On June 6, 2025, WisconsinEye’s Rewind featured WisPolitics.com Editor JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk to review this week in state politics. (Brought to you by the Wisconsin Realtors Association). On this week’s episode: Budget talks break down Joint Finance takes the reins U.S. Department of Justice threatens WEC Wikler, Loudenbeck give updates on the state parties at WisPol […]
On June 6, 2025, top manufacturing leaders hosted a teleconference to discuss the need for the Senate to pass the tax bill that includes the pre-manufacturing policies in the House bill—while making targeted changes to preserve strategic manufacturing and energy incentives—before the July 4 recess. They outlined the economic consequences for Wisconsin if Congress fails […]
On June 5, 2025, WisPolitics hosted a luncheon featuring a discussion with the two major state party chairs. Ben Wikler is leaving his Democratic Party chair post, with his successor set to be elected when Democrats gather at their state convention later in June. Former State Rep. Amy Loudenbeck (2013-2023) filled in for GOP state chair Brian […]
On June 2, 2025, Congressman Mark Pocan (WI-02) and Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI-04) hosted a virtual news conference to discuss what they saw when they toured the only ICE detention facility in Wisconsin. Pocan and Moore were conducting congressional oversight by investigating the facility in Dodge County, Wisconsin. Following brief remarks from Reps. Pocan and […]
On May 29, 2025, the Assembly Committee on Financial Institutions will hold a public hearing on Clearinghouse Rule 24-049 Relating to the authorization of one or more additional fee structures and establishing maximum fees or charges that may be made thereunder by adjustment service companies, and modifying chapter DFI-Bkg 73 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code […]
On May 28, 2025, the Assembly Committee on Energy and Utilities held a public hearing on Assembly Bill 59 Relating to: the use of federal capitalization grant funds for lead service line replacement.
On May 28, 2025, the Senate Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development held a public hearing on Senate Bill 280 Relating to: interest earned on coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin’s top ranking Republican, was the guest speaker at a Newsmaker luncheon on May 28, 2025 hosted by the Milwaukee Press Club and WisPolitics.com. Johnson spoke briefly and then took questions from a panel of journalists as well as questions from the audience. Video Courtesy of WisPolitics.com. The media panel: Charles […]
On May 27, 2025, Democratic members of the Joint Committee on Finance held a news conference responding to Wisconsin Republicans working in concert with their Federal counterparts on actions towards cutting public services and taxes.
Early this morning, the United States House of Representatives passed the budget reconciliation bill with a set of proposals to cut funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), costing Wisconsin taxpayers approximately $314 million each year. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has started to analyze how these cuts would impact all Wisconsinites. […]
On May 17, 2025, WisGOP Chairman Brian Schimming and U.S. Congressman Derrick Van Orden (R-3rd CD) spoke to members of the media at the 2025 Republican Party of Wisconsin state convention. Video Courtesy: WISC-TV
