Serving Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Fond du Lac, and Calumet Counties

This Session

Here are a few highlights form this legislative session. For additional information, please visit the Legislature's website linked below.

Legislative Session 2025-26

 

 

 

 

 

 

2025-27 Wisconsin State Budget

The budget Governor Evers introduced earlier this spring was a flawed document. His recommendations would have raised taxes, expanded welfare, and turned a historic surplus into a record deficit. After months of hard work by the Joint Committee on Finance, we passed a budget (Senate Bill 45) that responsibly invests in core priorities and returns a record amount of money back to the taxpayers. 

Unfortunately, the governor chose to use his line item veto power. Here is the Legislative Fiscal Bureaus Summary of Provisions for Act 15, the State Budget signed into action. 

MAKING YOUR GOVERNMENT WORK FOR YOU

  • $1.5 billion in total tax relief
  • Cut more than 300 positions from state government
  • Substantive reform to the University of Wisconsin system including:
    • Extending the current position freeze to stop administrative bloat
    • Implementing a faculty workload requirement to get more resources into the classroom
    • Requiring systemwide credit transferability for general education requirements
  • $8 million cut to the UW general operations budget to offset more targeted investments
  • $1 million shift from DPI general operations to the JFC supplemental to right size the education bureaucracy
  • Prohibiting state employees from cashing out their compensatory time
  • $50 million General Purpose Revenue cut to the Medicaid cost-to-continue, to right-size the governor’s estimates. Total fiscal estimate of more than $250 million annually.
  • Two-year pilot program to ease the regulatory burden on child care centers to open more slots
  • Increased the state's reinsurance cap to reduce health insurance premiums
  • Eliminated the sales tax on residential electricity and natural gas 

 

WE ALSO REMOVED HUNDREDS OF ITEMS OF BAD POLICY FROM GOVERNOR EVERS RECOMMENDATONS

  • The governor's proposal to replace the word "mother" in statute with "inseminated person," was removed from the budget
  • The governor's budget recommendations would have increased taxes by more than $2.3 billion. We removed those increases.
  • We removed massive fee hikes on sportsmen and women 
  • Stopped soft on crime policies that would have let violent criminals out of prison early 
  • Governor Evers' recommendations would have put more people on welfare, we stopped his efforts.