MacIver News Minute: Evers Already Falling Behind With Budget Work

The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week

Work on the next state budget has just begun, and Governor Evers is already struggling to keep up. Every state agency is required to submit its funding request to Evers by Sep. 16th, according to the deadline he set. However, the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) says that Evers still hasn’t released all the details agencies need to complete that request. WEC decided to submit a partial request for now and amend it later to meet the deadline. Evers better get his act together fast. The deadlines for work on the budget are going to start piling up fast. His budget proposal is due in February. Five months might sound like a long time, but not when you’re talking about preparing a 750-page document that spends around $100 billion - especially when it depends on the input from 68 state agencies that are being kept waiting because of you. Not a great start to what’s sure to be yet another contentious budget cycle.