Walker, Ryan, Priebus pushed business-friendly policies. The result: an abysmal failure. By Dan Shafer - May 12th, 2021 03:47 pm //end headline wrapper ?> Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee In 2017, the big players in the “Cheesehead Revolution” gathered at the Trump White House to celebrate the state landing the Foxconn deal. Photo via White House archives. There was a certain inevitably to the news that the state of Wisconsin had finalized a renegotiated contract with Foxconn. This was a long time coming. Donald Trump called it the “eighth wonder of the world.” The deal the Taiwanese manufacturing giant struck was to build one specific kind of LCD screen, and in the year between July 2017 when Wisconsin landed the deal and when work on the project officially began, Foxconn chose to build something else.