Wisconsin's budget picture improved by nearly $2.9 billion with a revised forecast released Tuesday driven by higher-than-expected tax collections that will force the Republican-controlled Legislature to decide whether to spend the surplus, save it or put it toward tax cuts.

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Gov. Tony Evers said Thursday that he hasn't met with Republican legislative leaders to discuss his $91 billion state budget proposal because he's listening to what the people of Wisconsin want and that GOP lawmakers should do the same.

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Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos called on the state's business community to "step up" and return workers to offices around the Fourth of July, joining Wednesday with the state Senate's top Republican in praising the state's coronavirus vaccination efforts.

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The leader of Democrats in the Wisconsin Senate said Wednesday that county voters who reject raising local sales taxes "aren't smart," a comment she stood by during the panel discussion but later called a "poor choice of words."

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The Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature are considering ending the statewide mask mandate designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus and could do so by passing a resolution as soon as next week.

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Wisconsin's State Senate move forward on Tuesday with a revised COVID-19 relief bill in attempt at reaching a compromise with Gov. Tony Evers and shielding businesses from lawsuits over their handling of the virus.

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The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature is divided on a coronavirus-response bill that the state Assembly was passing on Thursday but that the Senate GOP leader said his chamber is opposed to.

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Republicans who control the Wisconsin Senate won't take up any COVID-19 relief measures before January, the incoming majority leader said Wednesday, even though Assembly Republicans have said they're open to coming in this month and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has urged swift action before federal money runs out.

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Gov. Tony Evers and Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos are describing their Friday meeting to discuss coronavirus relief measures as productive.

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New Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu removed long-time budget committee co-chair Alberta Darling from her leadership post on the panel Wednesday.

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