Today, Governor Tony Evers made his deadline, and signed into law Wisconsin’s next state budget. The Republican-authored spending plan, which clocks in at more than $87 billion, largely made it past the governor intact. Evers used his veto power on fifty relatively minor provisions. Despite signing the budget, Evers said at a press conference in […]
Finance Committee continues hashing out state budget
Yesterday morning, the state legislature’s nonpartisan fiscal bureau announced that Wisconsin is set to take in 4.4 billion dollars more in tax collections over the next three years than originally anticipated. The battle over how to use that money is just beginning. But, the infusion isn’t stopping the Republican-controlled finance committee from slashing Governor Tony […]
State budget committee to weigh school spending priorities
Tomorrow, Wisconsin’s Budget-writing Finance Committee will take up spending priorities for the state’s public and private schools and the University of Wisconsin system. Since shredding the Governor’s proposed biennial budget earlier this month, the Republican-controlled body has spent the past three weeks rebuilding the spending plan from scratch. For more, our producer Jonah Chester spoke […]
Amid protests, budget committee shreds Evers’ proposals
As the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee was poised to strip hundreds of Governor Evers’ proposals from the next state budget today, folks from across the state crowded inside the Capitol in protest. During today’s action, organized by Voces de la Frontera, roughly 200 activists crowded into a narrow hallway outside a committee room where the […]
State finance committee hosts virtual input session on 2021-2023 state...
Today, Wisconsin’s powerful budget-writing Joint Finance Committee (JFC) held its fourth and final public hearing on the upcoming biennial budget. The GOP-led legislative body plays a major role in rewriting and altering the state’s budget. Today’s session was the only virtual public hearing on Governor Tony Evers’ $91 billion dollar spending plan. Registration for the […]
Governor proposes $4 million to support new historical society museum
The Wisconsin Historical Society’s flagship museum is currently located in a former hardware store at the top of State Street. The Society’s leadership has long advocated for remodels of the dated facility. “Wisconsin has so many important stories to tell the world, but the Society is unable to effectively share them because of the space […]
