Welcome to the Wisconsin GOP Family Leave Freakout

 

Headline:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/23/2023

"We will never be able to discuss many things that the governor included in his budget," he [Evan Goyke, D-Milwaukee] said. "I think it was certainly designed to avoid any actual debate on real issues that are facing Wisconsin families." 

Rep. Shannon Zimmerman, R- River Falls, said paid family leave was just another way that taxpayers would end up paying for those who didn't want to work. 

 "I mean, we have a shrinking pool of workers and the answer that we're hearing here is 'Let's continue to find more ways that that shrinking pool of workers are going to support those who don't really want to work or can't work,'" he said. "So that's going to counter to what we're tying to accomplish here entirely." 

[Howarad] Marklein [Joint Finance Committee co-chair] repeatedly asked Democrats to stop talking about the paid family leave measure. 

"The motion is out of order," he said. "We're going to dispose with this."

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