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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.
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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.”

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.

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.

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.

On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss candidates’ closing arguments head of Tuesday’s election, highlights from the Marquette University Law School Poll, early voting data, legislative races to watch and more.

Donald Trump at a rally in Green Bay said his supporters are “far higher quality” than Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, and that the president and VP “hate the American people.” Meanwhile, Harris at a rally in Madison said Trump is “unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power.”

The Marquette University Law School Poll’s final look at the November election found nip-and-tuck races for president and the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, with voters having an increasingly negative view on the leading candidates in both contests.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Madison said Dems’ desire to keep him on the ballot in Wisconsin and Michigan was “election interference” and an attempt to “trick people voting for me instead of voting for Donald Trump.”

Both numbers in the most recent reporting period were driven by large donations and candidates in top races sending money to the caucuses, often as part of coordinated efforts on mail and ads.

The State Senate Democratic Committee has transferred $7.3 million to its candidates in four top races since mid-September, helping to fuel fundraising advantages over their GOP counterparts, according to new filings. Meanwhile, the Committee to Elect a Republican Senate has sent more than $2 million to its candidates in those races over the same period.

GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance at a Wausau rally said people “have to stop getting so offended at every little thing” after a speaker at a Trump-Vance campaign rally called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” Meanwhile, Dem vice presidential candidate Tim Walz slammed Donald Trump for “trash talking” the U.S.

Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says she’s prepared to vote to eliminate the filibuster in order to codify Roe v. Wade but would rather work to reform it instead. Meanwhile, Baldwin’s GOP challenger, Eric Hovde, says a Trump victory in Wisconsin would boost his chances in the razor-thin race.

On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the start of early voting, presidential candidate visits, lawsuits targeting Wisconsin elections and more.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss candidates’ closing arguments head of Tuesday’s election, highlights from the Marquette University Law School Poll, early voting data, legislative races to watch and more.

Donald Trump at a rally in Green Bay said his supporters are “far higher quality” than Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, and that the president and VP “hate the American people.” Meanwhile, Harris at a rally in Madison said Trump is “unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power.”

The Marquette University Law School Poll’s final look at the November election found nip-and-tuck races for president and the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, with voters having an increasingly negative view on the leading candidates in both contests.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Madison said Dems’ desire to keep him on the ballot in Wisconsin and Michigan was “election interference” and an attempt to “trick people voting for me instead of voting for Donald Trump.”

Both numbers in the most recent reporting period were driven by large donations and candidates in top races sending money to the caucuses, often as part of coordinated efforts on mail and ads.

The State Senate Democratic Committee has transferred $7.3 million to its candidates in four top races since mid-September, helping to fuel fundraising advantages over their GOP counterparts, according to new filings. Meanwhile, the Committee to Elect a Republican Senate has sent more than $2 million to its candidates in those races over the same period.

GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance at a Wausau rally said people “have to stop getting so offended at every little thing” after a speaker at a Trump-Vance campaign rally called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” Meanwhile, Dem vice presidential candidate Tim Walz slammed Donald Trump for “trash talking” the U.S.

Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says she’s prepared to vote to eliminate the filibuster in order to codify Roe v. Wade but would rather work to reform it instead. Meanwhile, Baldwin’s GOP challenger, Eric Hovde, says a Trump victory in Wisconsin would boost his chances in the razor-thin race.

On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the start of early voting, presidential candidate visits, lawsuits targeting Wisconsin elections and more.