MADISON, Wis. (AP) –î Wisconsin’s tenuous bipartisan detente in fighting the coronavirus pandemic broke down this week with Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ decision to extend a stay-at-home order through Memorial Day, a divide likely to result in lawsuits that may determine who has the power to say when the state can start to reopen.

“We’re angry, we’re frustrated and we’re trying to push back in every way that we can so we can succeed,” Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said on WISN-AM on Friday. Vos said his goal was to have a legal strategy in place for next week, but he doesn’t want to file a lawsuit that could lose and result in giving Evers more power.

Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm, at Evers’ direction, issued an order on Thursday extending the stay-at-home order from April 24 until May 26, closing schools for the academic year and most nonessential businesses. The extension gives Wisconsin the latest stay-at-home order date in the Midwest and one of the latest in the country.

The order came on the same day that President Donald Trump outlined steps for states seeing a steady decline in cases to start to reopen. Evers stood by his decision Friday.

“Folks are scared and they need to know who they can trust,” Evers said in a statement. “They should trust science. They should trust our public health experts. And they should be able to trust their elected officials to make the best possible decisions based on science and facts. I can’t speak for any other elected officials, but that’s my commitment.”

Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling said in a statement Friday that his department wouldn’t enforce the safer-at-home order.

“The overreaching measures taken by State government will have dire lifetime consequences for businesses, homeowners, and families,” Schmaling said in his statement.

Prior to the order extension, there were rifts between Evers and Republicans over the state’s response, but they had largely been unified. Evers signed a COVID-19 aid bill Wednesday that passed with near unanimous support in the Legislature.

However, as unemployment skyrocketed with nearly 400,000 people out of work as of Friday, pressure was building to reopen businesses.

“Republicans think the pandemic is serious. We know that it’s real,” Vos said. What’s missing from Evers is an appreciation for how the economy is “starving,” he said.

Evers insisted he’s taking action in line with what health officials say is the best course to slow the spread of the virus and it would not help the economy to reopen before it is safe to do so. As of Friday, there were 205 COVID-19 deaths in Wisconsin and more than 4,000 confirmed cases. Health officials have said they think the curve is flattening in Wisconsin, but it could rise without continued mitigation efforts.