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Gov. Scott Walker said today Republicans have reached a deal “in principle” on the state budget that would include a partial repeal of the personal property tax, saying he expects to sign the budget by Sept. 22, when summer ends.
The Joint Finance Committee will end a two-month break next week, coming in Tuesday for a public hearing on Foxconn and Thursday to take up several remaining pieces of the budget. Tuesday’s public hearing will be at Gateway Technical College
The Legislature’s top Republicans disagreed Tuesday on how to move forward with an incentive package for Foxconn, while Walker said he’s open to small changes to the legislation. Among the issues: how quickly to move the bill setting up $3
Assembly Republicans are planning a Thursday public hearing on legislation that could provide $3 billion in incentives to Foxconn for a planned Wisconsin plant. The timeline laid out during a news conference today would set up a vote by the
Senate leadership emerged from caucus cautious about the guv’s budget proposal, saying GOP senators are still wedded to the idea of eliminating the personal property tax. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said yesterday there’s still “no deal” yet on the
Assembly GOP leaders today notified Gov. Scott Walker they will accept his offer to redirect $203.5 million in income tax cuts he had proposed and instead pump new cash toward road projects over the next two years. But Senate Majority
Looking to break the budget impasse, Gov. Scott Walker has floated the possibility of nixing his income tax cuts and instead directing that money to transportation projects, according to multiple GOP sources. The sources said the motivation behind the suggestion
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told reporters Wednesday his caucus is taking its time to digest the Senate’s budget proposal but the Rochester Republican raised doubts about borrowing $712 million for roads. The Senate plan to borrow that amount goes above
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald Tuesday challenged Assembly Republicans to come up with something “palatable” that his caucus could support after unveiling a plan that would repeal the personal property tax, wipe out the guv’s income tax cuts and raise
Senate Republicans today proposed using the general fund and transportation revenues to cover borrowing $712 million to help pay for road construction over the next two years, laying down a marker in the ongoing budget impasse. Of that, $350 million
With the impasse over the state budget passing the two-week mark, Senate Republicans announced they will release their own proposal Tuesday. A spokeswoman for Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said the document was still being drafted by the Legislative Fiscal
A key piece of Gov. Scott Walker’s outline to break the budget impasse could include the state getting 10 times what it typically receives when the federal government redistributes unused federal transportation aid. In a letter to the Legislature’s top
Gov. Scott Walker has sent legislative leaders a letter proposing to reduce transportation borrowing by $200 million as part of a proposal to break a budget impasse. The guv also proposed an unspecified amount of contingency bonding for megaprojects in
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said today Republican budget negotiations are “back on track” after today’s meeting with the guv. Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, met with Gov. Scott Walker today as part of their weekly gathering
The Legislature’s top Republicans lobbed bombs at each other Tuesday over their remaining budget disputes in an unusual public airing of their differences. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, called Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’s position on transportation “laughable” as he
Joint Finance Committee Co-chair Alberta Darling said today top GOP leaders have a long way to go on reaching a consensus on transportation, another sign the budget won’t be completed by the end of the fiscal year on June 30.
Joint Finance Committee Co-chair John Nygren today confirmed that the Joint Finance Committee will not meet tomorrow. Nygren, R-Marinette, had last week told JFC members to keep their calendars for tomorrow open. But he told reporters this afternoon that he instead
GOP legislative leaders are still at an impasse on the transportation budget, although they’re confident they will strike a deal on K-12 education soon. Following a full day of meetings yesterday with top Republicans, as well as an additional meeting
GOP legislative leaders reported progress on hammering out a budget deal today but will meet again tomorrow as they work through major items like K-12 education, taxes and transportation. Participants’ spokespeople provided no specifics, though, and a notice for a
Senate and Assembly leaders are meeting tomorrow to hammer out differences over the budget’s remaining big-ticket items, ahead of a potential Joint Finance Committee meeting on Thursday. Co-chair John Nygren, R-Marinette, told members last week to keep Thursday open, but
