MADISON, Wis. (WRN) — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos accuses the Evers administration of lying about the budget.
Governor Tony Evers said in a statement that Republicans refused to agree to meaningful investments in education, childcare and the UW System as negotiations broke down.
“That’s a lie. We did that. We’re willing to do it, just not as much as he wanted. When you read that statement, it makes it sound like we were at zero. We were not at zero on any of those topics,” Vos said on WISN’s ‘Up Front’. “We tried to find a way to invest in childcare that actually went to the parents, and to make sure that we weren’t just having to go to a business. We tried to find a way to look at education so that money would actually go back to school districts across the state. It just wasn’t enough for what he wanted.”
Vos says Republicans were willing to give the UW system funding, but less than the governor and system’s $800 million request.