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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.

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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. 

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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. 

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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.

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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? 

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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. 

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A Better Wisconsin Together Statements on Trump Regime’s Arrest of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan

Today’s Trump-ordered arrest of Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan is a blatant attack on our freedoms and the integrity of our judicial system, and an alarming escalation of Trump and his allies’ hostile takeover of our government. 

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As Trump Tariffs Hike Costs, Wisconsin Republicans Vote to Make it Harder for Wisconsin Families to Make Ends Meet

As Trump’s tariffs continue to threaten Wisconsin’s economy and thousands of Wisconsin jobs are on the line due to the Trump Administration’s mass layoffs, state Republicans have yet to stand up for Wisconsin families or produce a plan that will make life more affordable for constituents.

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A Better Wisconsin Together Applauds Wisconsin Supreme Court Decision Upholding Public School Funding

Today, Republicans’ effort to starve Wisconsin schools of funding and take away Governor Evers’ constitutionally protected partial veto powers, while giving more power to themselves, has failed. 

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Black Maternal Health Week 2025: A Better Wisconsin Together Calls on Lawmakers to Address Black Maternal Health in New State Budget

As we close out Black Maternal Health Week 2025 (April 11 – April 17), A Better Wisconsin Together is calling on lawmakers to address the stark racial disparities in healthcare access for mothers and babies in Wisconsin by passing a state budget that would make Wisconsin a safer place for Black women, mothers, and children.