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WI Joint Finance Committee hosts listening session on proposed budget WI Joint Finance Committee hosts listening session on proposed budget The Joint Finance Committee has one goal during Friday’s session – listen to the public’s concerns about the proposed state budget.  This first listening session played out at UW-Whitewater. WHITEWATER, Wis. - The Joint Finance Committee has one goal during Friday’s session – listen to the public’s concerns about the proposed state budget.�...

MADISON - Republicans who control the state Legislature are introducing nearly a dozen bills to spend more than $3 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funding before knowing whether their plans are legal, which could cause the state to forfeit some of the federal dollars coming to Wisconsin if the spending is ultimately not allowed. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers controls the federal funds, but Republican lawmakers are urging him to sign their legislation that spends $3.3 billion — slightly mo...

Wisconsin Examiner JFC lawmakers snub restoring worker rights and shrug off workforce development Science in HD | Unsplash Republicans who wield the majority in the state Legislature have already proclaimed they will throw out Gov. Tony Evers’ second budget, cutting and pasting the state’s spending plan into something more to their liking. And at a hearing Tuesday on provisions that affect people who work and the people who employ them, GOP lawmakers kept their scissors in full vie...

Wisconsin Examiner Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor says goodbye State Superintendent of Public Instruction Carolyn Stanford Taylor testifies before the Legislatures Joint Finance Committee on April 6, 2021 (Screenshot | WisconsinEye) The co-chairs of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee launched the first in a series of biennial budget agency briefings on Tuesday with an aggressive attack on Gov. Tony Evers’ entire budget proposal. The Evers budget is “irresponsible” Sen....

A memo released Tuesday by the Legislature’s nonpartisan budget office showed a wide range between districts when it came to how much of that federal funding they received, with Milwaukee Public Schools receiving roughly $797 million or $11,242 per pupil. State Sen. Howard Marklein, R-Spring Green, one of the co-chairs of the budget committee, said that was more than five times as large as the $2,213 per pupil in federal funds going to Lancaster Community Schools in his Senate district. Dur...

11 Republican bills try to dictate how governor allocates federal pandemic aid. //end headline wrapper ?> Wisconsin State Capitol. File photo by Dave Reid. The federal government is shipping $3.2 billion in stimulus money to Wisconsin and Gov. Tony Evers and the Republican-controlled Legislature have dueling visions on how to spend it and who should control the purse strings. The Republican Legislature began hearings Tuesday on a series of bills, introduced late Friday, that are made up of pi...

Republicans warned their spending plan for Wisconsins federal COVID stimulus funds may not be allowed Molly Beck and Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © Michael Sears, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Rep. Mark Born, R-Beaver Dam, sits on the Legislatures joint finance committee. MADISON - Republicans who control the state Legislature are introducing nearly a dozen bills to spend more than $3 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funding before knowing whether their plans ...

Milwaukees public schools will receive more than a third of the $2.2 billion in federal relief funding being sent to Wisconsin classrooms to navigate and recover from the coronavirus pandemic.  The $797 million allocated for Milwaukee amounts to $11,242 per student — the second-highest distribution of COVID-19 relief funding. On the lowest end, the McFarland School District in suburban Madison will receive $107 per student, according to an analysis released by the nonpartisan Legislative Fis...

Republicans on a state legislature committee voted Wednesday to push through a bill that would give Wisconsin lawmakers more control over the spending of federal Covid-19 relief dollars.

Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul worked Wednesday to persuade Republican lawmakers to let him spend nearly $925,000 to upgrade crime lab technology