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The agency sought a $2.5 billion increase during the previous budget cycle, and the Legislature ended up approving just over $1 billion in additional state aid.
Justice Jill Karofsky said she fears the Supreme Court is being asked to “sign the death warrant” for women and others as the Sheboygan DA seeks to restore an 1849 law that had been interpreted to ban abortions except to save the life of the mother. Meanwhile, fellow liberal Rebecca Dallet questioned whether the state could still enforce a law that was written by white, landowning men considering the string of changes made to abortion statutes since then.
Reince Priebus, former chief of staff to Donald Trump and ex-chairman of the Republican National Committee, says he’ll be involved but won’t get ”too much in the matrix” during the second Trump administration.
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon analyze results in top Wisconsin races, leadership changes in the state Legislature and more.
Newly elected Senate President Mary Felzkowski told WisPolitics she will seek to fill a “void” for members left by the outgoing president, Chris Kapenga.
After Republicans held onto their majority in the Assembly, Speaker Robin Vos vowed the state’s projected $3.5 billion surplus would either go back to taxpayers as relief or stay in the state’s coffers.
GOP U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde isn’t conceding to Dem Tammy Baldwin this morning, saying in a statement his campaign will “continue to monitor returns and make sure that every vote is counted.”
Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin early this morning declared victory after Milwaukee’s final tally of its absentee ballots pushed her to a nearly 16,000-vote lead over GOP businessman Eric Hovde.
Multiple media outlets have projected Donald Trump will win Wisconsin, putting the Badger State back in his column four years after narrowly losing it to Joe Biden.
Republicans maintained control of the Assembly today despite new legislative lines that gave Dems more opportunities to flip the chamber than previous maps. As of early this morning, Republicans had secured the 50 seats they needed to maintain the majority, according to a WisPolitics check of unofficial returns.
Dems picked up three seats in the state Senate on Tuesday — including knocking off GOP state Sens. Joan Ballweg and Duey Stroebel — as they kept the door open to taking a run at flipping control of the chamber in 2026. They also led in early returns in a fourth seat that would mark a clean sweep of the contested races on Tuesday’s ballot.
Republican U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden declared victory in his reelection bid in western Wisconsin’s 3rd CD tonight in one of the most closely watched races in the Badger State.
U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil won reelection tonight to the 1st CD as De Pere businessman Tony Wied secured the open 8th CD for Republicans.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, who joined Republican Party Chair Brian Schimming to inspect Milwaukee central count operation, said Milwaukee “obviously wasn’t” ready for Election Day, calling it “sloppy.”
Milwaukee election officials are starting over with counting some 31,000 absentee ballots initially fed through tabulators that hadn’t properly been locked, likely adding significant time to the final tally.
City of Milwaukee Election Commission Director Paulina Gutierrez cautioned it would be a late night in Milwaukee due to the number of absentee ballots that must be processed.
In all, WisPolitics has tracked $27.2 million in five state Senate races and $54.9 million in 13 Assembly campaigns. The money race is a confluence of the new maps that gave Dems a path to the majority and the interest megadonors have taken in shaping the legislative contests.
Walz and Vance held competing rallies yesterday in La Crosse – a big hub in the crucial 3rd Congressional District – on the eve of the election. The rallies came just days after their running mates, Harris and Donald Trump, rallied voters at dueling events in Milwaukee on Friday. Walz also had visits in Stevens Point and Milwaukee. Yesterday marked Walz and Vance’s ninth Wisconsin visits.
Brian Schimming, chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, says the remaining final hours of get-out-the-vote efforts will be “very intense” ahead of Election Day.
Donald Trump told his supporters at a Milwaukee rally Kamala Harris “hates you” as he charged she can’t answer a question, is a “dummy,” “cracks under pressure” and is a “weak person.” Five miles away at her own rally, Harris warned her backers that Trump is “not done” after his picks for the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade and would seek to impose a national abortion ban, restrict access to birth control and put IVF treatments at risk.
