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Wisconsin committee approves surplus spending bill

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s Joint Finance Committee approved a bill on Tuesday with a 12-4 vote that will increase state special education funding, provide tax rebate checks...

New Wisconsin leadership in 2027 will determine use for projected $2.7B surplus

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin is projected to have a $2.7 billion surplus by the end of the current two-year budget cycle is complete and now lawmakers will wait until next year...

Wisconsin Senate votes down budget surplus bill passed by Assembly

(The Center Square) – The Wisconsin Senate voted 18-15 against a bill that was approved by the Assembly after a 10-hour recess on Wednesday night. The Assembly appr...

Wisconsin’s $1.8 billion budget deal collapses, exposing rifts within both parties

Wisconsin leaders reach deal on education funding, tax refunds and more

(The Center Square) – Gov. Tony Evers and Republican legislative leaders announced a deal that will send $600 million more to Wisconsin K-12 schools, ends income tax on cash tips a...

Wisconsin State Assembly Floor Session

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Weekly GOP radio address: Senate Democrats buck Governor Evers and fail Wisconsin families

This week, we saw the worst of Madison politics. The state government currently has a $2.5 billion surplus. That’s $2.5 billion of your money sitting in a Madison bank account as r...

Wisconsin Association of School Boards: Statement on state budget surplus deal announcement

We commend Governor Evers and legislative leaders from both parties for working together in a bipartisan manner to reach this $1.8 billion agreement to use state surplus dollars to...

13.7% April Wisconsin tax collections increase led to higher revenue estimate

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin collected $2.4 billion in general purpose revenue taxes in April, a 13.7% increase from the year before. Those numbers matched the r...

Wisconsin State Senate Floor Session

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Rep. Jenna Jacobson: Sounds alarm on natural resource funding

MADISON-Today, Representative Jenna Jacobson (D-Oregon) released the following statement after the failure by Legislative Republicans to release funding for planned fish stocking,...

Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities: Statement on special session bill

Last night the State Senate voted against passing the special session bill that would have spent down state savings, reduced the amount of income the state uses to pay its bills, a...

Rep. Madison: Votes ‘no’ on lame duck surplus legislation

Bill spends most of state’s temporary $2.3B surplus on bad tax policy, unfair K-12 school funding system MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin’s legislature met today to consider LRB-6707/1, a...

Will Wisconsin have to wait until 2027 for tax and school relief?

The rejection of a surplus spending plan takes Wisconsin lawmakers back to the negotiating table, but will they show up? Struggling school districts hope so. The post Will Wiscons...

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, GOP leaders announce deal on tax relief and school funding

Rep. Udell: Votes against surplus spending proposal

MADISON, Wis. — This week, Governor Evers and Republican Legislative Leaders announced a spending deal that would use $1.8 billion of Wisconsin’s $2.5 billion surplus. The largest...

Sen. Nass: Evers-Vos II mysterious deal to spend $1.8 billion using projected revenues

Nass:  Politicians throwing around big numbers, but short on detail. Senator Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) issued the following statement regarding Governor Evers announcement of anoth...

‘No gimmicks’: WI Dems push bill to curb voucher spending, boost public schools

Wisconsin Democrats continue to push a school funding proposal that increases aid by $1.3 million and consciously avoids funding private schools. The post ‘No gimmicks’: WI Dems pu...

Medicaid cuts’ impact to cost Wisconsin $7 billion in 10 years, advocacy group says

A new report forecasts that changes to Medicaid enacted in 2025 will cut $7 billion from the program in Wisconsin alone over the next 10 years, according to the advocacy group Prot...

Roys campaign: Rejects backroom deal

“Today, Tony Evers and Wisconsin Republicans have emerged from behind a curtain with a proposal to spend the state’s projected surplus before it actually materializes and almost gu...

Rep. Callahan: Votes for bipartisan surplus deal, school funding and tax relief

[Madison, WI] Rep. Callahan voted in favor of a bipartisan deal struck between Governor Evers and the GOP Legislature to use the state’s budget surplus to fund special education, p...

Gov. Tony Evers and GOP announce $1.8 billion tax relief and school funding deal

Gov. Tony Evers, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg) — Wisconsin’s three leaders all of whom are set to retire this year...

Dept. of Public Instruction: State supt. praises bipartisan deal to invest in Wisconsin kids and schools, urges continue...

MADISON — State Superintendent Dr. Jill Underly today issued a statement in response to Gov. Tony Evers’ and GOP leaders’ bipartisan deal to invest in Wisconsin’s kids and schools....

Dept. of Revenue: Collections, April FY2026

General Purpose Revenue (GPR) Collections Amounts in Thousands ($), rounded