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PFAS cleanup funds are latest battleground in fight over money and power in the Capitol
While Gov. Tony Evers has called a meeting of the Legislature’s powerful budget committee for Tuesday morning, it’s not on official calendars and the committee’s Republican leaders have already dismissed any intention of being there.
Evers’ agenda for the Joint Finance Committee meeting is to authorize a plan to spend $125 million set aside in the 2023-25 state budget to address drinking water contamination by PFAS “forever chemicals,” along with a plan to inject $15 million into health care services in western Wisconsin that was authorized in legislation enacted earlier this year.
Barring a last-minute change of heart by the finance committee’s Republican majority, the only lawmakers at the meeting will be the panel’s four Democratic members.