Name: Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is delivering his budget address
Uploaded: 2025-02-18T00:00:00+00:00
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Description: Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is delivering his budget address

“Our budget includes my comprehensive plan to lower costs from child care to medication, to help working families, seniors and students.”

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“I'm also providing nearly $2 billion in tax relief, including eliminating income tax on tips.”

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“My plan invests in public education at every level while holding the line on property taxes.”

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“I'm announcing plans to stop price gouging on prescriptions and crackdown on insurance companies for denying Wisconsinites medical bill…”

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“We're going to keep fixing the darn roads and infrastructure, building more affordable housing, keeping our kids, families and communities…”

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“The budget I am proposing balances our priorities of investing in our kids and needs that have been long neglected, while providing real and…”

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“Agriculture is a 116 billion dollar industry.”

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“Under my administration, Wisconsin is on its way to becoming a top 10 state for ag exports.”

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“My plan creates a new ag economist position in state government that will help farmers navigate market disruptions and volatility caused by…”

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“We just announced 55 new projects across 36 counties to improve rural roads and infrastructure through our Agricultural Roads Improvement…”

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“We're going to invest $50 million to continue that successful program to help ensure our farmers, our producers and ag and forestry…”

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“I'm excited to be introducing the most pro kid budget in state's history.”

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“Every Wisconsinite should have access to clean and safe drinking water, no matter where they live.”

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“I approved an emergency rule strengthening our lead standards statewide and announced new investments to support kids and families when they…”

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“I'm asking bipartisan support to invest over $300 million to help get lead out of our service lines, our bubblers, our schools, our homes…”

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“PFAS exposure at certain levels can mean developmental delays in kids, increased cholesterol levels, reduced immunity, response to…”

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“Addressing PFAS and other contaminants grows harder and more expensive each day of delay.”

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“We're working to strengthen Wisconsin's groundwater standards for PFAS.”

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“I'm asking the legislature to support an investment of over $145 million to fight PFAS contamination statewide and provide emergency…”

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“Every Wisconsin kid should have access to a high quality public education from early childhood to our K through 12 schools to our higher…”

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“I'm urging the legislature to do what's best for our kids by approving significant investments in public education at every level in…”

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“I am proposing nearly $60 million to support our technical colleges and their good work.”

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“UW Parkside has increased graduation rates by about 20%.”

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“UW Stevens Point is training more than 1200 future educators who are supporting classrooms in over 200 different school districts across…”

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“UW River Falls is expanding Hand on learning activities to support our dairy industry right here in America's dairyland.”

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“UW Madison is leading national efforts to to study Alzheimer's, to help improve treatment and find a cure for the more than 110,000…”

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“UW Stout's Manufacturing Outreach center has worked on more than 470 projects in Wisconsin with Wisconsin manufacturers across 33 of our 72…”

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“UW is facing campus closures and program cuts.”

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“Students are facing tuition increases and faculty and staff are facing layoffs.”

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“New federal efforts to cut higher education funding [are occurring].”

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“I'm asking the legislature to approve the largest two-year increase for our UW system in state's history.”

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“My pro kid budget makes significant investments in public education at every level, including our K12 schools.”

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“This legislature and I approved $50 million in the last budget that could be improving our kids reading and literacy.”

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“In 2025, the year of the Kid, I'll be asking the Legislature to approve $80 million to invest in literacy coaches, tutoring and other key…”

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“My pro kid budget makes the largest investment in Wisconsin kids in any budget by any governor in state's history.”

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“I fought to secure the first special education aid increase in over a decade and the largest increase in funding for special education ever…”

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“I'm proposing the highest ever amount of state education aid funding and we're going to guarantee the state reimburses special education…”

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“In 2024 we saw a historic number of school referendums on the ballot and 169 of those referendum passed.”

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“Nearly 400 referendums passed in the last four years.”

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“Our pro kid budget will do what's best for our kids by providing more than $3.15 billion.”

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“We're going to make those investments while holding the line on property taxes to ensure the average homeowner will not see a property tax…”

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“My budget would create a new incentive for local governments to freeze their local property taxes.”

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“Trump's 25% tariff tax will not only hurt our families and our farmers and ag industries and our economy, but it will also cause prices to…”

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“Some estimates indicated this could raise costs on the average American by about $1,200 a year.”

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“I am proposing to eliminate the sales tax on electricity and gas for Wisconsin homes which will save Wisconsinites about $100 million in out…”

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“Putting two young kids in childcare in Wisconsin costs more than the average rent or Mortgage in 2023.”

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“My plan will provide nearly $2 billion in tax relief through efforts to lower property taxes, eliminate the sales tax on several everyday…”

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“I'm proposing to nearly double Wisconsin's personal income tax exemption.”

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“Wisconsinites will pay no income taxes on the first $1,200 they earn, period.”

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“My new property tax and rent rebate will provide nearly $150 million in tax relief for about 165,000 homeowners and renters across our…”

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“Expanding Badger Care would save Wisconsin taxpayers nearly $2 billion over the next two years.”

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“Expanding Badger Care would expand quality, affordable health care coverage for about 100,000 Wisconsinites.”

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“We saved Wisconsinites a projected $70 million over the next two years alone by eliminating the sales tax on over-the-counter medication.”

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“Wisconsin and Arkansas are the only two states in America that haven't extended postpartum coverage for pregnant women on Badger Care up to…”

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“I want to make Wisconsin the first state in America to start auditing insurance companies over denying health care claims.”

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“We'd create a new office to help Wisconsinites whose health insurance claims are denied for the first time in state's history.”

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“Health insurance companies try to use these so called priorities, authorizations that help their bottom line and cut costs.”

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“My plan would create new standards to expand health care services procedures that insurance companies are required to cover.”

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“We're going to ban health insurance companies from requiring pre approval for inpatient mental health services.”

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“My plan is simple. Would enable creating statewide standards for maximum wait times for school scheduling appointments.”

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“I'm proposing to require health insurance companies to make sure the services they cover are available within a minimum time and distance of…”

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“This plan would require health providers to give Wisconsinites notice of unpaid medical bills and would give Wisconsinites a six month grace…”

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“We made difficult decisions and saved where we could, leaving a balance of about $500 million in our state's checking account.”

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“With irresponsible decisions in Washington every day hurting people in Wisconsin, we will need to have state resources readily available to…”

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Tony Evers: “I'm also proposing to double our investments in the…”