Wisconsin governor gets creative with veto, increases public school funding for 400 years (www.usatoday.com)

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In signing the state budget, Gov. Tony Evers used his broad partial veto powers to make permanent annual per-pupil increases for public schools.

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[-] parrot-party@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure this was done to freak out the legislation and force them to remove the partial veto

[-] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

They can only remove it via constitutional amendment, so it would have to go to the voters first.

[-] QHC@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

not remove the power of veto, just override this specific exercise of it

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