recently failed to pass referendum to help reduce a budget deficit. School leaders had said a significant increase in the special education reimbursement would prevent the district from having to seek a referendum again. 'They had a $19 million budget gap, and if this state went to 60% special education funding, you know roughly where we promised we would be, that would've gone down to $6 million,' McGuire said, '…$13 million of those dollars are our responsibility. That's been our failing, and we should live up to that.' 'What are we arguing about? We're putting more money in,' Sen. Patrick Testin (R-Stevens Point) said.'I would think that when this gets to his desk, Evers would sign this because it is a bigger increase than any of what he proposed while he was state superintendent.' McGuire said the investment in the high-cost special education is also good, but only applies to a small number of schools and students. 'You know, what would benefit all school districts in the state and will benefit all students who need special education? The primary special education reimbursement rate, which you put at 37.5[%], but everyone says should be at 60[%].' McGuire said. 'I don't think this is your intention, but I don't believe that we should be exchanging children who need our assistance for other children who need our assistance. Why can't we just help all of the kids who need our help?' Rep. Tony Kurtz (R-Wonewoc) said that the increase for high-cost special education will have a significant impact on some schools, especially smaller ones, and students, even if it's not many of them. 'To get 90% for them is huge for any of our rural districts. One child, which deserves an education, can break the bank for our small districts,' Kurtz said. 'Is it perfect? No, it's not perfect, but we have to stay within our means.' Committee co-chair Sen. Howard Marklein (R-Spring Green) echoed Kurtz's comments saying that there will be 'a lot of districts that are going to be awful happy about that.' 'They've been worried about sometimes, a student moves into the district, and it's of incredibly high, high needs,' Marklein said. The committee also declined to include additional general aid for school districts. Republicans on the committee said there was already a $325 per pupil increase to districts' revenue limits built into the budget from last session due to Evers' partial veto. The increase gives districts the option to raise property taxes, though it doesn't require them to, and does not include state funding for the increase. Sen. Romaine Quinn (R-Birchwood) told lawmakers not to forget about the increase, saying the 'insulting part about that is that everyone gets it. There are schools that don't need that,' Quinn said. '72% of my districts spend less than [the schools of] my Democratic colleagues on this panel.' School Administrators Alliance Executive Director Dee Pettack, Wisconsin Association of School Boards Executive Director Dan Rossmiller, Southeast Wisconsin School Alliance Executive Director Cathy Olig and Wisconsin Rural Schools Alliance Executive Director Jeff Eide said in a joint letter reacting to the proposal that lawmakers failed to hear the voices school leaders, parents and community and business leaders. 'While the $325 revenue limit authority exists, it is not funded by the state. Instead, it is entirely borne by local property taxpayers. In addition, school districts will not see the requested support in special education,' the leaders stated. 'Because of the lack of state support in these two critical areas, school districts will be left with no choice but to ask their local taxpayers to step up and shoulder the costs locally, regardless of their ability to pay.' The leaders said the state was investing minimally and school districts will continue to struggle to fund mandated primary special education programs. State Superintendent Jill Underly called the Republicans' proposal 'irresponsible' in a statement Friday and said it 'puts politics ahead of kids and disregards educators and public schools when they need support the most.' 'Our public schools desperately need and deserve funding that is flexible, spendable and predictable,' Underly said. 'This budget fails to deliver on all three. Once again, those in power had an opportunity to do right by Wisconsin's children — and once again, they turned their backs on them.' The committee also approved $30 million for the state's choice school programs, $20 million for mental health services in school, $250,000 for robotics league grants, $750,000 for a single school, the Lakeland STAR Academy (a provision that Evers vetoed last session), $100,000 for Special Olympics Wisconsin, $3 million for public library system aid, $500,000 for recovery high schools and $500,000 for Wisconsin Reading Corps. Republican lawmakers also approved tax cuts of about $1.3 billion for the budget Thursday evening after 8 p.m., including changes to the income tax brackets and a cut for retirees in Wisconsin. Born and Marklein said the cuts would help retirees and other Wisconsinites afford to stay in the state. 