MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed a package of Republican-authored bills that would have directed how the state would spend $3.2 billion in federal COVID-19 relief money.
Evers on Thursday also announced that up to $420 million in that money coming to the state would go toward a grant program targeting small businesses.
One of the bills he vetoed would have directed $200 million toward small businesses, an amount Evers said “won’t cut it for me.”
Evers also previously vetoed a Republican bill that would have given the Legislature, rather than Evers, control over the spending of the federal money.
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