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Does Wisconsin have a budget deficit?
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jan 23, 2012 12:13pm |
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| Category | Strategy |
| Author | Jason Stein |
| Media | Newspaper - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
| News Date | Sunday, January 22, 2012 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Gov. Scott Walker's administration has touted for months its efforts to balance the state budget, but now it also has acknowledged a significant way in which the budget isn't balanced.
To keep the possibility alive of making further cuts to state health programs, the Walker administration quietly certified to the federal government on Dec. 29 that the state had a deficit.
Federal law allows the state to drop tens of thousands of adults to save money on health care costs if the state can show it has a deficit. Walker has said he wants to cut health care spending in other ways, but hasn't ruled out dropping those 53,000 adults if the other methods aren't approved by the federal government.
To keep that option alive, state Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch wrote in a December letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that the state would have an undisclosed deficit from Jan. 1 of this year through June 30, 2013.
How can the Walker administration say that the 2011-'13 state budget is both balanced and in deficit? |
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