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Democratic Gov. Tony Evers refused to rule out the possibility of vetoing the entire state budget that's currently being written by a Republican-controlled legislative committee.

Republicans who control the Legislature seem to want no part of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' special session to expand Medicaid programs in Wisconsin.

In this week’s Capitol Notes conversation, Marti Mikkelson asks JR Ross of wispolitics.com if he thinks Gov. Tony Evers will stop providing the extra $300 in federally-funded unemployment benefits.

Wisconsin voters with disabilities urged lawmakers on Wednesday to reconsider two Republican-backed bills passed by the state Senate that would make it more difficult to cast absentee ballots as part of the broader GOP push to make it harder to vote by mail following Donald Trump's defeat.

Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature will begin to craft a budget of their own, after they removed nearly 400 policy items from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' proposed budget. GOP leaders have indicated that their version of the budget may include a tax cut.

Vice President Kamala Harris is due in southeastern Wisconsin Tuesday afternoon. She's expected to promote the Biden administration's economic development agenda during a visit to UW-Milwaukee.

As the race for Wisconsin state superintendent heats up, WUWM’s Marti Mikkelson talks with JR Ross of wispolitics.com about what he expects to see moving forward in the race.

Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin denied Monday that he made racist comments last week when he said he wasn't concerned about pro-Donald Trump insurrectionists at the U.S. Capitol in January but would have been worried if they were Black Lives Matters protesters.

Critics again called on him to resign, as they did a few weeks ago when Johnson said the riot at the Capitol “didn’t seem like an armed insurrection” to him. There have been repeated calls for a while for Johnson to step down.

It's been four months of nearly non-stop controversy for Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson. He has been a key supporter of former President Donald…