The budget-balancing plan the Senate passed Tuesday would still leave the state nearly $1.7 billion short three years from now.
The nonpartisan legislative Fiscal Bureau delivered that news to Republican state lawmakers in two separate briefings just before the Democratic-controlled Senate voted 17-16 along largely partisan lines to pass it. Only Sen. Tim Carpenter, D-Milwaukee, broke party ranks to vote no.
The Republican-controlled Assembly planned to take up the bill to fix the current $527 million shortfall on Wednesday.