These guys take their marching orders from Dear Leader Vos. The budget hearings are strictly performative.

 

Headline:  Monroe Times, 6/1/2025

The joint organizations represent folks from northern Wisconsin to Milwaukee from rural, suburban and urban areas. We work on a variety of issues, including voting rights, conservation, labor, and more. We engage Wisconsinites of all ages, races, and backgrounds. 

As voters, we expect accountability. Ahead of the budget, nearly 1,000 Wisconsinites showed up and spoke out in overwhelming support of funding for education, healthcare, childcare, and more. Instead of listening to those who vote them into office and pay their salaries, the leaders of the JFC cut 612 provisions from the proposed budget. 

For years now, the legislature has butchered the proposed budget, shut down compromise, and ignored voters’ common interests, all in the name of ‘scarcity’ to justify their unpopular moves. 

Our money is taken from us and never returned. 

Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: Wisconsin has a budget surplus of $4.3 billion. The idea that our state lacks the resources or money for well-funded schools, public health, child care, elections, public safety, or clean water is a convenient narrative for corporations, billionaires, and the lawmakers who prioritize them over the people.

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