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 Evers Submits Compromise COVID Bill to State Legislature
Picture taken from Flickr under the Creative Commons License. Yesterday, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers announced a compromise COVID-19 relief bill. The new proposal would cost $100 million, much less than Evers’ $541 million proposal announced in November. That same day, Governor Evers sent a memo to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos highlighting some of the areas […]
Wisconsin Joint Finance Guts Governor Evers’ Budget
On May 9, the Wisconsin Joint Finance Committee voted 11-4, along party lines, to strip Medicaid expansion and 131 policy items from Governor Tony Ever’s proposed budget. The move blows a 1.4 billion dollar hole in the state biennial fiscal plan, which Republicans will have to find a way to close. In addition, the vote […]
Senate Ditches Changes to Wisconsin Retirement System
MADISON (WORT) — Yet another controversial provision in the last-minute budget package known as Motion 999 has been taken out of the state budget.
Bill Lueders: GOP Retreat from Open Records Law Changes
MADISON (WORT) — To find out more about the now-thwarted plan by Walker and his GOP allies to eviscerate the state’s open records law, Dylan Brogan talked to Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council president Bill Lueders.
