Clean water is one issue that Wisconsin Republicans and Democrats appear to agree on. The Legislature’s budget-writing committee approved Governor Tony Evers’ plan today (Tuesday) to increase budget-writing committee approved Governor Tony Evers’ plan today (Tuesday) to increase the clean water program’s borrowing authority by 13-and-a-half-million dollars. The GOP-led panel also authorized increasing the safe drinking water loan program’s borrowing authority by three-point-six-million over the next two years. Some Democrats on the committee complained that Republicans blocked Evers’ proposal to invest 35-million dollars to replace lead pipe service lines across the state.
