Tenzin and Stacy Botsford are farmers in Marathon County who’ve done everything right— growing a variety of vegetables and fruits that can be found at farmers markets, local restaurants, schools, and food pantries. But the Trump-Musk budget axe is coming down on the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program, which buys food from local farms, like the Botsfords’ Red Door Family Farm, and distributes to those pantries and schools. We’ll get into the many ways this is a bad plan. We’ll also update the state budget negotiations going on between Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and the Republicans who control the Legislature. The GOP seems content to again sit on and squander a multi-billion dollar surplus if they don’t get a tax cut plan they like—while Evers has proposed nearly $2 billion in tax relief in his version of a new budget.

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