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The GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee plans to approve a $2.5 billion capital budget that would close the prison in Green Bay by 2029 and include many of the changes to the state prison system that Dem Gov. Tony Evers had proposed, the co-chairs said today.
Dem Gov. Tony Evers and legislative leaders announced they have reached an agreement to pump an additional $1.2 billion into K-12 education, child care and the UW System. The deal also includes a $1.5 billion tax cut package, adding two of the guv’s priorities to what the GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee had already approved.
The Joint Finance Committee is scheduled to begin its final push on the state budget with GOP legislative leaders hoping to finish work on the document by the end of next week.
Wisconsin voters still had a net positive view of Dem Gov. Tony Evers’ job performance even as a majority oppose him running for a third term in 2026, according to a new Marquette University Law School Poll.
The court offered no comment on its decision, though it rejected a similar request in early 2024 after throwing out the legislative lines that had been used for the 2022 elections.
A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court today ruled Dem Gov. Tony Evers exceeded his authority by partially vetoing a bill in a literacy package even though it didn’t include an appropriation.
Speaking at a WisPolitics luncheon in Madison Tuesday, Kaul also slammed changes that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made to the way vaccines are approved.
In addition to what’s happening at the federal level, Mnookin’s communication comes as work on the budget has hit an impasse in the GOP-controlled Legislature.
The state Dem Party has used a form of ranked-choice voting since 2019. But today will be the first time the system is fully utilized, because there have been no more than two candidates for an office since it was implemented.
Activists at the Dem state convention today will vote on a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump for his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.
Whoever emerges from Sunday’s vote will follow one of the more successful chairs in party history. Along with a strong record at the ballot box — Dems have won 10 of 13 statewide contested elections since Ben Wikler became chair in June 2019 — the party has raised an astounding $206 million under his watch.
“The great unfinished task is to win the legislative majorities and be able to deliver the change in people’s lives that Democrats have been fighting for this entire time,” Wikler said in a new WisPolitics interview in advance of Dems’ state convention this week in Wisconsin Dells.
The lawsuit targets incentives offered registered Wisconsin voters to sign a petition opposing activist judges, arguing the ultimate goal was to help conservative Brad Schimel in the race.
Wisconsin is on pace to see a spike in credible threats against state judges and justices in 2025, according to numbers compiled by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. A court spokesperson says that’s partly because judges and staff across Wisconsin are being encouraged to report threats.
DPI Deputy State Superintendent Tom McCarthy said the agency will continue to withhold $16.6 million from the prior year and begin withholding new aid for this year.
The GOP legislators were among those who met a Friday deadline to indicate whether they wanted to weigh in on a lawsuit that argues the current districts failed to adhere to standards requiring the districts to have identical populations.
Jim Davel, the county administrator, told WisPolitics in a phone interview he has “no idea what the heck this is about, whatsoever.”
The Dem group Protect Our Jobs announced a new ad campaign targeting U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Prairie du Chien, for voting to cut clean energy tax breaks.
Those who will be on the ballot for chair are: 3rd CD Dem Chair William Garcia, former party Executive Director Devin Remiker and operative Joe Zepecki.
It would be their third day of meetings after they first got together March 26. Vos, R-Rochester, also confirmed legislative leaders met with Evers last week.
The GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee plans to approve a $2.5 billion capital budget that would close the prison in Green Bay by 2029 and include many of the changes to the state prison system that Dem Gov. Tony Evers had proposed, the co-chairs said today.
Dem Gov. Tony Evers and legislative leaders announced they have reached an agreement to pump an additional $1.2 billion into K-12 education, child care and the UW System. The deal also includes a $1.5 billion tax cut package, adding two of the guv’s priorities to what the GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee had already approved.
The Joint Finance Committee is scheduled to begin its final push on the state budget with GOP legislative leaders hoping to finish work on the document by the end of next week.
Wisconsin voters still had a net positive view of Dem Gov. Tony Evers’ job performance even as a majority oppose him running for a third term in 2026, according to a new Marquette University Law School Poll.
The court offered no comment on its decision, though it rejected a similar request in early 2024 after throwing out the legislative lines that had been used for the 2022 elections.
A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court today ruled Dem Gov. Tony Evers exceeded his authority by partially vetoing a bill in a literacy package even though it didn’t include an appropriation.
Speaking at a WisPolitics luncheon in Madison Tuesday, Kaul also slammed changes that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made to the way vaccines are approved.
In addition to what’s happening at the federal level, Mnookin’s communication comes as work on the budget has hit an impasse in the GOP-controlled Legislature.
The state Dem Party has used a form of ranked-choice voting since 2019. But today will be the first time the system is fully utilized, because there have been no more than two candidates for an office since it was implemented.
Activists at the Dem state convention today will vote on a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump for his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.
Whoever emerges from Sunday’s vote will follow one of the more successful chairs in party history. Along with a strong record at the ballot box — Dems have won 10 of 13 statewide contested elections since Ben Wikler became chair in June 2019 — the party has raised an astounding $206 million under his watch.
“The great unfinished task is to win the legislative majorities and be able to deliver the change in people’s lives that Democrats have been fighting for this entire time,” Wikler said in a new WisPolitics interview in advance of Dems’ state convention this week in Wisconsin Dells.
The lawsuit targets incentives offered registered Wisconsin voters to sign a petition opposing activist judges, arguing the ultimate goal was to help conservative Brad Schimel in the race.
Wisconsin is on pace to see a spike in credible threats against state judges and justices in 2025, according to numbers compiled by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. A court spokesperson says that’s partly because judges and staff across Wisconsin are being encouraged to report threats.
DPI Deputy State Superintendent Tom McCarthy said the agency will continue to withhold $16.6 million from the prior year and begin withholding new aid for this year.
The GOP legislators were among those who met a Friday deadline to indicate whether they wanted to weigh in on a lawsuit that argues the current districts failed to adhere to standards requiring the districts to have identical populations.
Jim Davel, the county administrator, told WisPolitics in a phone interview he has “no idea what the heck this is about, whatsoever.”
The Dem group Protect Our Jobs announced a new ad campaign targeting U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Prairie du Chien, for voting to cut clean energy tax breaks.
Those who will be on the ballot for chair are: 3rd CD Dem Chair William Garcia, former party Executive Director Devin Remiker and operative Joe Zepecki.
It would be their third day of meetings after they first got together March 26. Vos, R-Rochester, also confirmed legislative leaders met with Evers last week.