Democratic Gov. Tony Evers called on Wisconsin lawmakers to pass stricter gun safety laws and invest hundreds of millions of dollars in school meal programs and student mental health initiatives on Wednesday in his seventh annual State of the State Address, declaring 2025 the “Year of the Kid.”
The governor also decried Republican immigration policies and vowed to protect reproductive rights and the Affordable Care Act as President Donald Trump takes executive action on those issues early in his second term.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the state’s top Republican, blasted the address as “liberal wishes, empty promises, and a whole lot of things that are not going to happen in Wisconsin.”…