Top GOP lawmakers said Tuesday that Gov. Scott Walker?s budget repair plan will pass the Legislature even as thousands of workers converged on the Capitol to protest the proposal?s cuts in employee benefits and union bargaining rights.
Andrew Welhouse, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau), said Republicans had the support needed to get the bill through the Senate, where it faces its biggest hurdle. The bill makes cuts to public workers? pension and health benefits and eliminates almost all union bargaining rights.