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Gov. Tony Evers signed the two-year budget Wednesday, but only after using his partial veto authority to pump nearly $87 million more into per-pupil school aid than what Republicans had proposed. Evers said he seriously considered vetoing the entire budget
Wisconsin governors have issued on average 137 partial vetoes to the budget bills that have reached their desk over the last 30 years, according to statistics from the Legislative Reference Bureau. That jumps to 242 partial vetoes during bienniums in
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos today said he wants the Assembly to look at legislation that would legalize medical marijuana when the body returns from its summer break in the fall. The Rochester Republican told reporters that he has long been
An hour after Tony Evers called for lawmakers to send him the budget, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said the “worst thing, I think, in the world” would be if the guv vetoed the entire thing. GOP lawmakers today touted
Senate Republicans today put the finishing touches on the GOP’s $81.7 billion version of the state budget after turning back a series of Dem amendments hoping to make the bill look more like the $83.8 billion plan Gov. Tony Evers
GOP state Sen. Chris Kapenga said today he will vote for the budget when it comes to the Senate floor. He also pushed back on criticism over a provision included in the document that was designed to help secure his
Assembly Republicans on Tuesday approved a $500 million boost for K-12 education over the next two years — about a third of what Tony Evers wanted — while hiking fees on drivers for more road work instead of the gas
Assembly Republicans are proposing an amendment to the budget that would add more assistant DA positions, allow car manufacturer Tesla to sell directly to consumers rather than through a dealer and provide towns an additional $5 million for roads. It
GOP state Sen. Andre Jacque said he’s received assurances from legislative leaders a coming budget amendment will add more assistant DA positions and an additional pay raise for prosecutors as part of his ask to secure his vote for the
Sen. David Craig today announced that he will vote against the budget crafted by the GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee. The Big Bend Republican broke the news while speaking to conservative talk show host Jay Weber on WISN-AM. “As the budget
Whitewater Republican Sen. Steve Nass today publicly announced he will vote against the budget approved by the GOP-led Joint Finance Committee last week. “I simply can’t deceive the taxpayers by voting for a budget that creates a significant structural deficit,
Property taxes on a median-value home would go up the same amount under the GOP’s budget plan as they would under Gov. Tony Evers’ original proposal, according to a Legislative Fiscal Bureau analysis. That’s despite JFC Republicans last week pumping
The Joint Finance Committee unanimously backed a plan to use additional revenue from online sales to reduce income taxes by another $136.1 million in tax year 2020 on top of what the committee added to the budget and existing law.
The GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee today added a package to the budget that would produce a net reduction in taxes of $378.6 million, including an income tax reduction that would average $75 per person. Separately, the committee was expected to
The Joint Finance Committee today plans to vote on more than $500 in tax cuts between a package Republicans plan to add to the budget and a separate bill on today’s agenda. The GOP tax motion introduced this morning includes
The Joint Finance Committee approved a nearly $1.9 billion capital budget Tuesday, paring back nearly $600 million that Gov. Tony Evers originally wanted to spend on building projects. More than $1 billion of the GOP capital budget, which was approved
The Joint Finance Committee signed off on extending the Stewardship Fund another two years through mid-2022, embracing Gov. Tony Evers’ original request for the program. But the motion cleared 12-4 along party lines after Evers tweeted ahead of the committee
The Joint Finance Committee voted to nix fee hikes Gov. Tony Evers proposed for those who operate large animal farms, pare back the additional positions he proposed to oversee them and funded the whole thing with a different approach. The
Republicans on the Legislature’s budget committee approved jacking up fees and eliminating breaks for retailers to help pump $483.7 million of new revenue into transportation over the next two years while borrowing an additional $326.2 million for projects. That’s in
The Joint Finance Committee approved a $10.1 million GPR boost to the Department of Justice that would include providing assistant attorneys general raises of 2 percent each in 2020 and 2021 while adding nine positions to the state crime lab.
