Two Challenges Filed Against Evers’ 400-Year School Funding Veto
There are new challenges to Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ 400-year school funding increase.
Both the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and the Institute for Reforming Government recently filed amicus briefs with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, challenging the governor's veto power.
“The partial veto power is a tool in the governor’s toolbelt, but it has a specific purpose. When it comes to fiscal policy, the partial veto power is a one-way rachet. It empowers the governor to tighten public spending and taxation by eliminating or reducing budgetary items, but it does not permit the reverse. The governor cannot use the partial veto power to increase either appropriations or revenue. That function requires a different tool – legislative power – which is not in the governor’s toolbelt,” IRGs brief states.
Evers changed a line in the current state budget to change a two-year school funding increase into a 400-year increase.
IRG CEO C.J. Szafir said the governor’s veto is both