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The Assembly approved a $2.1 billion GOP package that would expand the state’s second-lowest tax bracket while providing additional breaks for retirement income, married couples and child care.
The GOP-run Legislature approved Tony Evers’ proposed new maps, sending them to the Dem guv after he said he’d sign them so long as Republicans didn’t make any changes.
The Senate approved the maps 18-14 with nine Dems and five Republicans voting no.
LeMahieu’s move would amend SB 488, which would impose an Iowa-style redistricting system in Wisconsin. The substitute amendment would instead turn the bill into Evers’ proposals for the Assembly and the Senate districts now before the state Supreme Court in a redistricting suit.
GOP U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher has several options for the more than $4 million he had in the bank to end 2023 after his surprise announcement that he won’t seek reelection this fall.
Gov. Tony Evers says if the Republican-controlled Legislature passes the maps he submitted to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, he’ll sign them into law.
U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Allouez, announced he won’t seek reelection this fall, saying the “Framers intended citizens to serve in Congress for a season and then return to their private lives.”
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in the redistricting case before the state Supreme Court, a potential investigation into state prisons following inmate deaths, Republicans’ $2.1 billion tax-cut plan, results of the latest Marquette University Law School poll and more.
Attorneys for GOP lawmakers and conservative voters demanded the state Supreme Court reject two consultants’ report that recommended ignoring their proposed maps for legislative districts and only considering plans submitted by Dems.
Wisconsin’s House members split along party lines this week on a bill to provide $17.6 billion to Israel in its ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza as the measure failed 250-180. The vote came after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., blasted as “dead on arrival” a $118 billion bipartisan Senate proposal to crack down on border security while providing funding for Ukraine and Israel.
Joe Biden and Donald Trump were locked in a close race for president in the first Marquette University Law School Poll of Wisconsin voters in 2024, while Nikki Haley had a 16-point lead on the Dem president.
The Joint Finance Committee today voted along party lines to approve a $2.1 billion GOP package that would reduce income taxes while expanding other breaks for retirement income, married couples and child care.
The Allouez Republican after last night’s vote said Republicans failed to prove Mayorkas breached the “impeachment threshold Republicans outlined while defending former President Trump.”
The co-chairs of the Joint Audit Committee and the Evers administration are at odds over whether interest from federal COVID-19 funds should be deposited in the general fund. The state collected more than $97 million in interest off the $3 billion in funds it received.
U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips, the Dem presidential candidate from Minnesota, insists he will remain in the race through at least Wisconsin’s primary in April after the Wisconsin Supreme Court Friday ordered his name appear on the ballot. “My mission is to demonstrate to the country there’s an alternative,” Phillips said on WISN’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics.
The court ruled the Presidential Preference Selection Committee abused its discretion in refusing to include Phillips on the ballot alongside President Joe Biden.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in the redistricting case before the state Supreme Court, Minnesota U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips’ lawsuit to be included on the Dem presidential primary ballot in Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers signing legislation intended to increase dental care access and more.
The consultants didn’t include a recommendation of which Dem proposal they thought was superior.
State Rep. Katrina Shankland tells WisPolitics Capitol Chats that 3rd CD freshman Cong. Derrick Van Orden isn’t serving his constituents, arguing he has been in the news repeatedly for “all the wrong reasons.” Shankland is one of three Dems in the race to unseat the Prairie du Chien Republican.
The Dem governor had vowed to veto the maps when Republicans quickly pushed them through last week. The state Supreme Court is poised to pick new lines unless the guv and lawmakers could reach a deal.
The Assembly approved a $2.1 billion GOP package that would expand the state’s second-lowest tax bracket while providing additional breaks for retirement income, married couples and child care.
The GOP-run Legislature approved Tony Evers’ proposed new maps, sending them to the Dem guv after he said he’d sign them so long as Republicans didn’t make any changes.
The Senate approved the maps 18-14 with nine Dems and five Republicans voting no.
LeMahieu’s move would amend SB 488, which would impose an Iowa-style redistricting system in Wisconsin. The substitute amendment would instead turn the bill into Evers’ proposals for the Assembly and the Senate districts now before the state Supreme Court in a redistricting suit.
GOP U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher has several options for the more than $4 million he had in the bank to end 2023 after his surprise announcement that he won’t seek reelection this fall.
Gov. Tony Evers says if the Republican-controlled Legislature passes the maps he submitted to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, he’ll sign them into law.
U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Allouez, announced he won’t seek reelection this fall, saying the “Framers intended citizens to serve in Congress for a season and then return to their private lives.”
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in the redistricting case before the state Supreme Court, a potential investigation into state prisons following inmate deaths, Republicans’ $2.1 billion tax-cut plan, results of the latest Marquette University Law School poll and more.
Attorneys for GOP lawmakers and conservative voters demanded the state Supreme Court reject two consultants’ report that recommended ignoring their proposed maps for legislative districts and only considering plans submitted by Dems.
Wisconsin’s House members split along party lines this week on a bill to provide $17.6 billion to Israel in its ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza as the measure failed 250-180. The vote came after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., blasted as “dead on arrival” a $118 billion bipartisan Senate proposal to crack down on border security while providing funding for Ukraine and Israel.
Joe Biden and Donald Trump were locked in a close race for president in the first Marquette University Law School Poll of Wisconsin voters in 2024, while Nikki Haley had a 16-point lead on the Dem president.
The Joint Finance Committee today voted along party lines to approve a $2.1 billion GOP package that would reduce income taxes while expanding other breaks for retirement income, married couples and child care.
The Allouez Republican after last night’s vote said Republicans failed to prove Mayorkas breached the “impeachment threshold Republicans outlined while defending former President Trump.”
The co-chairs of the Joint Audit Committee and the Evers administration are at odds over whether interest from federal COVID-19 funds should be deposited in the general fund. The state collected more than $97 million in interest off the $3 billion in funds it received.
U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips, the Dem presidential candidate from Minnesota, insists he will remain in the race through at least Wisconsin’s primary in April after the Wisconsin Supreme Court Friday ordered his name appear on the ballot. “My mission is to demonstrate to the country there’s an alternative,” Phillips said on WISN’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics.
The court ruled the Presidential Preference Selection Committee abused its discretion in refusing to include Phillips on the ballot alongside President Joe Biden.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in the redistricting case before the state Supreme Court, Minnesota U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips’ lawsuit to be included on the Dem presidential primary ballot in Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers signing legislation intended to increase dental care access and more.
The consultants didn’t include a recommendation of which Dem proposal they thought was superior.
State Rep. Katrina Shankland tells WisPolitics Capitol Chats that 3rd CD freshman Cong. Derrick Van Orden isn’t serving his constituents, arguing he has been in the news repeatedly for “all the wrong reasons.” Shankland is one of three Dems in the race to unseat the Prairie du Chien Republican.
The Dem governor had vowed to veto the maps when Republicans quickly pushed them through last week. The state Supreme Court is poised to pick new lines unless the guv and lawmakers could reach a deal.