From WisPolitics … — Gov. Tony Evers says he won’t sign the next state budget if a GOP proposal requiring state employees back in the office is included in the final proposal. “No, no, no. It’s working,” Evers said in a wide-ranging interview on WISN’s “UpFront,” which is produced in

From WisPolitics … — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin reported nearly $59.6 million in receipts for the six-year cycle as she successfully won a third term by nearly 29,000 votes. Meanwhile, GOP challenger Eric Hovde raised $31.8 million from the time he got into the race in February through the Nov.

From WisPolitics … — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin told a WisPolitics DC luncheon that some of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are “very troubling.”  But the Madison Dem also said at yesterday’s event that she’s “excited” at the prospect of seeing a fellow Wisconsinite — former GOP U.S. Rep. Sean

From WisPolitics … — Gov. Tony Evers wants to deliver the State of the State Jan. 22 or Jan. 28 and then follow up with his budget address on either Feb. 25 or March 4. Evers yesterday sent a letter to Senate President Mary Felzkowski, R-Tomahawk, and Assembly Speaker Robin

From WisPolitics … — The Dane County judge who restored collective bargaining powers to public employees who lost them under Act 10 says he didn’t address whether to stay his ruling because GOP lawmakers hadn’t yet asked him to. Judge Jacob Frost yesterday struck down key components of the 2011

From WisPolitics … — Former Justice David Prosser, who served as GOP speaker of the state Assembly before his 18-year career on the state Supreme Court, died yesterday. He was 81. State GOP Chair Brian Schimming, who served as Prosser’s chief of staff while he led the Assembly for the

Subscribers: Today’s News Summary will be the final product of the week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Normal delivery will resume Monday. Thank you for subscribing! From WisPolitics … — An assistant attorney general argued GOP state Rep. Janel Brandtjen can’t offer “any actual support for her position” that the

From WisPolitics … — The Wisconsin Hospital Association announced today President and CEO Eric Borgerding will retire next year after 10 years of leading the group. He will be succeeded by WHA Senior Vice President of Government Relations Kyle O’Brien. Borgerding, who has been with the group for 23 years,

From WisPolitics … — Wisconsin Dem Chair Ben Wikler will make a decision shortly after Thanksgiving about whether to seek to lead the national party, according to a source familiar with his thinking. So far, Minnesota Dem Party Chair Ken Martin and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley have both formally

From WisPolitics … — State and local taxes in 2022 totaled 9.9% of personal income, a record low that was driven by rising incomes, state caps on property taxes and an income tax cut, according to the Wisconsin Policy Forum. That dropped Wisconsin to the 35th highest state and local

From WisPolitics … — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says she didn’t vote for or against three resolutions seeking to block arm sales to Israel because neither “captures my goals of both supporting Israel’s right to defend themself and protecting the lives of innocent Palestinians.” Baldwin, D-Madison, was the only member

From WisPolitics … — Vaccination rates among Wisconsin kindergarteners have recovered somewhat from pandemic lows but remain below pre-pandemic levels, new CDC figures show.  Between 2018-2019 and 2023-2024, the percentage of kindergarteners in the state that have received the DTP, DTaP or DT vaccine for diphtheria has fallen from 96.2%

From WisPolitics … — Former GOP U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy is promising to help President-elect Trump to “usher in a new golden age of transportation” after he was nominated to join the cabinet. Trump late yesterday afternoon announced he had tapped Duffy for Transportation secretary, saying the former 7th CD

From WisPolitics … — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said he’s spoken with GOP Senate candidate Eric Hovde in recent days about whether he will concede the race to Sen. Tammy Baldwin or request a recount. “Those would be confidential conversations,” Johnson said on WISN’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership

From WisPolitics … — The state Elections Commission is pushing back on claims GOP Senate candidate Eric Hovde made about the Nov. 5 election. The commission has maintained a page at its website to refute claims about Wisconsin elections. Yesterday, the agency added four more fact checks, including three directly

From WisPolitics … — Marquette University Law School Poll Director Charles Franklin cautions against calling Donald Trump’s win a “landslide.” “This is a very consequential outcome, but to call it a ‘wave election,’ or worse, a ‘landslide election,’ I think, really ignores the closeness that is still an important part

From WisPolitics … — GOP businessman Eric Hovde denied to WisPolitics that he’s been advised by attorney John Eastman, who’s been disbarred for false election claims, as he considers his next steps in Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race. Hovde yesterday posted a more than 4-minute video on X in which he

From WisPolitics … — Assembly Republicans and Senate Dems meet today for leadership elections with a handful of contested races. Rep. Scott Krug, of Nekoosh, and Shae Sortwell, of Two Rivers, both circulated letters last week indicating plans to run for assistant majority leader. Rep. Jon Plumer, R-Lodi, served in

From WisPolitics … — 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. “I’ll be involved in things here and there,” president and chief strategist for

From WisPolitics … — Rep. Greta Neubauer told WisPolitics she will seek another term as Assembly minority leader, saying Dems laid the foundation this week to flip the chamber in 2026. She also rejected Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ charge that Dems attacked GOP candidates with lies this fall, while slamming