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  Morning Digest: Wisconsin GOP seeks to curtail veto power that extended school funding 400 years Governors have wielded the "Vanna White" veto for a century, despite many crackdowns David Nir and Jeff Singer Feb 24 Democratic Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin. (Credit: Tony Evers Facebook) Leading Off WI Ballot Wisconsin’s GOP-led legislature  approved  a proposed state constitutional amendment last week to curb the governor’s extensive and unique partial veto powers—a move that comes three years after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers extended school funding  400 years longer  than Republicans had wanted. Evers, who has spent his entire two terms in office parrying a hostile legislature, was able to pull off that feat by wielding his pen on a line in a budget that said increased funding would be in effect “for the 2023–24 school year and the 2024–25 school year.” Evers deleted—vetoed— just enough characters  so that the funding would apply “for 2023–2425.”...