Evers signs budget as guv, lawmakers beat reconciliation bill across finish line
Gov. Tony Evers signs the state budget early July 3, 2025, after lawmakers raced to beat congressional passage of the federal reconciliation bill. Photo by JR Ross.
Gov. Tony Evers early this morning signed a $111.1 billion budget less than an hour after it cleared the full Legislature as he and lawmakers raced to complete the document before Congress signed off on the reconciliation bill.
That’s because a provision in that federal bill would block a plan in the state budget to increase a hospital assessment to generate additional federal revenue that would t...
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