Medicaid expansion a no go in final budget

Gov. Tony Evers said while seeking the state's highest office he would "take immediate action to accept the federal Medicaid expansion dollars."

His draft of the budget did that, tapping into $1 billion-plus in federal funding as a foundational piece of the funding puzzle.

But the Republican Legislature rebuilt the budget without the Medicaid expansion, and that's what Evers eventually signed into law.

Evers will have other chances to push for Medicaid expansion during his term, but he promised "immediate action," and that hasn't happened. And Republicans show no signs of allowing that to change in the near future.

We rate outcomes and not intent, which puts this at Promise Broken.