GOP budget on shaky ground as second Republican senator vows 'no' vote

A second GOP senator said he would vote against his party’s two-year spending plan, placing the roughly $81 billion package in peril as both houses are set to vote on it next week.

Sen. David Craig, R-Big Bend, one of the chamber’s most fiscally conservative members, told 1130 WISN radio Thursday morning that he would join Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, in opposing the plan, which they say spends too much money.

One more Republican vote against could sink the GOP’s two-year biennial budget proposal, assuming no Democrats vote for it. Republican leaders could still offer changes to the budget before then to win over support.

Two other Republican fiscal hawks — Sens. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville, and Chris Kapenga, R-Delafield — haven’t yet said whether they’d vote for the plan.

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