MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans voted Thursday to scrap expanding Medicaid, legalizing medical marijuana, raising the minimum wage and a host of other priorities of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers as they begin dismantling his two-year budget plan.
1 / 2Wisconsin Republican state Rep. John Nygren, co-chair of the Legislature's budget committee, defends the committee's voting to kill Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' plan to accept full Medicaid expansion on Thursday, May 9, 2019, in Madison, Wis. Republicans, who control the Legislature, have long opposed Medicaid expansion and Nygren says he does not support any compromise on the issue.
But Republicans who control the Legislature aren't bending from their long-held opposition, which they believe is popular with their base of supporters, even as some GOP lawmakers have publicly talked about trying to find a compromise. State Rep. John Nygren, the Republican co-chair of the budget committee, said Thursday that he wouldn't compromise on taking something less than full expansion, rejecting that as"Medicaid light.
In response to Democratic criticism that rejecting expansion hurt poor people, Republican Sen. Tom Tiffany said:"I do not have a moral problem." Republicans are refusing to listen to the will of the people or work together, and Wisconsin residents will pay the price, Evers said. To date, Wisconsin has missed out on $1.1 billion in federal money for Medicaid expansion. It is one of only 13 states that have not accepted Medicaid expansion money and the only one that did a partial expansion without taking the money.
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