Madison, WI – Earlier today, Governor Evers signed the 2023-25 state budget into law with 51 partial vetoes following the bill’s passage through both houses of the legislature last week. Senator Duey Stroebel (R – Cedarburg) issued the following statement in response:
“After hearing from thousands of constituents across the state and taking their comments into consideration, the Joint Finance Committee crafted a budget that was made for Wisconsin. Once again, Governor Evers decided to apply a litany of line-item vetoes to the budget bill that was placed on his desk, with the biggest victims being the hardworking taxpayers of Wisconsin.”
“With just a few strokes of his powerful veto pen, Evers gutted legislative Republicans’ $3.5 billion income tax cut and reduced it by 95%. Wisconsin’s middle-class families and small businesses across the state will no longer see meaningful tax relief. To add insult to injury, Evers’ used his Frankenstein veto authority to loosen property tax limitations for K-12 schools through year 2425, which will result in significant increases in the property tax bills of Wisconsin homeowners in the future.”
“Governor Evers has turned a budget that provided historic relief to Wisconsin taxpayers into a budget that instead slaps them in the face by leaving billions of their hard-earned dollars in the state government’s coffers. These are the results of divided government with a Democrat as our governor.”
Senator Stroebel represents the 20th Senate District which includes parts of Ozaukee, Washington, Fond du Lac, Calumet and Sheboygan Counties.
