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View Comments MADISON - Wisconsin schools could lose $2.3 billion in federal funding under budget action by the Legislatures Republican-controlled finance committee — nearly $1 billion more that could be lost in pandemic relief aid than previously believed.  Republican lawmakers writing the states next two-year state spending plan last month allocated an additional $128 million for K-12 schools, far below a state spending threshold required under federal relief laws that provide schools with...

Wisconsin ranks near the bottom of states—45th out of 50—in harnessing money from Uncle Sam, according to The Pew Charitable Trusts. So why is the Republican-run Legislature—again—risking if not snubbing federal dollars from Washington that taxpayers here deserve, given all the money Wisconsin residents pay the IRS? It doesn’t make fiscal or common sense. The Legislature’s budget committee is playing a potentially costly political game by failing to abide by federa...

Following “unprecedented” tax collections, Wisconsin is projected to take in $4.4 billion more than what was previously estimated in general fund tax revenue by mid-2023, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau reported Tuesday. While the new projections open up massive opportunities as the GOP-led budget committee looks to finalize the 2021-23 biennial budget by the end of the month, leaders in both parties are already divided on how those funds should be spent. Gov. Tony Evers has...

$1 billion less than Evers budget for state, UW System projects. //end headline wrapper ?> Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee A building under construction along University Ave. on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. (Photo by Bill Martens/WPR) Republican lawmakers on the state Legislature’s budget committee voted Tuesday evening to approve $1.5 billion of Gov. Tony Evers’ $2.4 billion plan for state construction projects, including roughly $629 million of ...

Fiscal bureau projects far more tax revenue than expected for 2021-2023.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Legislature's budget-writing committee scrapped Gov. Tony Evers' plan Wednesday to hand the Department of Workforce Development $15 million to improve how it administers unemployment benefits.

Flickr Republicans rejected a proposal from Gov. Tony Evers to give the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development $15 million to improve administration of unemployment benefits, suggesting instead he direct federal aid money to the department. Republicans who control the Legislatures budget-writing committee scrapped Gov. Tony Evers plan Wednesday to hand the Department of Workforce Development $15 million to improve how it administers unemployment benefits. The agency has been plagued by...

Republicans in State Legislature vote down $15 million to fix unemployment system.

Wisconsin Republicans block medical marijuana - again TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Legislature’s powerful budget-writing committee again blocked a Democratic attempt Wednesday to legalize marijuana for medical use. The GOP stripped a provision legalizing medical marijuana from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ 2021-23 budget last month as the party erased hundreds of his proposals from the spending plan. Democrats on the ...

Republicans on the committee also rejected for the second time a Democratic proposals to legalize medical marijuana in the state as well as a measure that would have spent $40