Governor Signs Budget in Early Morning to Secure Medicaid Funds

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signs budget in early morning to secure Medicaid funds

Reading Time: 4 minutes Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed a new two-year budget in the early morning hours Thursday in a race against Congress to ensure the state gets a federal Medicaid match that it would lose under President Trump’s tax and spending cuts package. In an extraordinarily rapid succession of events, Evers and Republican lawmakers unveiled a compromise budget deal on Tuesday, the Senate passed it Wednesday night, and hours later ju…

Governor signs budget in early morning to secure Medicaid funds

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has signed a new two-year budget to secure federal Medicaid funding. The budget passed both legislative chambers in an unprecedented single day on Wednesday into early Thursday morning, driven by urgency to access $1.5 billion in federal funds for rural hospitals.

Wisconsin governor signs budget in early morning to secure Medicaid funds

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed a new two-year budget in the early morning hours Thursday in a race against Congress to ensure the state gets a federal Medicaid match that it would lose under President Trump's tax and spending cuts package.

Evers signs budget in early morning to secure Medicaid funds

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has signed a new two-year budget to secure federal Medicaid funding.

Gov. Evers signs budget in early morning to secure Medicaid funds

The budget passed both legislative chambers in an unprecedented single day on Wednesday into early Thursday morning.

Evers signs new 2-year budget

The governor raced against Congress to secure Wisconsin’s federal Medicaid match that it would lose under President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts package.