The GOP-run Joint Finance Committee today shot down along party lines the Evers administration’s request for more positions to help process credential requests at the Department of Safety and Professional Services.

JFC also voted 11-4 along party lines on a $3 billion GOP bill seeking to reduce the state’s third-highest income tax bracket while expanding an existing break on retirement income.

Assembly Minority Leader Greta Neubauer, D-Racine, today appointed Rep. Deb Andraca, D-Whitefish Bay, to serve on the Joint Finance Committee for the rest of the 2023-24 session.

Wisconsin is projected to finish the 2023-25 biennium with a more than $4 billion surplus after Dem Gov. Tony Evers vetoed the bulk of a GOP income tax cut plan, according to new figures from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.

The state Senate will take up the budget on Wednesday as the Legislature works to complete its work on the document this week.

Gov. Tony Evers today was noncommittal about potentially vetoing the GOP’s $3.5 billion income tax cut passed by the Joint Finance Committee but said he still believes tax cuts shouldn’t go to the rich.

The Joint Finance committee voted 12-4 along party lines to approve the state budget after Republicans signed off on a $3.5 billion income tax cut and voted to cut $32 million from the UW System. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, in a statement hailed the tax cuts. “For the

The Joint Finance Committee today voted 12-4 along party lines to increase state employee compensation by over $700 million. 

The Joint Finance Committee is set to meet tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. to finish up the state budget. The committee’s agenda includes the UW System, Budget Management and Compensation Reserves, Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, Shared Revenue and Tax Relief, General Fund Taxes and Budget Stabilization Fund. Those are

Republican lawmakers are still hashing out details of a proposed income tax cut of more than $3 billion while Brewers talks have stalled, GOP Assembly leaders told reporters today.