Evers defends administration’s handling of unemployment claims, declines to say if he’ll run again

Gov. Tony Evers insists his administration did “everything humanly possible” to handle the onslaught of unemployment claims that left thousands of Wisconsinites waiting months for their checks. In a year-end interview with WisPolitics.com, Evers also hedged on whether he’ll seek reelection in 2022 and said won’t receive a COVID-19 vaccination while frontline healthcare workers are still waiting for it. Evers said the unemployment backlog was a “horrible situation” and he “feels as badly as anybody else.” But he wasn’t sure if the backlog was unavoidable as claims skyrocketed in the weeks after he issued a stay-at-home order as the COVID-19

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