(GREEN BAY) Governor Jim Doyle was in northeastern Wisconsin Tuesday (7/17) blasting a Republican budget plan. Doyle called the Assembly-backed budget an â??assault on higher education.â?
When it comes to the University of Wisconsin budget, thereâ??s a gulf of more than $100 million dollars between one passed by the Republican-controlled Assembly and the one from the Democratic-controlled state Senate. Republicans say their plan protects Wisconsin families from tax increases, but Doyle says Republicans also erased $44 million dollars in new financial aid that was previously endorsed by the bipartisan Joint Finance Committee. He says the Assembly â??took out every dimeâ? of that financial aid increase.