The agency sought a $2.5 billion increase during the previous budget cycle, and the Legislature ended up approving just over $1 billion in additional state aid.
Justice Jill Karofsky said she fears the Supreme Court is being asked to “sign the death warrant” for women and others as the Sheboygan DA seeks to restore an 1849 law that had been interpreted to ban abortions except to save the life of the mother. Meanwhile, fellow liberal Rebecca Dallet questioned whether the state could still enforce a law that was written by white, landowning men considering the string of changes made to abortion statutes since then.
Reince Priebus, former chief of staff to Donald Trump and ex-chairman of the Republican National Committee, says he’ll be involved but won’t get ”too much in the matrix” during the second Trump administration.
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon analyze results in top Wisconsin races, leadership changes in the state Legislature and more.
Newly elected Senate President Mary Felzkowski told WisPolitics she will seek to fill a “void” for members left by the outgoing president, Chris Kapenga.
After Republicans held onto their majority in the Assembly, Speaker Robin Vos vowed the state’s projected $3.5 billion surplus would either go back to taxpayers as relief or stay in the state’s coffers.
GOP U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde isn’t conceding to Dem Tammy Baldwin this morning, saying in a statement his campaign will “continue to monitor returns and make sure that every vote is counted.”
Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin early this morning declared victory after Milwaukee’s final tally of its absentee ballots pushed her to a nearly 16,000-vote lead over GOP businessman Eric Hovde.
Multiple media outlets have projected Donald Trump will win Wisconsin, putting the Badger State back in his column four years after narrowly losing it to Joe Biden.
Republicans maintained control of the Assembly today despite new legislative lines that gave Dems more opportunities to flip the chamber than previous maps. As of early this morning, Republicans had secured the 50 seats they needed to maintain the majority, according to a WisPolitics check of unofficial returns.
Dems picked up three seats in the state Senate on Tuesday — including knocking off GOP state Sens. Joan Ballweg and Duey Stroebel — as they kept the door open to taking a run at flipping control of the chamber in 2026. They also led in early returns in a fourth seat that would mark a clean sweep of the contested races on Tuesday’s ballot.
Republican U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden declared victory in his reelection bid in western Wisconsin’s 3rd CD tonight in one of the most closely watched races in the Badger State.
U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil won reelection tonight to the 1st CD as De Pere businessman Tony Wied secured the open 8th CD for Republicans.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, who joined Republican Party Chair Brian Schimming to inspect Milwaukee central count operation, said Milwaukee “obviously wasn’t” ready for Election Day, calling it “sloppy.”
Milwaukee election officials are starting over with counting some 31,000 absentee ballots initially fed through tabulators that hadn’t properly been locked, likely adding significant time to the final tally.
City of Milwaukee Election Commission Director Paulina Gutierrez cautioned it would be a late night in Milwaukee due to the number of absentee ballots that must be processed.
In all, WisPolitics has tracked $27.2 million in five state Senate races and $54.9 million in 13 Assembly campaigns. The money race is a confluence of the new maps that gave Dems a path to the majority and the interest megadonors have taken in shaping the legislative contests.
Walz and Vance held competing rallies yesterday in La Crosse – a big hub in the crucial 3rd Congressional District – on the eve of the election. The rallies came just days after their running mates, Harris and Donald Trump, rallied voters at dueling events in Milwaukee on Friday. Walz also had visits in Stevens Point and Milwaukee. Yesterday marked Walz and Vance’s ninth Wisconsin visits.
Brian Schimming, chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, says the remaining final hours of get-out-the-vote efforts will be “very intense” ahead of Election Day.
Donald Trump told his supporters at a Milwaukee rally Kamala Harris “hates you” as he charged she can’t answer a question, is a “dummy,” “cracks under pressure” and is a “weak person.” Five miles away at her own rally, Harris warned her backers that Trump is “not done” after his picks for the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade and would seek to impose a national abortion ban, restrict access to birth control and put IVF treatments at risk.