MON PM Update: Evers vetoes $2.2 billion GOP tax plan

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers today vetoed a $2.2 billion GOP tax package, ripping it as a failure by Republican lawmakers to address the state’s most pressing issues. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg,

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Gov. Evers: Slams Republicans for gutting comprehensive workforce plan and failing to address state’s generational workforce challenges, prevent child care industry’s collapse

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today vetoed the GOP-amended September 2023 Special Session Senate Bill 1 in its entirety and slammed Republicans in the Wisconsin State Legislature for failing to seriously and meaningfully address one of the state’s most pressing challenges—a shrinking workforce that has plagued Wisconsin for a decade. Gov. Eve…

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Dave Zweifel: GOP created UW funding crisis

Rather than help these campuses with even a modicum of funding, they’d use the state’s healthy surplus to give wealthy taxpayers several thousands of dollars in tax cuts when they could be helping young people attend campuses in their districts.

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MON PM Update: Evers vetoes $2.2 billion GOP tax plan

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers today vetoed a $2.2 billion GOP tax package, ripping it as a failure by Republican lawmakers to address the state’s most pressing issues. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, fired back the Dem guv had again rejected meaningful tax

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MKE Works Inc.: To state Senate: The Brewers aren’t leaving 

Milwaukee, WI – The stadium subsidy debate is premised on a fallacy – that the Brewers will pick up and leave town if the Legislature doesn’t buckle to their extortionary demands. This fallacy was reiterated by Senator Feyen on UpFront this weekend, “It’s great that the Brewers are willing to

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U.S. Sens. Baldwin, Kaine, Van Hollen: Lead colleagues in calling for immediate steps to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza and protect civilians

WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) led their colleagues in urging President Biden to work with Israel and international partners to implement a plan that will protect innocent civilian life in Gaza, deliver sustained humanitarian aid, and work toward the

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Dept. of Natural Resources: Seeking public comment for environmental review of the Village of Mattoon and City of New Holstein Safe Drinking Water Loan Program projects

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced the city of New Holstein and the village of Mattoon are applicants for funding through the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program (SDWLP) to improve their respective public drinking water systems. New Holstein is planning to replace watermains on Wisconsin

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Reps. Clancy, Ratcliff: Transgender Parent and Non-Binary Advocacy Caucus honors transgender community on Trans Remembrance Day

(MADISON) – Transgender Day of Remembrance is an annual observance, begun in 1999, as a vigil to honor Rita Hester, a transgender woman killed in 1998. On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, Co-Chair Representative Melissa Ratcliff (D-Cottage Grove), released the following statement: “Today, we honor the memory of transgender people

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Dept. of Justice: AG Kaul joins CFPB and 10 states in securing an order requiring prehired to provide students more than $30 million in relief for allegedly illegal student lending practices

MADISON, Wis. – Attorney General Josh Kaul along with 10 states and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced today that Prehired will provide more than $30 million in relief to student borrowers, for allegedly making false promises of job placement, trapping students with income share loans that violated the

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The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party: Gallagher leads letter to congressional leadership seeking support as Chinese military aggression mounts

WASHINGTON, DC – Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and six other members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party wrote to congressional leadership Sunday, arguing that Congress must match its funding priorities to the nation’s most pressing national security priority– deterring the Chinese Communist Party. Reps. Rob Wittman (R-VA),

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Gov. Evers: Slams Republicans for gutting comprehensive workforce plan and failing to address state’s generational workforce challenges, prevent child care industry’s collapse

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today vetoed the GOP-amended September 2023 Special Session Senate Bill 1 in its entirety and slammed Republicans in the Wisconsin State Legislature for failing to seriously and meaningfully address one of the state’s most pressing challenges—a shrinking workforce that has plagued Wisconsin for a decade. Gov. Eve… Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t

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Gov. Evers: Urges GOP-controlled JFC to release already-approved funds to Bad River and Lac du Flambeau Native Nations

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today directed the Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA) to submit a formal request to the Republican-controlled Joint Committee on Finance (JFC) to release $2 million in already-approved funding for Tribal Assistance Grants—which are funded by Tribal gaming revenue—that Republicans on the Committee are withholding from

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Dept. of Natural Resources: Celebrates successful 2023 elk hunting season

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is celebrating a successful elk hunting season. The state’s sixth elk hunting season opened Saturday, Oct. 14 and closed Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023, as a result of all four state licensed hunters filling their harvest authorizations. The four hunters who participated

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Dave Zweifel: GOP created UW funding crisis

Rather than help these campuses with even a modicum of funding, they’d use the state’s healthy surplus to give wealthy taxpayers several thousands of dollars in tax cuts when they could be helping young people attend campuses in their districts.

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