With first votes Thursday, JFC ready to pull nearly 400 items from Evers’ budget

The Joint Finance Committee will take its first votes on Gov. Tony Evers’ budget Thursday with a plan to strip out his calls to expand Medicaid, legalize marijuana, plus allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver licenses and pay in-state tuition at Wisconsin colleges and universities. Many of the Evers-backed provisions that will be targeted in the first motion would repeal policies Republicans pu...