MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers called on the Republican-controlled Legislature Tuesday to bolster funding for K-12 and higher education and reform the state's criminal justice systems, while delivering a state budget with $1 billion in tax increases and liberal policy priorities that GOP leaders promised to quickly kill.
Evers pitched his $91 billion two-year state budget to the Legislature as a "Badger Bounceback" agenda as the coronavirus pandemic enters its second year.
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