'These are average, hard-working people in our state that will benefit from our tax cut,' Marklein said. The income tax change will allow more people to qualify for the second tax bracket with a rate of 4.4% by raising the qualifying maximum income to $50,480 for single filers, $67,300 for joint filers and $33,650 for married-separate filers. This will reduce the state's revenues by $323 million in 2025-26 and $320 million in 2026-27. People currently eligible for the second tax bracket include: single filers making between $14,680 and $29,370, joint filers making between $19,580 and $39,150 and married separate filers making between $9,790 and $19,580. Wisconsin Republicans have been seeking another significant tax cut since the last budget cycle when Evers vetoed their proposals. After the rejection, Republicans started to narrow their tax cuts proposals to focus on retirees and a couple of other groups with the hope of getting Evers' approval. When negotiations on this year's budget reached an impasse, Evers had said he was willing to support Republicans' tax goals, but he wanted agreements from them, too. The proposal also includes an exclusion from income taxes for retirees that would reduce the state's revenues by $395 million in 2025-26 and $300 million in 2026-27. 'This isn't a high-income oriented kind of thing,' Marklein said during the meeting. 'It just helps a lot of average people in the state of Wisconsin, so it's very good tax policy.' Democrats appeared unimpressed with the tax proposal. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau told lawmakers that the income tax change would lead to about a maximum impact of $253 annually for married joint filers, $190 annually for single filers and $127 for married separate filers. 'So roughly $5 a week for a married couple,' McGuire said. McGuire said that Democrats just have the perspective that Wisconsin could invest more in the priorities that residents have been expressing. 'We heard from a lot of people about what they need,' McGuire said in reference to school districts. 'We also know that as they've been attempting to get those funds they've had to go to referendums across the state, and… we think that's harming communities and making it more difficult for people. As a perspective, we believe that that's a good place to invest in dollars.' The committee also voted to provide additional funding for the Wisconsin technical colleges, though it is, again, significantly less than what was requested by Evers and by the system. The proposal will provide an additional $13 million to the system. This includes $7 million in general aid for the system of 16 technical colleges, $2 million in aid meant for grants for artificial intelligence, $3 million for grants for textbooks and nearly $30,000 to support the operations of the system. Evers had proposed the state provide the system with $45 million in general aid Sen. LaTonya Johnson (D-Milwaukee) said the differences between Evers' proposals and what Republicans offered were stark. 'We hear my GOP colleagues talk about worker training all the time and this is their opportunity to make sure that our technical colleges have the resources that they need to make sure that we are training an adequate workforce,' Johnson said, noting that the state could be short by 1,000 nurses (many of whom start their education in technical colleges) by 2030. 'I've never had an employer complain about having an educated workforce, not once, but I have heard employers say that Wisconsin lacks the skill sets and educational skills they need. It seems my Republican colleagues are more concerned with starving our institutions of higher education, rather than making sure they have the resources they need.' Testin said the proposal was not a cut and that Republicans were investing in technical colleges. 'We see there's value in our technical colleges because they are working with the business community … getting students through the door quicker with less debt,' Testin said. 'Any conversations that this is a cut is just unrealistic. These are critical investments in the technical system.' SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
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13-06-2025
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Northern lights may be visible across Wisconsin June 13 and 14. Here's when to look
Wisconsinites will have another chance to see the northern lights heading into the June 13 weekend. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a geomagnetic storm watch for June 14, and the lights may be visible throughout the state on June 13 and 14, according to the NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center. Both forecasts have a Kp index of four. For indexes in this range, lights will likely be "brighter and there will be more auroral activity" — if they make an appearance — since they're moving further from the poles, according to the SWPC. The SWPC also has an aurora forecast tool, which provides a short-term forecast. The forecaster shows the lights' location and intensity for the next 30 to 90 minutes. Rain could hinder some Wisconsinites from seeing the lights this weekend, according to forecasts from the National Weather Service. There's a chance of showers on both June 13 and 14 in Green Bay, Appleton and Wausau. But, NWS forecasts indicate the night sky should be relatively clear for some of the state on June 14, including in Milwaukee and Madison. The SWPC says the lights are typically best 'within an hour or two' of midnight, meaning you should keep an eye out between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. You should also head away from city lights and seek high vantage points for a better chance of catching a glimpse. You can find a full list of tips on the SWPC's website. Here's a list of spots across Wisconsin that offer some of the best views of the night sky: Newport State Park, Ellison Bay Driftless Region, Wisconsin Harrington Beach State Park, Belgium Kettle Moraine State Forest, Eagle Kohler-Andrae State Park, Sheboygan Parnell Tower, Plymouth This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Can I see the northern lights in Wisconsin this weekend?
