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EDGERTON — Gov. Scott Walker edged closer Thursday to a road-funding showdown with fellow Republicans in the next state budget, saying his two-year transportation plan would not raise taxes or fees — at the cost of delaying major road expansions, including the Verona Road project in the Madison area.

Walker’s plan would keep other large highway projects on schedule, including the Interstate 39-90 expansion in Dane and Rock counties.

Walker, while unveiling his administration’s 2017-19 transportation budget request, also drew the lines of an impending battle with his Republican colleagues in the Assembly, where GOP leaders have left the door open to increasing gas taxes or transportation fees, such as vehicle registration fees, in 2017 to resolve the state’s road-funding woes. They have also floated the idea of instituting toll roads.

Walker told reporters Thursday that he would veto “any changes made to the budget that add to the overall burden of the taxpayers of this state.”

“My promise to the taxpayers was, I was not going to raise the gas tax or other associated fees without a corresponding reduction,” Walker said. “If people want to make changes to the budget, they need to be mindful of that.”