New York (CNN Business) Tony Evers, the Democratic governor of Wisconsin, says he doesn't think Foxconn will ever add 13,000 jobs in his state.

And he says it's time to drop the lush incentive deal his predecessor used to lure the Taiwanese electronics company to Wisconsin.

In 2017, Foxconn and former Governor Scott Walker, a Republican, struck the deal to build a large manufacturing plant, promising it would be a first step to creating a kind of Silicon Valley in Wisconsin.

The deal was enormously controversial . The state agreed to give Foxconn $3 billion in tax cuts and financial handouts based on the number of jobs the company creates. But it could also get potentially more than $1 billion in incentives from local governments.

The overall package would be one of the most expensive state incentive packages ever granted to a company.

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