CONTACT: Brad Bainum, bradb@wisdems.org MADISON — Right-wing state Senator Leah Vukmir and out-of-state special interest puppet Kevin Nicholson have officially endorsed a 36% premium increase on Wisconsin working families. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Nicholson and Vukmir — vocal backers of Republican TrumpCare healthcare plans that’d take healthcare away from tens of millions of Americans — are now fully opposed to a bipartisan Senate bill sponsored by 12 Republicans and 12 Democrats, including Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin, that aims to stabilize the President Trump-led sabotage of healthcare markets that has premiums spiking across the country, including by 36% in Wisconsin. “By opposing this bipartisan solution to

CONTACT: press@baldwin.senate.gov (202) 224 – 6225 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin released the following statement on the Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Resolution voted on in the Senate tonight: “I believe Wisconsin families need a tax break and that’s what I’m working for. But this budget resolution paves the way for a partisan tax proposal that favors big corporations and gives a majority of the tax breaks to the wealthiest 1 percent. I just don’t think it’s right to make Wisconsin’s hardworking middle class families pay for it by blowing a hole in the deficit and cutting Medicare and

CONTACT: Tim Olusegun, WisDOT Bureau of Transit, Local Roads, Rails and Harbors (608) 266-0254, Tim.Olusegun@dot.wi.gov Today, Governor Scott Walker announced that local governments received quarterly payments totaling $108,187,044 for General Transportation Aids, Connecting Highway Aids and Expressway Policing Aids from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT). Payments to Wisconsin’s 1,925 local units of government include: $104,915,193 in General Transportation Aids; $3,015,876 to 117 municipalities entitled to receive Connecting Highway Aids; and $255,975 to Milwaukee County for Expressway Policing Aids. General Transportation Aids help defray the costs of constructing, maintaining, and operating roads and streets under local jurisdiction. Connecting Highway Aids

CONTACT: Representative Ron Tusler, (920) 749-0400 Madison, WI – Today, Representative Ron Tusler (R – Harrison) testified on Senate Bill 369, which would allow law enforcement and Wisconsin courts to recognize and enforce domestic violence protection orders issued by Canadian Courts. This bill is one of two bills authored by Rep. Tusler this session that addresses domestic violence. “I have represented victims of domestic violence and seen first-hand the effects domestic violence can have on the victims and their families,” said Rep. Tusler. “This bill, if passed, could save someone’s life at a critical moment.” The bill, also known as