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13-06-2025
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Gov. Evers promotes Pride in CF visit
CHIPPEWA FALLS — Tony Liedl began making soap as a hobby in 2020. 'It started with a basic recipe, and I tweaked it,' he said. Liedl soon was selling at crafting events, and he eventually opened his own business. Ope! It's Soap moved into its current storefront at 116 N. Bridge St. last November. Liedl and his husband, Kevin Brylski, welcomed Gov. Tony Evers to their shop on Thursday, showing off their products while also talking about being being gay business owners. Brylski said they have signs that read 'Hate has no home here,' and the community has been overwhelmingly supportive. 'It's been really incredible,' Brylski said. 'Tony advertised on the door, writing, 'this is a safe space. This is a gay business.'' Liedl added that Chippewa Falls has been a safe community for them. Evers praised the business after finishing the tour. 'It's important for me to continue to see what is happening in our small stores across the state,' Evers said. 'They really care for each other here, and they do great work.' Evers has been visiting LGBTQ+ businesses across the state to celebrate Pride Month. 'They are a major part of our culture,' Evers said. 'I hate to hear negative things about Pride Month. I think it's important for Wisconsinites to stand up and show we are open for business. They are our neighbors, our friends, our spouses.' Liedl and Brylski got married in 2020 in the Dominican Republic. Brylski pointed out to Evers that gay marriage has only been legal nationwide since 2015, and they both admitted they are concerned about any challenges that could outlaw their union. 'It's hard not to think about it,' Liedl told Evers. 'It's worrying. What would happen if I got sick and died, and would our marriage no longer be valid?' Evers assured the couple he would block any attempts to ban gay marriages. Brylski thanked Evers for coming to Chippewa Falls and seeing their shop. 'I'm very thankful for Gov. Evers and politicians like him,' Brylski said. Evers ordered the Rainbow Pride Flag to fly over the East Wing of the State Capitol for the first time in state history in 2019. Since then, the Rainbow Pride Flag has flown over the Capitol each year for the month of June until 2022, when Gov. Evers raised the Progress Pride Flag over the State Capitol for the first time, a press release from his office reads. An iteration of the widely recognized Rainbow Pride Flag, the Progress Pride Flag was created to symbolize the inclusion of marginalized communities within the LGBTQ community. The Progress Pride Flag includes additional stripes forming a chevron pattern that represent LGBTQ individuals of color and the transgender community, as well as those who are living with and who have been lost to HIV/AIDS. When asked if he's heard any feedback from President Donald Trump's administration about the decision to fly the flag, Evers said he's been left alone on this issue so far.
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12-06-2025
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Education advocates push for adequate K-12 funding
A rally goer rolls out a scroll with the names of every school district that has gone to referendum since the last state budget. Photo by Baylor Spears/Wisconsin Examiner. Education advocates are making a push for more investment in public schools from the state as the Republican-led Joint Finance Committee plans to take up portions of the budget related to K-12 schools during its Thursday meeting. The issue has been a top concern for Wisconsinites who came out to budget listening sessions and was one of Gov. Tony Evers' priorities in his budget proposal. Evers proposed that the state spend an additional $3.1 billion on K-12 education. Evers and Republican leaders were negotiating on the spending for education as well as taxes and other parts of the budget until last week when negotiations reached an impasse. Evers has said that Republicans were unwilling to compromise on his funding priorities, including making 'meaningful investments for K-12 schools, to continue Child Care Counts to help lower the cost of child care for working families and to prevent further campus closures and layoffs at our UW System.' He said he was willing to support their tax proposal, which Republicans have said included income and retiree tax cuts. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) said on WISN 12's UpFront that Evers 'lied' about Republicans walking away from the negotiating table. 'We're willing to do it, just not as much as he wanted… When you read that statement, it makes it sound like we were at zero,' Vos said. 'We were not at zero on any of those topics. We tried to find a way to invest in child care that actually went to the parents, and to make sure that we weren't just having to go to a business. We tried to find a way to look at education so that money would actually go back to school districts across the state. It just wasn't enough for what he wanted.' Public education advocates said school districts are in dire need of a significant investment of state dollars, especially for special education. After lobbying for the last week, many are concerned that when Republicans finally announce their proposal it won't be enough. State Superintendent Jill Underly told the Wisconsin Examiner in an interview Wednesday afternoon that she is anticipating that Republicans will put forth more short-term solutions, but she said schools and students can't continue functioning in that way. Underly compared the situation of education funding in Wisconsin to a road trip. 'The gas tank is nearly empty, and you're trying to coast… you're turning the air conditioning off… going at a lower speed limit, just to save a little fuel and the state budget every two years. I kind of look at them as like these exits to gas stations,' Underly said. 