Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee approved putting an additional $500 million into K-12 education over the next two years as Dems slammed the plan as embarrassingly inadequate, particularly on special education.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said Republicans are headed in a similar direction after his Assembly colleagues unveiled a $500 million plan for K-12 education. But Dem members of the Joint

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan today called on fellow members of Congress to open impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. The Town of Vermont Dem cited Trump’s resistance to complying with Congressional subpoenas

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — GOP legislative leaders are considering splitting the budget into two bills — one that would outline spending and the other containing policy — in an attempt to get around the guv’s partial

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Board members for the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. have begun visiting the Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant in recent days, with trips continuing into next week. The trips mark the first time

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Flanked by lawmakers, law enforcement officials and advocates, AG Josh Kaul and Gov. Tony Evers announced the state has today filed a lawsuit alleging subsidiaries of Purdue Pharma fueled the opioid epidemic

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Flush with an unexpected boost of $753 million, Gov. Tony Evers today said he will use some of the money to pay down debt while calling on lawmakers to invest more in

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Vice President Pence will visit an industrial supplier and distributor in Eau Claire on Thursday to tout the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact the White House is trying to get through Congress. It will

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The state GOP overpaid for services in 2018 and was overly reliant on consultants as it essentially outsourced management of the party to Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign, according to a postmortem it

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — In the midst of a heated gubernatorial campaign, Tony Evers made virtually no changes to his finances, according to investment disclosures filed with the state Ethics Commission. Evers’ most recent Statement of

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Republicans today took aim at Gov. Tony Evers and Department of Corrections Secretary Kevin Carr over what they labeled as a “fundamentally unfair” program to boost pay for correctional officers at

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The first motion the Joint Finance Committee plans to take up Thursday would result in the general fund seeing $1.4 billion less over the next two years than what Gov. Tony Evers

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers said today he’s not giving up on his proposal to expand Medicaid despite JFC Republicans’ plan to pull it from the budget, but he stopped short of saying he

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee’s first actions on Gov. Tony Evers’ budget May 9 will be to pull out a host of his priorities, from expanding Medicaid to allowing illegal immigrants to get