Decker interview audio
Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker said in a WisPolitics interview last week that he and Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch are "fairly close in concept" to agreement on how to address the projected $525 million budget deficit.
Asked if Gov. Jim Doyle wasn't on the same page, Decker said, "That's accurate."
"They want to go in a direction that's very difficult for us to get the votes to pass it through the Legislature," said Decker, D-Weston.
The hang ups remain in the delay of school aid payments, Doyle's plan to borrow from the transportation fund and backfill it with bonding, and the amount to seek in re-securitizing tobacco bonds.
Decker said everyone has to keep in mind that any budget adjustment bill needs to get enough votes to pass both houses of the Legislature.
"We have a caucus of 18 in the Senate Democrats and Huebsch has his, and the governor has a caucus of one," Decker said. "So you know he doesn't have to juggle all the political situations of all the individual legislators."
Listen to the interview here.
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