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U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan says Republicans who voted in favor of a debt limit bill promising future spending cuts are trying to get away with “having their cake and eating it too.”
The Assembly has approved 56-36 a revised version of Republicans’ shared revenue plan after Speaker Robin Vos said his caucus is “done negotiating.”
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to “Marsy’s Law,” finding the constitutional amendment was properly presented to voters as they expanded the rights of crime victims.
The Joint Finance Committee voted unanimously today to give state prosecutors and public defenders a pay raise of $8.76 an hour — equal to $18,221 a year — as both fight vacancy rates that advocates say have led to slowdowns in the criminal justice system.
One of Wisconsin’s largest dairy farms has agreed to stop spreading liquid manure in exchange for avoiding groundwater monitoring standards.
The Legislative Fiscal Bureau today projected state tax collections through mid-2025 would come in $755.1 million lower than what the agency expected just four months ago.
Jim Palmer, executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, said Gov. Tony Evers and GOP leaders need to “resolve their differences” and pass a shared revenue bill.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss new laws Gov. Tony Evers signed to crack down on reckless driving and carjacking, committee shuffling with the new Senate GOP supermajority, shared revenue negotiations, the UW System eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion statements for employment, and more.
An Assembly committee has OK’d along party lines a GOP-authored shared revenue bill, even as Republicans noted the legislation will be revised before it hits the floor next week.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, is knocking Gov. Tony Evers for appointing former Dem U.S. Senate candidate Alex Lasry to the Wisconsin Technical College System Board.
U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher says defense cuts are off the table to satisfy future spending cut requirements in a Republican debt limit bill, but there is room for more efficiency. The Allouez Republican House Armed Services Committee member in a phone interview with WisPolitics said he doubts any real defense budget cuts would pass the Republican-controlled House. The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party chair added there are ways to ramp up defense spending while prioritizing where the funds go to increase deterrents against China.
Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu has appointed Sen. Dan Knodl to lead a new committee as he reworks membership on others to reflect the GOP’s new supermajority in the chamber. Knodl, who was sworn in last week, will chair the newly created Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection Committee.
A Dane County judge says he will order the Wisconsin Elections Commission to rehear a complaint against Republicans who presented a false slate of electors in 2020.
Dem state Sen. LaTonya Johnson said Gov. Tony Evers should veto the shared revenue bill if dramatic changes aren’t made, a move he promised last week. Meanwhile, GOP state Rep. Tony Kurtz, one of the authors of the shared revenue legislation, says “the bill as written will be changing.”
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Republicans’ shared revenue bill and Gov. Tony Evers’ veto threat, the Joint Finance Committee nixing 545 items from Evers’ budget, the lawsuit challenging the state 1849 abortion ban and more.
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson argued the Common Council should vote on the proposed 2 percent sales tax bump in the GOP shared revenue bill rather than sending the question to voters in a referendum.
The Joint Finance Committee today voted to invest $7 million in state money to help produce more psychiatrists and another $2 million to expand programs that help teach effective parenting techniques and seek to prevent child abuse. The $7 million
Gov. Tony Evers threatened today to veto a GOP shared revenue bill, saying it doesn’t send enough resources to local governments and includes too many restrictions on how they operate.
Republicans’ shared revenue bill would allow municipalities to cite the number of citations for moving violations or arrests for breaking local ordinances in the previous year to meet requirements for additional state aid. That’s even though state law bars state agencies or municipalities from requiring a law enforcement officer to meet a quota for traffic violation citations.
The two main architects of legislation to significantly boost shared revenue while allowing Milwaukee County and the city to add new sales taxes told WisPolitics talks on final details are ongoing.
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan says Republicans who voted in favor of a debt limit bill promising future spending cuts are trying to get away with “having their cake and eating it too.”
The Assembly has approved 56-36 a revised version of Republicans’ shared revenue plan after Speaker Robin Vos said his caucus is “done negotiating.”
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to “Marsy’s Law,” finding the constitutional amendment was properly presented to voters as they expanded the rights of crime victims.
The Joint Finance Committee voted unanimously today to give state prosecutors and public defenders a pay raise of $8.76 an hour — equal to $18,221 a year — as both fight vacancy rates that advocates say have led to slowdowns in the criminal justice system.
One of Wisconsin’s largest dairy farms has agreed to stop spreading liquid manure in exchange for avoiding groundwater monitoring standards.
The Legislative Fiscal Bureau today projected state tax collections through mid-2025 would come in $755.1 million lower than what the agency expected just four months ago.
Jim Palmer, executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, said Gov. Tony Evers and GOP leaders need to “resolve their differences” and pass a shared revenue bill.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss new laws Gov. Tony Evers signed to crack down on reckless driving and carjacking, committee shuffling with the new Senate GOP supermajority, shared revenue negotiations, the UW System eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion statements for employment, and more.
An Assembly committee has OK’d along party lines a GOP-authored shared revenue bill, even as Republicans noted the legislation will be revised before it hits the floor next week.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, is knocking Gov. Tony Evers for appointing former Dem U.S. Senate candidate Alex Lasry to the Wisconsin Technical College System Board.
U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher says defense cuts are off the table to satisfy future spending cut requirements in a Republican debt limit bill, but there is room for more efficiency. The Allouez Republican House Armed Services Committee member in a phone interview with WisPolitics said he doubts any real defense budget cuts would pass the Republican-controlled House. The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party chair added there are ways to ramp up defense spending while prioritizing where the funds go to increase deterrents against China.
Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu has appointed Sen. Dan Knodl to lead a new committee as he reworks membership on others to reflect the GOP’s new supermajority in the chamber. Knodl, who was sworn in last week, will chair the newly created Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection Committee.
A Dane County judge says he will order the Wisconsin Elections Commission to rehear a complaint against Republicans who presented a false slate of electors in 2020.
Dem state Sen. LaTonya Johnson said Gov. Tony Evers should veto the shared revenue bill if dramatic changes aren’t made, a move he promised last week. Meanwhile, GOP state Rep. Tony Kurtz, one of the authors of the shared revenue legislation, says “the bill as written will be changing.”
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Republicans’ shared revenue bill and Gov. Tony Evers’ veto threat, the Joint Finance Committee nixing 545 items from Evers’ budget, the lawsuit challenging the state 1849 abortion ban and more.
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson argued the Common Council should vote on the proposed 2 percent sales tax bump in the GOP shared revenue bill rather than sending the question to voters in a referendum.
The Joint Finance Committee today voted to invest $7 million in state money to help produce more psychiatrists and another $2 million to expand programs that help teach effective parenting techniques and seek to prevent child abuse. The $7 million for the Medical College of Wisconsin matches the amount of
Gov. Tony Evers threatened today to veto a GOP shared revenue bill, saying it doesn’t send enough resources to local governments and includes too many restrictions on how they operate.
Republicans’ shared revenue bill would allow municipalities to cite the number of citations for moving violations or arrests for breaking local ordinances in the previous year to meet requirements for additional state aid. That’s even though state law bars state agencies or municipalities from requiring a law enforcement officer to meet a quota for traffic violation citations.
The two main architects of legislation to significantly boost shared revenue while allowing Milwaukee County and the city to add new sales taxes told WisPolitics talks on final details are ongoing.