Rainwater isn’t beer, Wisconsin Legislature delays $1.8B surplus deal vote

(The Center Square) – The Wisconsin Assembly went into recess and were still delayed on a vote on a budget surplus spending bill at 4 p.m. Wednesday.

The bill was thought to have enough Republican votes to pass the Assembly but not in the Senate, where two Senators had openly stated they were against the proposal, an agreement between Gov. Tony Evers, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu.

The bill includes an income tax refund, an end to income tax on overtime and tips and includes $300 million in special education funding along with $300 million in general school aid that would replace property tax funding for the same.

Republicans in the Assembly said that the bill was a compromise that did good things while spending $1.8 billion of the state’s budget surplus but it wasn’t perfect and didn’t have everything they wanted.

“I wish rainwater was beer, but it’s not,” Rep. Bob Donovan, R-Greenfield, said about the compromise.

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