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The GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee approved a $2.3 billion capital budget this evening, greatly scaling back what Dem Gov. Tony Evers had proposed.
The state would spend an additional $45.5 million to promote the state and try to land major events over the next two years, under a motion the Joint Finance Committee approved. That pot of money includes $2 million to help the Green Bay Packers put on the 2025 NFL draft.
The Joint Finance Committee passed today on putting new state money into broadband expansion grants as majority Republicans said they planned to rely on coming federal dollars instead for the work.
Wisconsin’s House delegation split over a bill to lift the debt ceiling with Dems Gwen Moore and Mark Pocan joining Republican Tom Tiffany in opposition to the bill GOP leaders negotiated with the White House.
Republicans have introduced a package of bills to clarify miscarriage treatment and other procedures are not outlawed by Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban.
The state’s largest business group is threatening to go to court to block regulations that would force stricter limits on surface water pollution.
Green Bay Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy says he’s had initial conversations with some state lawmakers about the proposal to use $2 million in state money to help pay for costs associated with Green Bay hosting the 2025 NFL Draft.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest Joint Finance Committee actions on the state budget, negotiations over Republicans’ shared revenue and sales tax proposal, the Green Bay Packers’ ask for state money to help with hosting the 2025 NFL Draft and more.
Ten of 13 UW System campuses are facing deficits in their tuition funds, according to data shared by the system.
WEDC would have to find $4 million in its existing appropriations to cover efforts to attract and retain talent, under a motion the Joint Finance Committee approved along party lines.
The Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to pay for new technology at the Department of Revenue to improve delinquent tax collections. The committee also passed on Gov. Tony Evers’ call to add auditor positions at the agency’s debt collection operation. Also, the committee decided to keep 38 auditors as project positions rather than making them permanent jobs.
The Legislative Audit Bureau found DHS failed during the pandemic to execute appropriate agreements on ventilators it loaned providers and didn’t properly track the equipment.
A co-author of a GOP shared revenue proposal encouraged compromise on the bill during a hearing Tuesday, while Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson called for lawmakers to eliminate provisions restricting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
The Joint Finance Committee voted today to require the Department of Veterans Affairs to hire an outside contractor to study the troubled State Veterans Home at King to find ways to improve residents’ quality of life.
The Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to increase state funding for youth apprenticeship grants and career and technical education programs in school districts to help address the state’s workforce shortage.
Sen. Dan Knodl, chair of the Senate’s Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection Committee, tells WisPolitics he’s keeping an open mind on whether to require Milwaukee County and the city to get voter permission to impose new sales taxes.
Wisconsin GOP U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson called the debt limit deadline “a phony crisis” while Dem Sen. Tammy Baldwin said, “We cannot default.”
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in the negotiations over the GOP shared revenue bill, Joint Finance Committee approval of pay raises for state prosecutors and public defenders, along with $125 million to fight PFAS, and new GOP legislation to tackle the state’s housing shortage.
The Joint Finance Committee late Thursday approved investing $125 million to combat PFAS — but left the details of how to spend the money for a trailer bill introduced just this week.
Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said today his caucus will likely drop a requirement that Milwaukee County and the city approve a new sales tax via referendum as part of the GOP shared revenue bill.
The GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee approved a $2.3 billion capital budget this evening, greatly scaling back what Dem Gov. Tony Evers had proposed.
The state would spend an additional $45.5 million to promote the state and try to land major events over the next two years, under a motion the Joint Finance Committee approved. That pot of money includes $2 million to help the Green Bay Packers put on the 2025 NFL draft.
The Joint Finance Committee passed today on putting new state money into broadband expansion grants as majority Republicans said they planned to rely on coming federal dollars instead for the work.
Wisconsin’s House delegation split over a bill to lift the debt ceiling with Dems Gwen Moore and Mark Pocan joining Republican Tom Tiffany in opposition to the bill GOP leaders negotiated with the White House.
Republicans have introduced a package of bills to clarify miscarriage treatment and other procedures are not outlawed by Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban.
The state’s largest business group is threatening to go to court to block regulations that would force stricter limits on surface water pollution.
Green Bay Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy says he’s had initial conversations with some state lawmakers about the proposal to use $2 million in state money to help pay for costs associated with Green Bay hosting the 2025 NFL Draft.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest Joint Finance Committee actions on the state budget, negotiations over Republicans’ shared revenue and sales tax proposal, the Green Bay Packers’ ask for state money to help with hosting the 2025 NFL Draft and more.
Ten of 13 UW System campuses are facing deficits in their tuition funds, according to data shared by the system.
WEDC would have to find $4 million in its existing appropriations to cover efforts to attract and retain talent, under a motion the Joint Finance Committee approved along party lines.
The Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to pay for new technology at the Department of Revenue to improve delinquent tax collections. The committee also passed on Gov. Tony Evers’ call to add auditor positions at the agency’s debt collection operation. Also, the committee decided to keep 38 auditors as project positions rather than making them permanent jobs.
The Legislative Audit Bureau found DHS failed during the pandemic to execute appropriate agreements on ventilators it loaned providers and didn’t properly track the equipment.
A co-author of a GOP shared revenue proposal encouraged compromise on the bill during a hearing Tuesday, while Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson called for lawmakers to eliminate provisions restricting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
The Joint Finance Committee voted today to require the Department of Veterans Affairs to hire an outside contractor to study the troubled State Veterans Home at King to find ways to improve residents’ quality of life.
The Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to increase state funding for youth apprenticeship grants and career and technical education programs in school districts to help address the state’s workforce shortage.
Sen. Dan Knodl, chair of the Senate’s Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection Committee, tells WisPolitics he’s keeping an open mind on whether to require Milwaukee County and the city to get voter permission to impose new sales taxes.
Wisconsin GOP U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson called the debt limit deadline “a phony crisis” while Dem Sen. Tammy Baldwin said, “We cannot default.”
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in the negotiations over the GOP shared revenue bill, Joint Finance Committee approval of pay raises for state prosecutors and public defenders, along with $125 million to fight PFAS, and new GOP legislation to tackle the state’s housing shortage.
The Joint Finance Committee late Thursday approved investing $125 million to combat PFAS — but left the details of how to spend the money for a trailer bill introduced just this week.
Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said today his caucus will likely drop a requirement that Milwaukee County and the city approve a new sales tax via referendum as part of the GOP shared revenue bill.