Returning from a two-month break, the Joint Finance Committee today went back to work on the state budget, unanimously rejecting Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to eliminate a program that seeks to encourage schools to buy locally sourced food. The committee’s

The Joint Finance Committee will be in Monday to take up public instruction, the choice program and the building program. Other items on Monday’s agenda include: the Building Commission, the school levy tax credit and the lottery fund. The five

The Joint Finance Committee will end a more than two-month break from the budget today with an agenda that includes the reorganization of the DNR, the repeal of the forestry mill tax and DATCP. The guv’s call to repeal the

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

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

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