Robson discouraged
Sen. Robson said it's hard to take Republicans on the committee seriously when they come to the table without an offer or a counter-offer to a Dem proposal. And she said she is "discouraged" by Huebsch's talk of a "no-budget scenario."
While there has been progress behind the scenes, she said Huebsch and the Republicans have been "disdainful" of the open process, and jabbed Republican members for calling the open meetings "a waste of time."
Huebsch responded that he merely wanted to point out that Wisconsin is not without a budget, "the agencies have money available to them," he said, but there are impacts to not setting a new budget in areas like education and local government levy limits.
"Taxpayers should not be held hostage because we can't agree on Stewardship," he said.
"There is an urgency that exists in a very small portion of the budget ... that doesn't exist in those other areas," he said.
