Molly Beck

2 days ago | jsonline.com | Molly Beck

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said the GOP would discuss ways to craft the budget in a way that reduces ways for Evers to use his partial veto authority. The step is a reaction to an unusual partial veto Evers used in the last budget that extended funding increases for schools for 402 years. The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently upheld that Evers veto. MADISON - Republicans who control the state Legislature are considering a host of options to get around Democratic Gov.

2 days ago | postcrescent.com | Molly Beck

Senators voted 32-1 to pass a bill authored by Republicans that would allow low-income mothers who make more than the poverty level to stay on BadgerCare PlusWisconsin is one of only two states that does not offer a full year of Medicaid coverage to certain low-income mothers after they give birth. The bill still needs passage in the state Assembly, where Speaker Robin Vos says he remains opposed but may allow the bill to come to a vote on the floor.

3 days ago | greenbaypressgazette.com | Molly Beck

Molly BeckMilwaukee Journal SentinelGov. Tony Evers and legislative leaders met in March to discuss whether the two Republican houses of the state Legislature and the Democratic governor could hash out details of a new tax plan. Such collaboration has been rare throughout the last six years of divided government. Lawmakers and Evers have about a $4 billion budget surplus to spend. MADISON – Democratic Gov.

6 days ago | greenbaypressgazette.com | Molly Beck

Molly BeckMilwaukee Journal SentinelMADISON – A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld an unusual partial veto Gov. Tony Evers deployed in 2023 to lock in school funding increases for four centuries.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Molly Beck

MADISON – A routine meeting of the Wisconsin Elections Commission erupted into a shouting match Thursday after one member attempted to discuss Milwaukee officials temporarily running out of ballots during the April 1 election. Commission chairwoman Ann Jacobs, a Democrat, threatened to eject Republican commissioner Bob Spindell for bringing up a topic that was not on the meeting's agenda and refusing to stop after she ruled the comment out of order.