Two major sticking points in moving the stalled state budget forward have been addressed, Gov. Jim Doyle announced this afternoon, with the Senate Democrats agreeing to remove their universal health care plan from the budget and Assembly Democrats dropping their plan to cut $130 million from Doyle’s budget for public schools.
Doyle said at a news conference there are “real consequences for this state” in not yet having a finished budget, but added, “now we are making progress.”