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Governor Evers Fighting for Families and Standing Up to Republican Extremism Delivers Compromise State Budget

MADISON, Wis. — Early this morning, Governor Tony Evers signed the 2025-27 state budget. That Wisconsin now has a budget – after months of state legislative Republicans’ partisan political posturing, infighting, and multiple walkouts on negotiations – is a testament to Gov. Evers’ leadership and his commitment to doing his best to do right by […]

Wisconsinites Want Lower Costs, Property Tax Savings, Support for Public Schools. Assembly Republicans Do Not.

Republicans in the state Assembly rejected amendments to provide property tax savings, deliver lower costs for hard working Wisconsinites, support public education, clean up water pollution, support veterans and farmers, improve public safety, and more.

‘No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, and No’

Republicans in the state Senate had the same one word answer when given the chance to pass a better state budget for hard working Wisconsinites today: “No.”

Wisconsin Supreme Court Protects Abortion Rights, Affirms Wisconsinites’ Freedom to Make Own Medical Decisions

The Wisconsin State Supreme Court struck down efforts to use an 1849 law as a near-total abortion ban.

Ron Johnson Joins Senate GOP in Making Republicans’ Big Bad Budget Bill Even Worse

Ron Johnson and his fellow Republicans have taken a bad, unpopular bill and made it worse.

A Better Wisconsin Together Releases Statement on 2025-27 State Budget Agreement

Today’s announcement of a budget agreement that begins to address priorities like delivering cost savings for working families, supporting public schools and child care, and investing in health care is a testament to the hard work and dedication of Governor Evers and legislative Democrats.

A Better Wisconsin Together Releases Statement of Support for UW Nurses, SEIU Wisconsin

We stand in solidarity with UW nurses and SEIU Wisconsin in their pursuit of collective bargaining rights and the freedom to have a say in their workplace, and we applaud them for standing up and demanding their basic workplace rights be honored and recognized.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules to Protect Clean Water, Hold Polluters Accountable

In a 5-2 ruling released this morning, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided that Wisconsinites deserve clean water and corporate polluters who contaminate our waterways must be held accountable under the law. 

Wisconsin Republicans Failing to Do Most Pressing Job - Pass a State Budget

With one just week to go until the end of the state’s fiscal year and the deadline to pass a new state budget, Republican state lawmakers have no scheduled meetings for the budget writing Joint Committee on Finance and no action scheduled in either the Senate or Assembly to debate or vote on a state budget bill. The lack of legislative action comes on the heels of Senate Republicans walking out of budget talks with Gov. Tony Evers for a second time late last week.

Support for Abortion Rights Remains Strong in Wisconsin on Third Anniversary of MAGA U.S. Supreme Court Justices Overturning Roe v. Wade

On the third anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, and as polling continues to show that a majority of Wisconsin voters support safe and legal abortion care, A Better Wisconsin Together is urging Wisconsin Republicans to listen to their constituents and end their relentless attacks on our reproductive rights once and for all.