Gov. Tony Evers planned to call on the Republican-controlled Legislature Tuesday to join him in passing a two-year budget he is presenting as a "bounce back" plan to help the state recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

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Gov. Tony Evers will propose more than $329 million in new economic development initiatives as part of his state budget proposal on Tuesday.

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Four bills pitched as reform measures for a state transportation department set to receive a funding increase advanced through an Assembly committee on Thursday.

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Wisconsin Republicans have rewritten Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' state budget in the past few weeks, pushing it through the Joint Finance Committee they control last week to set up floor votes in the full Legislature.

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The Legislature's Republican-controlled finance committee finished revising Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' state budget Thursday, wrapping up its work by pasting a $321 million income tax cut plan into the document.

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The Legislature's Republican-controlled finance committee finished revising Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' state budget Thursday, wrapping up its work by inserting a $321 million income tax cut plan into the spending plan.

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Republican lawmakers say they're still looking to build new state facilities to house juvenile offenders after Wisconsin's youth prison closes.

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Republicans on the Legislature's budget-writing committee approved money Tuesday to begin building a new prison in Green Bay but eliminated funding to construct new state facilities to house juvenile offenders after Wisconsin's troubled youth prison closes, shifting those dollars to counties and raising questions about the state's role in housing young offenders.

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The leader of the Wisconsin Senate says Republicans are planning to include a roughly $400 million middle class tax cut in the state budget.

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Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will be leading the national effort to call a convention to approve a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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