Lawmakers Try to Push Remaining Priorities on Last Day of Session

Budget negotiations between Gov. Tony Evers, legislative Republicans collapse

Months of state budget negotiations between Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican lawmakers have fallen apart.

Lawmakers try to push remaining priorities on last day of session

Lawmakers scrambled to push their priorities Wednesday as the legislative session approached it’s end. The session takes a hard stop at midnight, at which time all debate ends and any bills remaining on the House and Senate calendars are dead. “As I’ve said every year, at some point when you get to the last day – there’s just not enough...