JFC members debate Medicaid, Evers vetoes in moving $2 million to cover DHS shortfall

The Joint Finance Committee unanimously approved moving $2 million in the Department of Health Services’ budget to cover a shortfall at the state’s two mental health institutes. In the process, Dems slammed Republicans for refusing to accept federal money to expand the Medicaid program and GOP members knocked the guv for vetoing money for a proposed regional center in northern Wisconsin to address...