Cost Savings for Families and Protections for Consumers Blocked by Republicans in State Legislature
These latest missed opportunities come on the heels of Republican legislative leaders’ walkout of budget discussions with Gov. Tony Evers last week.
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Wisconsin Republicans Abandon Their Jobs and Wisconsin Families
By storming out of state budget negotiations and refusing to find bipartisan compromise, Wisconsin Republicans are abandoning more than just their jobs. They’re abandoning Wisconsin families at an already uncertain time.
A Better Wisconsin Together Releases Statement of Support for Meriter Nurses
We stand in solidarity with the nearly 1,000 SEIU Meriter Hospital nurses who are standing up for workplace and patient safety, fair wages, and more
OP-ED: Wisconsin Republicans Leaving Veterans Behind
Wisconsin Republican Congressman Derrick Van Orden recently made headlines for saying he hopes funding continues to be cut at the Department of Veterans Affairs - and he certainly isn’t the only Wisconsin Republican attacking care for veterans in the Badger State.
A Better Wisconsin Together Calls on Republicans to Support Plan to Save Child Care for Working Families
Just two weeks after Republican lawmakers cut over $400 million in essential child care funding from Governor Evers’ state budget, and one week after child care providers rallied at our state Capitol demanding action, A Better Wisconsin Together is urging GOP legislators to finally do the right thing and pass child care legislation introduced today by their Democratic colleagues.
ICYMI: Senior Senate Republican Calls for Wisconsin GOP to Skip Out on State Budget Duty
Republican State Senator Steve Nass, one of the longest tenured GOP representatives in the Wisconsin State Legislature, took petty partisan politics to a new low today by calling on his colleagues in the legislature to skip out on their jobs and not pass a state budget this year.
Republicans Put Politics Over People in Vote to Remove Over 600 Items from State Budget
Today, Wisconsin Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee voted to erase more than 600 items from state budget consideration, including widely popular provisions that would help working families deal with rising costs, feed hungry kids, fully fund our public schools, and ensure every household in Wisconsin has access to quality affordable health care, child care, clean water, and more.
Wisconsin Republicans Plot to Remove Hundreds of Popular Items From State Budget Consideration
The provisions Republicans are poised to strip would help working families in Wisconsin deal with rising costs, make childcare more affordable, lower prescription drug costs, fund our public schools while holding the line on property taxes, feed hungry kids, keep our communities safe from lead poisoning, bring more revenue into the state, and much more.
OP-ED: Time to Find Out if Wisconsin Republicans Will Put People Over Partisan Politics
Republicans have said Governor Evers’ budget proposal is “dead on arrival” and indicated they plan to throw it out and start from scratch. Now that they’ve heard hours of public testimony from Wisconsinites saying they support the governor’s budget, will they listen?
OP-ED: 100 Days In, Here’s How Trump Has Harmed Wisconsin Communities – And What We Can Do About It
From reckless tariffs that are raising our cost of living and hurting local farmers, to ripping jobs away from thousands of Wisconsin workers and cutting off funding that ensures kids have food to eat and families have healthcare - in its first 100 days, the Trump regime wasted no time causing real harm to Wisconsin families and communities.