DHS Sec. Palm defends Medicaid expansion

Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee today grilled Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm on the plan to accept the federal Medicaid expansion, a proposal Palm said is the center of her agency’s budget. Gov. Tony Evers’ budget calls for expanding

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GOP JFC members pepper DPI superintendent with questions

Republican members of the Joint Finance Committee on Wednesday peppered DPI Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor with questions about the guv’s education proposal, questioning if the state can afford the proposed $1.4 billion increase for public schools. But prompted by questions

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WED News Summary: Hagedorn declares victory in close Supreme Court race; McGuire wins 64th AD Dem primary

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MON News Summary: Fight continues over Walker appointees; preview of state Supreme Court race

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DHS Sec. Palm defends Medicaid expansion

Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee today grilled Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm on the plan to accept the federal Medicaid expansion, a proposal Palm said is the center of her agency’s budget. Gov. Tony Evers’ budget calls for expanding to cover people whose income was up to 130 percent

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WED PM Update: Hagedorn says his lead in Supreme Court race appears ‘insurmountable,’ Neubauer urges backers to ‘stick with me’

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — With a potential recount on the horizon, Appeals Court Judge Brian Hagedorn described his nearly 6,000 vote lead in the Supreme Court race as “insurmountable.” Hagedorn told reporters during a press conference in Pewaukee today that a few days back people on

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GOP JFC members pepper DPI superintendent with questions

Republican members of the Joint Finance Committee on Wednesday peppered DPI Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor with questions about the guv’s education proposal, questioning if the state can afford the proposed $1.4 billion increase for public schools. But prompted by questions from Dem members, Taylor said simply maintaining current funding levels

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JFC members lay down early markers in coming budget battle

Members of the Joint Finance Committee drew early battle lines Wednesday as they kicked off the first agency briefings of Gov. Tony Evers’ $84 billion budget. JFC Co-chair Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, started today’s hearing by knocking Evers for proposing tax hikes in his budget after saying in the waning

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WED News Summary: Hagedorn declares victory in close Supreme Court race; McGuire wins 64th AD Dem primary

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WED AM Update: Hagedorn declares Supreme Court win as possible recount looms

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges & Universities From WisPolitics.com … — Conservative Brian Hagedorn declared victory early today in a razor-thin race with fellow Appeals Court Judge Lisa Neubauer to become Wisconsin’s next Supreme Court justice. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, The Associated Press

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TUE News Summary: LFB projects Evers’ budget could create nearly $2B shortfall in 2021-23

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MON PM Update: Republicans ask appeals court to restore appointments

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — GOP lawmakers today asked an appeals court to restore all of the appointments Tony Evers sought to rescind after a Dane County judge threw out their confirmations. In the filing, the GOP attorney charged the guv had willfully violated the appeals court’s

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MON News Summary: Fight continues over Walker appointees; preview of state Supreme Court race

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MON AM Update: Independent groups continue pouring money into Supreme Court race; Steineke, Pocan on ‘UpFront’

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The conservative Republican State Leadership Committee is up to nearly $1.2 million spent on the state Supreme Court race as independent groups exert heavy influence on tomorrow’s election. American Majority Action and Wisconsin Right to Life PAC are

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FRI News Summary: Evers re-appoints most board members Walker selected; bill would delay Lincoln Hills closure by 6 months

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Upcoming WisPolitics.com events in Madison and Milwaukee include: *An April 4 Milwaukee University Club luncheon. The event focuses on new developments in the complicated issues affecting Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes. Speakers include PETER ANNIN, author of “The Great Lakes Water Wars”; MOLLY FLANAGAN,

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FRI AM Update: Wisconsin waiting for federal guidance after judge blocks Medicaid work requirements in two states

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin’s work requirements for some Medicaid recipients are still in force despite a federal judge blocking Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas, according to state Medicaid Director Jim Jones. Jones, speaking yesterday at a WisPolitics.com forum on

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THU PM Update: Evers re-appoints 67 after lame-duck ruling

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Tony Evers today moved to re-appoint many of the people he sought to pull off state boards and commissions last week even as the attorney for GOP lawmakers suggested the guv was violating an “unambiguous court order” in doing so. In all,

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