MADISON (AP) — The Republican leader of the Wisconsin state Senate is calling for a veto override after Gov. Tony Evers' administration said Milwaukee's street car could compete for $75 million in grant money.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald called for the veto override Thursday. His call came shortly after Transportation Secretary Craig Thompson outlined how the new $75 million grant program would work.
The state budget as passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature included $90 million for local road projects. Evers vetoed it down to $75 million.
The Evers administration is shifting the money from the local roads program and making it a grant program that's open to any transportation project, including Milwaukee's street car known as the Hop.
Republicans don't have enough votes on their own to override a veto.