'We keep passing up these opportunities to refuel. Schools are running on fumes, and we see the stress that is having an our system — the number of referendums, the anxiety around whether or not we're going to have the referendum or not in our communities. Wisconsin public schools have been underfunded for decades.' The one thing lawmakers must do, Underly said, is increase the special education reimbursement rate to a minimum of 60%, back to the levels of the 1990s. 'It used to be 60% but they haven't been keeping up their promise to public schools,' Underly said. 'They need to raise the special education reimbursement rate. Anything less than 60% is once again failing to meet urgent needs.' The Wisconsin Public Education Network is encouraging advocates to show up at the committee meeting Thursday and continue pushing lawmakers and Evers to invest. Executive Director Heather DuBois Bourenane told the Examiner that she is concerned lawmakers are planning on 'low balling' special education funding, even as she said she has never seen the education community so united in its insistence on one need. 'We're familiar with the way they work in that caucus and in the Joint Finance Committee,' DuBois Bourenane said. 'The pattern of the past has been to go around the state and listen to the concerns that are raised or at least get the appearance of listening, and then reject those concerns and demands and put forward a budget that fails in almost every way to prioritize the priority needs for our communities.' While it's unclear what Republicans will ultimately do, budget papers prepared by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau includes three options when it comes to special education reimbursement rate: the first is to raise the rate to 60% sum sufficient — as Evers has proposed; the second is to leave the rate at 31.5% sum certain by investing an additional $35.8 million and the third is to raise the rate to an estimated 35% by providing an additional $68.6 million in 2023-24 and $86.2 million in 2024-25. The paper also includes options for investing more in the high cost of special education, which provides additional aid to reimburse 90% of the cost of educating students whose special education costs exceed $30,000 in a single year. The School Administrators Alliance (SAA) sent an update to its members on Monday, pointing out what was in the budget papers and saying the committee 'appears poised to focus spending on High-Cost Special Education Aid and the School Levy Tax Credit, rather than significantly raising the primary special education categorical aid.' SAA Executive Director Dee Pettack said in the email that if that's the route lawmakers take, it would 'result in minimal new, spendable resources for classrooms and students.' Public school funding was one of the top priorities mentioned by Wisconsinites at the four budget hearings held by the budget committee across the state in March. 'I just think it's time to say enough is enough,' DuBois Bourenane said. 'We're really urging people to do whatever they can before our lawmakers vote on this budget, to say that we are really going to accept nothing less than a budget that stops this cycle of insufficient state support for priority needs and demand better.' Pettack and leaders of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards, Southeast Wisconsin School Alliance and the Wisconsin Rural Schools Alliance also issued a joint letter Tuesday urging the committee to 'meet this moment with the urgency it requires,' adding that the budget provides the opportunity to allocate resources that will help students achieve. The letter detailed the situation that a low special education reimbursement has placed districts in as they struggle to fund the mandated services and must fill in the gaps with funds from their general budgets. 'The lack of an adequate state reimbursement for mandated special education programs and services negatively affects all other academic programs, including career and technical education, reading interventionists, teachers and counselors, STEM, dual enrollment, music, art and more,' the organizations stated. 'While small increases in special education reimbursement have been achieved in recent state budgets, costs for special education programming and services have grown much faster than those increases, leaving public schools in a stagnant situation.' 'Should we fail in this task, we are not only hurting Wisconsin's youth today but also our chances to compete in tomorrow's economy,' the leaders wrote. If the proposal from Republicans isn't adequate, Underly said Evers doesn't have to sign the budget. Republican lawmakers have expressed confidence that they will put a budget on Evers' desk that he will sign. 'There's that, and then we keep negotiating. We keep things as they are right now. We keep moving forward,' Underly said. 'But our schools and our kids, they can't continue to wait for this… These are short term fixes, I think, that they keep talking about, and we can't continue down this path. We need to fix it so that we're setting ourselves up for success. Everything else is just really short sighted.' WPEN and others want Evers to use his veto power should the proposal not be sufficient. DuBois Bourenane said dozens of organizations have signed on to a letter calling on Evers to reject any budget that doesn't meet the state's needs and priorities. 'What we want them to do is negotiate in good faith and reject any budget that doesn't meet the needs of our kids, and just keep going back to the drawing board until you reach a bipartisan agreement that actually does meet those needs,' DuBois Bourenane said. 'Gov. Evers has the power to break this cycle. He has the power of his veto pen. He has the power of his negotiating authority, and we expect him to use it right and people have got his back.' The budget deadline is June 30. If it is not completed by then, the state continues to operate under the 2023-25 budget. 'Nobody wants [the process] to be drawn out any longer than it is,' DuBois Bourenane said. 'Those are valid concerns. But the fact is we are in a really critical tension point right now, and if any people care even a little bit about this, now is the time that they should be speaking out.' SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
