Senate puts final touches on GOP budget after rejecting Dem amendments

Senate Republicans today put the finishing touches on the GOP’s $81.7 billion version of the state budget after turning back a series of Dem amendments hoping to make the bill look more like the $83.8 billion plan Gov. Tony Evers originally proposed. Those Dem amendments would have: put in more money than the $500 million boost that Republicans approved for K-12 education; brought about a bigger i...