The new bill package offers an alternative to mild reforms proposed by the bipartisan racial disparities task force.
“I’m not trying to make headlines,” the senator claimed as he spread further misinformation and questioned the severity of the US Capitol insurrection.
No lead abatement. No expanded job training. No upgrade to an archaic unemployment system. Republican lawmakers say one-time pandemic relief funds should be used instead.
In flag-raising ceremony, Evers also signed executive orders to ban state money in “conversion therapy" and ensure inclusive language in state documents.
Eight in Wisconsin failed in 2018. Works Progress Administration-era structures are susceptible to more extreme weather as a nation debates what to invest in itself.
Legislators had been warned earlier that the aid from the American Rescue Plan is a supplement for struggling schools, not a substitute for state support.
Groups advocating for communities of color oppose current bills, demanding Democrats reject them. “Your scraps, your crumbs, are insulting,” said one advocate.
Discrimination and stigma put transgender youths at greater risk of mental health issues. Bills targeting them only seek “to marginalize people,” Sen. Kelda Roys says.
Only a handful of GOP lawmakers showed up to gavel in and gavel out a special session called by Gov. Evers.
On the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, one lawmaker says moderate change is “not appropriate for this moment in history.”
