From WisPolitics … — Dem. Rep. Tip McGuire today asked why the Legislature should have the power to mandate the actions of local law enforcement on immigration enforcement. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos countered the mandates are necessary because some Wisconsin sheriffs haven’t been complying with federal law to notify Immigrations

From WisPolitics … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said today “all tax cuts are good,” but knocked Tony Evers’ approach, saying the Dem guv’s budget would actually raise costs for Wisconsinites.  In announcing his budget, Evers focused on some $2 billion in tax relief, from efforts to hold down local

From WisPolitics … — State Rep. Barb Dittrich, R-Oconomowoc, today reintroduced legislation to ban transgender women and girls from playing the team or sport that matches their gender identity.  The introduction comes after the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association changed its transgender athlete policy last week to comply with President Donald

Subscribers: We are sending this PM Update today instead of the usual REPORT, which will return next week. Thank you for subscribing! Political Stock Report–A collection of insider opinion–(Feb. 15 – Feb. 21, 2025) Rising Brad Schimel: The conservative candidate’s unabashed call for national groups to get involved in his

From WisPolitics … — A group tied to Elon Musk and another linked to the state’s largest business group are up with new TV ads today knocking Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford for sentences she’s handed out as a Dane County judge. Meanwhile, Musk’s America PAC has launched a $1

From WisPolitics … — The Assembly today approved 54-44 along party lines a bill to overhaul DPI standards that Republicans argue mask poor student performance.  Meanwhile, Democrats knocked the bill as politically motivated and said it wouldn’t help improve student achievement in the state.  AB 1 would reverse changes to

From WisPolitics … — Gov. Tony Evers tonight will call for $50 million to boost roads used by the ag industry, $300 million to get lead out of service lines, water fountains and childcare centers, and $2 billion in tax relief as he releases his fourth state budget. The guv

From WisPolitics … — Elon Musk’s Building America’s Future is going up on TV in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race later this week with at least $671,000 in ads statewide, part of a flurry of new activity that has tilted the spending advantage to conservative Brad Schimel. The Musk-aligned group is

From WisPolitics … — The Assembly Education Committee today approved 9-4 along party lines a bill to reverse state Superintendent Jill Underly’s overhaul of benchmarks for standardized test scores.  AB 1 would: reset report card standards to levels set in 2019-20; align grades 3-8 with national standards; and restore high

From WisPolitics … — Liberal Justice Janet Protasiewicz today rejected GOP calls to recuse from a lawsuit seeking to overturn Act 10, concluding she can be impartial despite previously saying she disagreed with a past Supreme Court ruling upholding the 2011 law. GOP lawmakers defending the law that stripped most

From WisPolitics … — Democrats at a committee hearing today voiced skepticism about a GOP bill to restrict remote work for state employees, while Republicans argued it’s a necessary step to ensure productivity. The bill was introduced after a 2023 Legislative Audit Bureau report found some state workers weren’t in

From WisPolitics … — Gov. Tony Evers and AG Josh Kaul joined a multi-state lawsuit today challenging cuts to medical research funding, calling it a “reckless” move by the Trump administration that will undermine efforts to cure diseases.  The National Institutes of Health announced Friday it is making cuts to

From WisPolitics … — Republican lawmakers at a hearing today argued the state’s previous standards for statewide tests must be restored, saying DPI’s changes inaccurately reflect student achievement.  State Superintendent Jill Underly, who leads the Department of Public Instruction and is campaigning for reelection now, commented ahead of the Assembly

From WisPolitics … — Dem Gov. Tony Evers today announced an $80 million budget package to back Wisconsin farmers, producers and processors. The package to be introduced in the guv’s budget on Feb. 18 includes $30 million in state funding for an effort Evers created in 2021 using federal COVID-19

From WisPolitics … — GOP Sen. Eric Wimberger suggested a budget proposal announced by Gov. Tony Evers to combat PFAS contamination is a concession to Republican lawmakers, but said he still has concerns about language to protect innocent landowners. Wimberger said Evers’ proposal is “an admission of what I’ve been

From WisPolitics … — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin today said President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China are “bad news” for consumers, manufacturers and farmers, arguing “everyone is going to pay more.”  The Madison Dem made the comments today after visiting the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy to

From WisPolitics … — Conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn ruled today he can’t hear a case before the Wisconsin Supreme Court on collective bargaining powers for public employees after he helped draft the law and later defended it while working for then-Gov. Scott Walker. Hagedorn, who served as Walker’s legal counsel,

From WisPolitics … — The GOP co-chairs of the Finance Committee again committed to pushing tax cuts in the upcoming budget after the Legislative Fiscal Bureau upped the state’s projected surplus for the 2023-25 biennium to $4.3 billion. Rep. Mark Born, R-Beaver Dam, and Sen. Howard Marklein, R-Spring Green, vowed

From WisPolitics … — The California AG today announced Wisconsin is one of 23 states suing to block implementation of a directive by the Trump administration to freeze certain federal spending as it reviews whether the outlays are in line with the president’s agenda. The attorneys general are seeking a