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The Assembly approved 63-34 along party lines a $98.7 billion two-year budget that would pump more money into K-12 education, raises for state employees and transportation projects.
Senate Minority Leader Melissa Agard says her caucus is “disgusted and frustrated” after Republicans moved late last night to pave the way for a vote on whether Meagan Wolfe will continue to serve as Wisconsin’s top election official.
The GOP-controlled state Senate sought late Wednesday night to pull Meagan Wolfe’s position as the state’s top elections official before the body, even though the Elections Commission deadlocked on whether to renominate her as agency administrator.
The state would reduce income taxes by $3.5 billion, fund a boost in shared revenue and cut $32 million in state aid for the UW System under a $98.7 billion state budget that cleared the state Senate today.
The Senate today approved a bill to turn Wisconsin’s approach to literacy into a phonics-based program in an attempt to improve reading.
The state Elections Commission failed Tuesday evening to reach consensus on renominating Meagan Wolfe as Wisconsin’s top election official, which Dem appointees argued left her in the administrator’s job indefinitely.
The federal money announced Monday will be provided under the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment program created in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed by President Biden two years ago. The funding is part of more than $42 billion in grants across the country, according to a White House release.
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 says he is “hopeful sanity will prevail” as lawmakers are set to vote on the state budget this week, while declining to say whether he will veto the state budget if it comes to him as is.
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.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” CBS 58 Capitol Reporter Emilee Fannon and CBS 58’s A.J. Bayatpour discuss the Joint Finance Committee’s passage of the state budget, Gov. Tony Evers’ signing of the shared revenue bill and the Assembly’s passage of bills to overhaul alcohol regulations and change literacy instruction in K-12 schools.
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,
The Joint Finance Committee today voted 12-4 along party lines to approve a plan that would cut income taxes by $3.5 billion.
The Joint Finance Committee today voted 12-4 along party lines to increase state employee compensation by over $700 million.
The Joint Finance Committee this evening voted along party lines to cut $32 million from the UW System budget over its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, as Dems blasted the decision.
GOP lawmakers announced today they plan to pass a $3.5 billion income tax package that would drop Wisconsin to three tax brackets from four and reduce the rate of the top bracket by more than 1 percentage point.
Wisconsin’s balance was just more than $1.7 billion, which equated about 8.9 percent of general fund expenditures in the 2021-22 fiscal year. To reach the median percent of 11.6 percent, Wisconsin would’ve needed an additional $525 million in the fund.
The Assembly did not take up a bill that was on today’s calendar to move the Wisconsin Technical College System off the property tax rolls and replace that money with more state aid. AB 2 was initially introduced to repeal the personal property tax, but the shared revenue bill Evers signed this week included a provision to eliminate the tax.
The Assembly today approved 90-4 legislation to overhaul Wisconsin’s three-tiered alcohol industry and create a new Division of Alcohol Beverages within the Department of Revenue.
The Assembly 82-11 today passed a bill to allow pharmacists to prescribe birth control pills without a doctor’s approval. AB 176 now heads to the Senate for consideration.
The Assembly approved 63-34 along party lines a $98.7 billion two-year budget that would pump more money into K-12 education, raises for state employees and transportation projects.
Senate Minority Leader Melissa Agard says her caucus is “disgusted and frustrated” after Republicans moved late last night to pave the way for a vote on whether Meagan Wolfe will continue to serve as Wisconsin’s top election official.
The GOP-controlled state Senate sought late Wednesday night to pull Meagan Wolfe’s position as the state’s top elections official before the body, even though the Elections Commission deadlocked on whether to renominate her as agency administrator.
The state would reduce income taxes by $3.5 billion, fund a boost in shared revenue and cut $32 million in state aid for the UW System under a $98.7 billion state budget that cleared the state Senate today.
The Senate today approved a bill to turn Wisconsin’s approach to literacy into a phonics-based program in an attempt to improve reading.
The state Elections Commission failed Tuesday evening to reach consensus on renominating Meagan Wolfe as Wisconsin’s top election official, which Dem appointees argued left her in the administrator’s job indefinitely.
The federal money announced Monday will be provided under the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment program created in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed by President Biden two years ago. The funding is part of more than $42 billion in grants across the country, according to a White House release.
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 says he is “hopeful sanity will prevail” as lawmakers are set to vote on the state budget this week, while declining to say whether he will veto the state budget if it comes to him as is.
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.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” CBS 58 Capitol Reporter Emilee Fannon and CBS 58’s A.J. Bayatpour discuss the Joint Finance Committee’s passage of the state budget, Gov. Tony Evers’ signing of the shared revenue bill and the Assembly’s passage of bills to overhaul alcohol regulations and change literacy instruction in K-12 schools.
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 approve a plan that would cut income taxes by $3.5 billion.
The Joint Finance Committee today voted 12-4 along party lines to increase state employee compensation by over $700 million.
The Joint Finance Committee this evening voted along party lines to cut $32 million from the UW System budget over its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, as Dems blasted the decision.
GOP lawmakers announced today they plan to pass a $3.5 billion income tax package that would drop Wisconsin to three tax brackets from four and reduce the rate of the top bracket by more than 1 percentage point.
Wisconsin’s balance was just more than $1.7 billion, which equated about 8.9 percent of general fund expenditures in the 2021-22 fiscal year. To reach the median percent of 11.6 percent, Wisconsin would’ve needed an additional $525 million in the fund.
The Assembly did not take up a bill that was on today’s calendar to move the Wisconsin Technical College System off the property tax rolls and replace that money with more state aid. AB 2 was initially introduced to repeal the personal property tax, but the shared revenue bill Evers signed this week included a provision to eliminate the tax.
The Assembly today approved 90-4 legislation to overhaul Wisconsin’s three-tiered alcohol industry and create a new Division of Alcohol Beverages within the Department of Revenue.
The Assembly 82-11 today passed a bill to allow pharmacists to prescribe birth control pills without a doctor’s approval. AB 176 now heads to the Senate for consideration.